John wants America to stick our collective heads in the sand
Check out wat Lileks had to say about Kerry's Terrorism as a nuisance statement. Someone gimme "Hallelujah."
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A nuisance?
I don’t want the definition of success of terrorism to be
“it isn’t on the rise.” I want the definition of success to be “free democratic
states in the Middle East and the cessation of support of those governments and
fascist states we haven’t gotten around to kicking in the ass yet.” I want the
definition of success to mean a free Lebanon and free Iran and a Saudi Arabia
that realizes there’s no point in funding the fundies. An Egypt that stops
pouring out the Jew-hatred as a form of political novacaine to keep the citizens
from turning their ire on their own government. I want the definition of success
to mean that Europe takes a stand against the Islamicist radicals in their midst
before the Wahabbi poison is the only acceptable strain on the continent.
Mosquito bites are a nuisance. Cable outages are a nuisance. Someone shooting up
a school in Montana or California or Maine on behalf of the brave martyrs of
Fallujah isn't a nuisance. It's war.
But that's not the key phrase. This
matters: We have to get back to the place we were.
But when we were
there we were blind. When we were there we losing. When we were there we died.
We have to get back to the place we were. We have to get back to 9/10? We have
to get back to the place we were. So we can go through it all again? We have to
get back to the place we were. And forget all we’ve learned and done? We have to
get back to the place we were. No. I don’t want to go back there. Planes into
towers. That changed the terms. I am remarkably disinterested in returning to a
place where such things are unimaginable. Where our nighmares are their
dreams.We have to get back to the place we were. No. We have to go the
place where they are. "

