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September 1, 2006

Laura Ingraham - Nasrallah in Hiding

by Ferdinand T Cat

Laura Ingraham made an excellent point on today's broadcast about Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Where is this great leader? If these men are such great heroes and great fighters, whether it's bin Laden or whether it's Nasrallah, why are they constantly in hiding. What are they afraid of? If this vision of Islam is so powerful, you don't need to hide underground. If you really believe in jihad, then bring it on. Bring on the jihad, and do it yourself. Don't recruit these misguided and vulnerable, and whacked-out adherents to your philosophy to do the dirty work. Do it yourself. I am so sick of people in the West inflating the stature of people like Nasrallah... They are cowards, and if they weren't cowards, they would be out. They wouldn't be delivering, surreptitiously, audio tapes and video tapes to Al-Jazeera.

Commentary below the fold.

There is a reason bin Laden and Nasrallah have to hide, and it's because they are not soliders in a holy war, they are terrorists. Despite all the security around them, there's no secrecy as to the whereabouts of George W. Bush or Ehud Olmert. These men, no matter what you think of them, are acting under the cover of law and in the name of a people who have the option of throwing them out of office if they're displeased.

It's no secret that Iran is helping Hezbollah, and in a sane universe it would be Iran and not Lebanon that suffered for an act of war committed on foreign soil. Unfortunately, the idea that you punish a terrorist's sponsors for acts of terrorism is called the Bush Doctrine, and in the upper reaches of the modern media culture it's considered a huge mistake.

In the absence of the Bush Doctrine, terrorists are no longer instruments of policy, they are criminals who get away with mass murder and kidnapping by going into hiding among civilian populations. In order to protect ourselves from these people, we have to live in a constant state of fear, building bomb shelters and getting searched at airports.

The Bush Doctrine offered us a way out of this endless cycle of tightening security by giving the state sponsors of terrorism a reason to be afraid. The only way to get that back is to win in Iraq, and we won't win in Iraq until we convince criminals like Nasrallah that we're not going to cut and run.

Make sure all your friends understand this before they vote this November.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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So true CC..hiding like rats...Keep burnin the light of Truth. :)..and hey thanks for the link!


Posted by: Angel [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 2, 2006 8:31 PM

As emotionally satisfying as it is to make such arguments, they are flawed. The suicide bomber may be religiously conditioned to sacrifice his life, but he does not want that sacrifice to be wasteful. To blow oneself up is to state that one can further the Jihad in no better way.

The fugitive leadership know that they can hurt us more if they remain alive than if they strap on a bomb belt themselves. So they send out the peons instead, while they do the hard organizational work.

We must not underestimate our enemy. They are not cowards. From their mindset, attacking the helpless is not cowardice, it is effective strategy.

A related kind of underestimation gives rise to the fallacy that the United States cannot lose, and therefore has more to fear from our own government than from Islam. Don't fall into this trap.


Posted by: Mastiff at September 4, 2006 2:39 AM

"...the idea that you punish a terrorist's sponsors for acts of terrorism is called the Bush Doctrine..."

And by the continued survival of Saudi Arabia, we know Bush to be a heretic where his own doctrine is concerned.


Posted by: David at September 4, 2006 1:16 PM

David, you are correct, at least from the point where we find ourselves now. If Iraq and Lebanon were viewed as victories for the West, then Saudi Arabia and Iran would be wondering if they're next, and that would be a sobering influence. The question is how to make that happen.


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