{"id":62824,"date":"2015-11-15T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62824"},"modified":"2015-11-15T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T18:48:35","slug":"ignoring-the-realities-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62824","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring the realities of terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I saw some BS article somewhere in which some goober actually said that if you ask any veteran of any real military experience, he’ll tell you that global warming or climate change or whatever it’s called today is our most pressing national security problem. I guess that’s why Bernie Sanders said it last night, according to Talking Point Memo<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you’re going to see counties all over the world…they’re going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops, and you’re going to see all kinds of international conflict,” Sanders said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s because the socialists and the Marxists all think the whole of world history is just a record of economic struggle. They can’t stray too far into the influence of other factors like radical religious ideology, otherwise they start losing credibility. <\/p>\n

I really did try to read this load of feces at the Salon<\/a> about how we caused Islamic terrorism, but I guess I’m just a little too intolerant of idiots today.<\/p>\n

As soon as the news of the attacks broke, even though there was no evidence and practically nothing was known about the attackers, a Who\u2019s Who of right-wing pundits immediately latched on to the violence as an opportunity to demonize Muslims and refugees from Muslim-majority countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only evidence that most of the world needed was the fact that the attack on Paris closely resembled the attack on Mumbai a few short years ago. Well, that and the fact tha the only people who cause destruction in the Paris neighborhoods are those “French youths of African descent” that we read about whenever there is a rampage in the streets of the City of Lights.<\/p>\n

Every time Islamic extremists carry out an attack, the world\u2019s 1.6 billion Muslims are expected to collectively apologize; it has become a cold clich\u00e9 at this point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, not “every time”, but just once would be nice.<\/p>\n

Demonstrating how right-wing and Islamic extremist logic intersect, ISIS actually favorably cited the black-and-white worldview shared ironically by both former President George W. Bush and his intractable foe, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. ISIS wrote: \u201cAs Shaykh Usamah Ibn Ladin said, \u2018The world today is divided into two camps. Bush spoke the truth when he said, \u201cEither you are with us or you are with the terrorists.\u201d Meaning, either you are with the crusade or you are with Islam.’\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No. What President Bush actually said was “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” You didn’t need to change a word of what he actually said to understand his meaning.<\/p>\n

That’s where I stopped reading the Salon piece that says that we caused the attack on Paris. Those are the people hoping to put Clinton, Sanders or O’Malley in the White House. People who ignore the real causes of terrorism for their intellectually shallow political agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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