March 28, 2008
Fitna. . .
--Jason
UPDATE: As you can see above, the "religion of peace" has issued threats to LiveLeak to suppress the movie. (UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: LiveLeak restored the video and it's now available again. For background and more details, click here.)
It's still available (for the moment) via Google Video, so watch it now before it's gone down the memory hole.
-JC
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February 11, 2008
Warfare. . .
What we are witnessing in Britain, France and elsewhere throughout the world is quite simply. . .warfare. A new unconventional type of warfare being conducted against nations by a decentralized coalition of non-state and state-supported entities.
This is why I support the language used to describe this war even though the left wants to lament about the phrasing of "War on Terror".
When the histories of this period are written, the "youths", "al-queda'ist", "jihadis", etc. will have a different term applied to them; it's also likely that this war will no longer be the WOT but be replaced by a more "appropriate" moniker. Probably something like World War 3,4 or 5.
It's a war people. What have you done to support Democracy against the Caliphate today? Me, not so much, but maybe, in some small way, this post is doing just that.
--Jason
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December 11, 2007
Hard News. . .
Taken from the comments:
Odd. But it makes me think of a monkey with a handgun…..locomotivebreath1901 on December 11, 2007 at 8:51 PM
Lord help us all if it ever figures out the safety.Frozen Tex on December 11, 2007 at 9:10 PM
--Jason
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October 8, 2006
It's long since past the time. . .
That we should just start referring to this as
Look folks, it's time, we've got ideologies out there that are directly opposed to everything the sane people of the world have been working for since the end of the last worldwide conflict. Islamic Fasism and Personality Cult Communism are threats to FREEDOM, LIBERTY, and HUMANITY. It's time to stop pussyfooting around and just start calling this what it is.
Condi needs to get her butt over to China ASAP and get the Chinese to take the role of the Soviets in WW2 and lead on getting North Korea under control, the U.S. and it's allies need to get on the ball with Iran and end that threat sooner rather than later. If Chavez makes a stink, unleash Brazil on him and give them everything they need to finish him off too.
In the modern age, the world seems to have these conflicts every 50 years or so as a sort of re-alignment of mankinds direction forward. No rational person will advocate for Islamic Fascism to become a ruling power for the world, neither will a rational person advocate Personality Cult Communism as a positive way forward. It's time to recognize that certain ideologies are failed ideologies and remove them from the playing field.
I'm going to add to this the Democrats better get on board with being Americans and realize that we've got to end this petty BS and get busy with making the world safe for humankind.
Blockade NK immediately, slap the sanctions on Iran, and let's start getting rid of the nutcases. If the U.N. doesn't want to go the way of the League of Nations in short order, they'd better get on the ball too.
--Jason
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October 2, 2006
Some people wont agree with me. . .
Some people won't agree with me, but I'm pretty sure that I'm right on this one. One day, most probably in my lifetime, there will be a terrorist attack involving a nuclear device, or a rogue state will use a nuclear device as a first strike weapon hoping to bring about a one hit coup de grace.
Some people will completely deny this as an impossibility, they will state that groups capable of producing a nuclear device will understand it's implications and only use such a device as a "deterrent". Others will claim that I am being alarmist and armageddonist, and totally dimiss this idea on that basis alone; without addressing the probability of such an attack, they merely will stick their heads in the sand. Still others will claim that such an event will only occur by the hands of the evil Zionists or equally evil Americans, which is simply ridiculous because neither nation needs a nuke to lay waste to their enemies, both groups can defeat almost any comer with conventional means quite easily from a military standpoint.
There is a sect within Islam that sees the use of a nuclear device as a means to bring about the reappearance of the 12th Imam, who will organize the world along Islamic lines and bring about the Koran's version of Biblical Revelations. There are groups, lets call them Islamists for simplicity, but recognize that they are known also as Islamic Fascists, Islamofascists, or elements of Radical Islam, and some of these groups have openly stated their desire to acquire a nuclear device, or a hybridized device (dirty bomb) for the intent of using it upon the United States, Israel or the nations of Western Europe with the stated purpose of destroying these institutions and jumpstarting the Second Caliphate. Other entities may "pop a nuke" as a last gasp of power concentrated in a select group of insane rulers (North Korea). Then there is the unknown, the threat of tomorrow, the threat we don't see at the moment, but nevertheless grows in dark corners of the world, biding it's time, waiting for the geopolictical climate to be right.
If you sit back and think about it, it's basically inevitable that sometime in the future these weapons will be used. The effect will be great and depending on the target, the results will range from destruction and horror quickly passing and settling into rage and revenge, at the other end of the scale, nations could fall within hours or simply cease to effectively exist (Israel could be an example, so could Great Britain or any other country with a small geographic footprint).
The device will most likely be small, in the kiloton range, not a city killer megaton nuke, but a man-portable "tactical" weapon used deep within a society to produce a profound strategic effect. There may be just one, which will be bad enough to deal with, but there most likely will be more than one, near simultaneously, or in a quick succession of a few days.
Some people will have already stopped reading because they can't handle thinking about such a possibility. I suggest that these people are more likely than not, the same people who would suggest that WE need to change in order to stop THEM from attacking us. That WE cannot fight THEM, because WE cannot change THEM, so WE must change and be kindler, gentler, and more accomodating to those who would wish US dead. To me, this seems like total insanity run amuck. It just doesn't make sense. If WE change, THEY will be emboldened. If WE change, THEY win, and their victory does not ensure our safety, in fact it only assures that another group will arise with another agenda to demand that WE change for THEM.
I don't have any answers, I don't have any program to make this all go away. I can only observe that it will happen, someday. Someone WILL use a nuclear device on a unsuspecting population sometime in the relatively near future. The only suggestion I have is for people to realize that there is a war on, it's a World War, and it's not the Global War on Terror I'm referring to, the GWOT is part of it, but it's more a battle or a theatre than it is the whole war. The war I'm referring to has not yet been named, it's not even realized by most that it's taking place, but it is taking place and it's important that people begin to recognize it.
We are at a unique place in the history of mankind. No longer are we disjointed and separate groups of people separated by trade routes and occasional contact. The entire world has become a community against it's own will. Disparate groups with different worldviews have been thrust together via the Information Age and the bridges between nations and people have been physcally bridged by the culmination of the Industrial Age providing mobility and travel options never before seen in human history.
Some call this a culture war, others call it a clash of civilizations, others call it all manner of things. I prefer to use the term, The Long War, because I don't see any resolution to this war coming any time soon, and by my reckoning, this war has been going on since the late 1940's. That means we're already 60 years in and the war isn't even recognized, to expect that The Long War could last for another 100 years is not unrealistic.
So what is this war all about? In short, this war is about the future of the human race, ALL of the human race. That word ALL is very important, it should be thought about at least a little. ALL of the human race. We are at a convergence of human society where every human on the planet, if he or she so chooses, can interact with almost every other human on the planet through travel and electronic communication. A global consciousness is emerging. Humanity as a whole has entered a NEW infancy, this new infant is taking it's first tenative steps and only beginning to explore it's world, and realize it's potential.
While this war rages on, it will take various forms. Just as World War 2 had smaller, seemingly separate "theatres", this war has component parts that can't properly be called theatres, so lets just call them for the purposes of this discussion "a battle" as opposed to "the war". I recognize that I'm using battle incorrectly, but we just don't have the terminology to describe what is happening yet, we are living it right now, and defining it as we go, which makes the realization of what is happening all the more difficult.
The battle that is the GWOT is a battle of religion, religious wars are common throughout history, and this is another in a long line of religious wars. I believe that this will be the last. Islam is the last "unreformed" universalizing religion. It's highly unlikely that another true religion will arise. Cults will rise and become somewhat legitimate, like those cultist who worship "the envrironment", but these are minor players and not capable or desirous of global war like the Catholics did once and the Islamists do now. This religious war, the GWOT, is one we can fight, and we can win, the endpoint will be the reform of Islam and the rise of Islamic moderates to the positions of power within Islam. Once the moderates gain control of their religion, it's unlikely that it will retain it's extremist appeal for very long, the radicals will be marginalized, and eventually they will fade away. While this might seem a condemnation of the GWOT in favor of an internal Islamic solution, it isn't; the GWOT is a necessary battle, because Islam cannot reform without pressure from the outside, just as the Catholic Church would have never reformed were it not for the Princes of Europe demanding and fighting for it in the Wars of the Reformation.
So we will go forward with the GWOT, we must. I say we in a much larger sense than it is now. The WE in the equasion will grow as more people begin to realize what is at stake and what the other side, the Islamists, are aiming for. The second Caliphate will not rise and any attempt to create it, no matter how severe the attack or action, will be resisted, and as the attacks from THEM increase, the WE component will grow. Eventually the WE's will conquer the THEM's and Islam will reform, it won't end the problem of Islamists, but the threat will be effectively mitigated, and when it gains strength, it will be slapped down hard again, just as Nazism is slapped down when it makes it's periodic resurgences. There is no real threat of a Fourth Reich or a disciple of Hitler arising to take over the world, such a threat would immediately be pounced upon and destroyed if it began to seek conquest of others. Such will be the case when Islamism arises again the future after this battle is won.
Yet The Long War won't be over when Islamism is defeated. Other ideologies will arise or existing ones will decide that the time to strike is at hand. It must be remembered, that it is STILL the goal of Communist China to control the world and bring all of humanity under the banner of Communism. That battle lies ahead. It may be another violent clash, with guns and bombs and death, or it may be a relatively peacefull battle fought in boardrooms and with policy speeches and the will of the masses determining the victor. This battle is coming, we just don't know what shape it will take and whether it will be a HOT part of The Long War, or a COLD part.
Down the road we'll have battles we cannot conceive of now, against enemies we do not know, cannot see and do not suspect malice from, but THEY will challenge the WE and the battle will be fought.
Will The Long War ever end. Yes, it will, but the nature of what the world will be like at the end cannot be forseen, it's simply too far off and to many variables are in the way. What we do know is that it will end one day, and there will be a victor. This planet is simply too small for multiple ideologies and worldviews to exist indefinately. Multi-cuturalism will not be the future of the planet, a single global culture will eventually emerge as transportation and information transfer improves.
We are still in a phase of our development where different groups of people are given different sets of information to base their opinions and actions upon. One day this will not be the place. We are only a few short years away from information access being a uniform global process. Just as fiber replaced copper, WiFi will eventually be replaced by SatFi and any human with a simple device will have access to the same information as every other human with a simple, portable and self-contained device, accessing a global network that cannot be interfered with by local or national governments. If you want to look at the US internetsat, you will be able to, if you want to look at the China internetsat, you will be able to, access points in orbit are coming, and keeping a population in the dark will become impossible. When this occurs, it will be the strength of the ideas and goals of groups that will make them powerful and not merely their access to weapons and their local power over a population.
As transportation evolves, it too will give greater access and greater range to the individual. Highways will be replaced by skyways, and mankind's mobility will both act as a dampening effect and inflamatory effect on the violence and scope of The Long War. Combatants will have greater and greater access to their targets, but those targets will be contaminated more and more by unwanted bystanders. How this will play out cannot be forseen, but transportation will both increase the violence of The Long War and decrease it over time as populations continue to merge and high value single targets become more scarce.
The Long War will determine the future of mankind. Will we take to the the stars seeking out new homes, new science and a greater understanding of the universe? Will we stay earthbound, working like ants to serve the desires of a select few in a Communist utopia? Or will we see a new "religion" preventing us from developing our technology in some warped sense of respect for the planet where we see mass starvations and depopulations before a complete technological collapse that sets us back hundreds or thousands of years because we must not damage our environment for the sake of improving the lives of humans?
The Long War will have an end. There will be an eventual one world culture, there will be one world language, it's inevitable. There will be one world system of government, that too is inevitable. There will be a common set of information and it will be universally accessible, that too is inevitable.
That language does not have to be English, I'd sure like it to be, because I feel that it's got the greatest headstart and would be the most efficient direction to take and retain the most knowledge along the way. That system of government does not have to be Democracy, I'd sure like it to be, because Democracy empowers the individual, and does not reduce man to slave. That set of information does not have to be science and truth, it could be a political information set a la Orwell's 1984, or a religous set that teaches only one fantasy worldview, I'd sure like it to be the science and truth set, and I think the reasons are obvious.
So what is the whole point of this. The point is to realize that things are going to get worse before they get better when it comes to the GWOT, the point is to realize that the GWOT is just a battle, or a theatre, in the larger war for humanity, The Long War, which will determine where we, as a species (think about that: WE, as a SPECIES) decide to go with our opposable thumbs and big brains. The point is for people to realize that we are in a War that we have not yet named, a war that we do not yet see it's full scope, a war that will make past wars seem unimportant and a war that will change the very nature and scope of what is considered humanity.
The point is to hopefully spark other discussions about the future, and how it will be shape by the new interconnected small world we now live in as opposed to the old disconnected large world we inhabited just a few short decades ago. Where once we could have oceans and deserts as barriers, we now have everyone thrown together in one big bowl, and we must hash out our differences and come to a realization of what humanity is and what our purpose will be. Are we to be ants? Are we to be worshippers? Are we to be individuals? What will it mean to be human at the end of The Long War? What will we have to endure to get to that end?
This is survival of the fittest, who will it be? Athens or Sparta? (See the PS below for an explanation of that.)
Comments are welcome and will be responded to.
--Jason
PS, This screed, rant, commentary, post, whatever you want to call it, was sparked by a reading of this fictional piece by Dan Simmons. If anything in this post sparked interest, and even if it did not, I highly suggest you take the time to read the April 2006 Message from Dan. It's interesting, it's thought provoking, it's scary, and it's enlightening, take the time to read it, make the time to read it.
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September 11, 2006
Eine minuten bitte. . .
As we enter this day (I'm sorry, but I can't bring myself to call it an anniversary), that marks the fifth year since the attacks of September 11, 2001; many will have Islamic Terrorism and the greater threat of Islamic Fascism on their minds. This is appropriate, it will be on my mind as well. I just want to put the brakes on a second and remind people that Islamic Fascism is not the only threat we face in the world today.
As we prepare to remember our fallen, North Korea plans to announce to the world that they have indeed created an atomic bomb. Their only possible motivation for this is to blackmail the rest of the world into accepting a regime that starves millions of it's own people intentionally, that imposes an iron fist of state control on a completely opposite end of the scale from the Islamic Fascists.
Now is good time, if you haven't before, to read Bill Whittle's Tribes.
--Jason
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August 28, 2006
More required viewing. . .
Over at Gateway Pundit, some excellent must see video and must read coverage "When UN ambulances attack!"
--Jason
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August 27, 2006
Steve and Olaf freed. . .
Fox news, they've got Shep up early this AM, has announced that their two reporters, Steve Centani and Olaf Wiig have been released. I guess I can take a deep breath after that last post.
Nah, I'm still gonna let that all stand.
Apparently they "converted to Islam". It'll be interesting to hear what Centani reports after this.
--Jason
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August 25, 2006
Required viewing. . .
Given my last post, I thought I'd just add this. Hezbollah, great with the kids, aren't they?
H/T to Wild Thing
--Jason
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Personally. . .(A rant)
I'm tired of this kidnapping crap. They need to release the FOX News journalists immediately, or any and all compassion I have for the people that live in that region of the world (i.e. the true "civilians") is about to evaporate.
Let me put it this way. If there were an abduction of two journalists by a "previously unknown militant group" essentially a brand new "terrorist" group in Birmingham, AL, you can bet dollars to donuts that every policeman, firefighter, FBI agent, even national guard elements would be combing the city damn near door to door.
BUT. . . They would also be joined by literally thousands of citizens who would pound the pavement themselves. Community Groups would mobilize, and every stone would be turned.
The Gaza is an anarchistic proto-state, two rival terrorist organizations, who's only governing principle is to throw cash down to the people to buy their acquiescence (despite the fact they have very little to buy) who have got themselves stuck between a rival upstart group and Israel and the U.S. breathing down their neck. They have no structures in place that would even allow them to begin conducting a door to door search, or even have the possibility of being able to manage it. Or do they????? They certainly have the forces, don't they? They have some paper and some clipboards don't they? I'm sure they have a map?
The sad fact is that the Gaza government doesn't want to find these journalists, just as the Gaza government doesn't want to give up the Israeli soldiers. They NEED war, and they NEED it sooner rather than later. They need the threat of violence to control the civilian population and get them to endure all manner of injustice. They need war because it's the only thing their particular death cults find worthy. When you base a society on the concept that the greatest death possible, with the highest attainments in heaven achieved is by murdering infidels, these fools NEED war. We'd like to think they only need this in small doses, and we could practice containment on them, but the THEY includes more than just the Gaza and Lebanese groups, it's including Iran and Syria, and while Syria could sit by almost indefinately and play the containment game, Iran is under time pressure, Iran is trying to seize it's moment. The Iran power brokers need to make their play, do their part for greater Islam and take their place at the head of the Islamic Faith. They need war/murder/death to the infidels now, because they've reached a number of critical political evolutionary points, and they've made religious promises to get there.
Let's face it, if the Catholic Church based it's access to the top slots in heaven on murder, the Big C would have never gotten off the ground under the Romans. So it's basis was on something else, commitment to Jesus, who didn't run around lopping of heads in wars of conflict. Now look, this isn't a comparison of the two, I'm just pointing out that what you base your religion on forms the nature of your civilization.
Now it's debatable what Islam is based on, just as it's debatable what Catholicism is based on. Both Islam and Catholicism have their benefits and their faults. But there is a problem, and that problem is that Islam has had their faults rise to prominence within the faith and created monsters in the process.
If you are a Muslim man, you're most likely very rational and probably a good person, trying to live a good life and make the right decisions for yourself and your family to improve your lot as you race around through space on this big blue orb. If you are a Catholic man, you're most likely doing exactly the same.
Fanaticism is what we're talking about people. Yet this isn't the fanaticism of a small cult, it's the fanaticism of MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO GREATER ASPIRATION IN LIFE BUT MURDER. That's not a cult, it's a threat to civilization itself, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, it makes no matter, this fanaticism is a threat to civilization itself.
Iran's President (sorry, I'm not gonna go find the correct spelling and cut and paste it), is one of these fanatics, his aspiration is to get to heaven and receive his 72 virgins. He sees his martyrdom as a political one, he sees his martyrdom status as delivered by his very service to the creation of the Islamic caliphate, he'll get his crack at the top spot in heaven, and he knows it. That's an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS individual to have around. There is no way in Armie's mind that he can actually fail in his quest to battle the infidel, he's already locked in what he sees as mortal conflict. This is evidenced by his letter of late to George Bush calling Bush to Islam. Armie is engaging in what he sees as ritualized combat leading up to the actual show. His war has already begun and he is playing the role of omnipotent dictator in consult with the religious powers delivered in the personages of the Imams and Ayatollahs who remain the men behind the curtain. Who in a very real sense are even greater fanatics who are even deeper in psychosis than the "fighters on the streets" and the power-brokers/Political Sheiks like Armie.
So Iran needs war. Their fanaticism demands it, to deny the Muslim masses the ability to attain the top slots in heaven is a position these fanatics cannot back down from. Once you promise someone heaven, you can't take it away, when you promise paradise, and you're using religion to do so, you're stuck, you've either got to deliver or you've gotta go Jim Jones and pass out the Kool-Aid.
Hezbollah cannot stop their war against Israel. It's not about "land", it's about God, they are after all, the "Party of God" remember. Hamas cannot stop their war either, they cannot accept defeat, because they have generations of young Palestinian men who have been bred for a purpose, that purpose was to drive out Israel. Many of these young men believe that their own way to achieve a better life for themselves is to die in martyrdom and receive the gift of paradise from Allah. Come on people!!!! Can't you see the danger here. You basically have human predators being bred and created with all rational thought stripped away, all ability to question stripped away, you then cage these people in isolation from the rest of the world and you feed them a God-construct that demands that they blow themselves up (but only where their death can create the largest number of infidel casualties).
The absurdity of this situation is coming to a crest. We as a civilization are in some extremely dangerous straights right now. I think that the Mutual Assured Destruction of the Cold War was certainly a threat, and we minded our p's and q's to keep that eventuality off the table. BUT. . . there is no such fear on the part of Islamic Fanatics, contrarily, they have devised a quite logical and ingenious tactic. They have simply abandoned the need to care for the welfare of their people. They have turned their people into cannon fodder and send them to die without reservation about how many will survive the attack because all who are sent to attack are sent to die. They have abanoned the need to care for civilians, instead using them as human shields rather than create military defenses, simply place your machinegun nests or rocket launchers in civilian areas, use the humans above and around you as meat to absorb shrapnel and bullets. It's Ok, because if these civilians die, they died in the service of Allah against the infidel, and they will be martyrs for the cause, and achieve paradise.
Is this turning your stomach yet?
There will be no peace until this fanaticism is quite literally stamped out from within while pressure is put on it from without. If no pressure comes from within, from moderate Muslim communities, no amount of outside pressure will eradicate it, and that leaves only one solution for us infidels. If there isn't a change in the Muslim street in Gaza and Lebanon, which are both proxy acts for Iran and Syria, there is going to be a serious escalation in the Middle East, and when the other side provokes Israel by kidnapping soldiers in the north and the south, and they feel that they need to bump it up a notch by kidnapping Americans as well, there comes a point where you begin to say that you've had enough provocation, and it becomes time to open up the can of whoop-ass all the way.
We are using slightly less than 15% of our combat power in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have a number of pools to pull from if we need to. Without much effort, we could put 25% of our force in the middle east and escalate the violence to a point where much of the Middle East is charred sand and the population centers are significantly reordered.
We're approaching the point of all out war people. It's a war that is being forced upon us, it's a war we've consistently said we did not want, but would not shy from. This world war is against an ideology and those that would align itself with such an ideology, that ideology is Islamic Fascism and it's fast becoming, if not past, time to start calling this a World War and get busy with winning it.
Thanks for letting me rant.
--Jason
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