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Kill Them All… and then Salt the Earth….
Posted by Duncan on December 2nd, 2008
Watch this.
And then tell me how these pieces of filth, these sub-human animals, are somehow just misunderstood. That somehow their attacks on innocent human beings are just “push-back” from Pakistani militants angry about Kashmir? Or that is in response to the “Global War on Terror”. All of that moral equivocation bullsh!t is starting to really, really piss me off. These hippie freaks with their wind chimes and incense are going to get us all killed if we allow them to dictate our defense and security.
See, there used to be this thing called the Roman Republic. They fought three wars with this place called Carthage. Hannibal ring a bell to anyone? Cannae (lucky for the Romans that they didn’t have the Democrats in charge of their republic at that military blunder, they’d declare the war lost and sue for peace)? Anyways, I would like to point out that they didn’t have to fight a FOURTH Punic War with Carthage. Why might you ask? Here’s why:
After Utica defected to Rome in 149 BC, Rome declared war against Carthage. The Carthaginians made a series of attempts to negotiate with Rome, and received a promise that if three hundred children of well-born Carthaginians were sent as hostages to Rome the Carthaginians would keep the rights to their land and self-government. Even after this was done, however, the Romans landed an army at Utica where the consuls demanded that Carthage hand over all weapons and armour. After those had been handed over, Rome additionally demanded that the Carthaginians move at least ten miles inland, while the city itself was to be burned. When the Carthaginians learned of this they abandoned negotiations and the city was immediately besieged, beginning the Third Punic War. The Carthaginians endured the siege starting c.149 BC to the spring of 146 BC, when Scipio Aemilianus took the city by storm.
Many Carthaginians died from starvation during the later part of the siege, while many others died in the final six days of fighting. When the war ended, the remaining 50,000 Carthaginians, a small part of the original pre-war population were, as was the normal fate in antiquity of inhabitants of sacked cities, sold into slavery by the victors. The city was systematically burned for somewhere between 10 and 17 days; the city walls, its buildings and its harbour were utterly destroyed.
Kinda hard to fight a war when your people are all dead, in slavery, and your city completely and utterly destroyed.
I say we take a book from the Roman Republic and declare an all out war, without quarter, against these muthas. The time for hand-wringing and navel gazing is over. The time for moral equivocation is over. The Romans realized the hard fact that there comes a time to just eradicate your problem, especially if it continues to raise its ugly head. Lets kill these bastards, lets destroy their sanctuaries, and then lets salt the earth so they never return….
That sad, sad, little baby, crying for his dead mother (who was reportedly tortured before she was murdered), breaks my heart, and then raises such an anger in me that to call it rage barely does it justice…
As Misha says, Kill ‘Em All….
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
‘Kill Them All… and then Salt the Earth….’
For starters.
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
It’s easy to say “kill them all.” But who is “them” and how do we kill “them” all without killing masses of civilians? And if we kill masses of civilians along with “them” what makes us any different from “them”?
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
It’s easy Josh – do your homework, be thorough identify, isolate and then kill them and their extended families.
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/12/whos-to-say-and-advent-of-offense.html
December 2nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
. . . and we ( by that I mean me and anyone else for that matter) will not really worry about it too much.
Let’s not worry too much about ‘just how badly one might feel’ Kill ‘em all!
I do not believe that I’d lose a wink of sleep.
December 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I don’t see how you can try to investigate the cause of a problem without inevitably learning about why someone would do something like that. Surely, the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan war have shown us that “just killing all the bad guys” would be far too expensive. And remember, this is an act of people within a culture. Sooner or later, more people will do the same thing if they exist within the same culture. Unfortunately, the only solution may be to try to find a way to compromise. If they are religious fundamentalists, we cannot compromise with them and should probably be killed, but if they are fundamentalists it is probably so because they live an imporverished and uneducated culture. (A higher percentage of people without a college education than the general population are Christian fundamentalists). Sure, dumb hippies think we should just love everyone and it will all be o.k., but I think a more sophisticated argument says that we should try to learn the cause of a problem before we can learn how to resolve it.
December 4th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Terri, in my view, the cause of the Mumbai terrorist’s problem is not poverty or lack of education, but their own bigotted hate for people different from themselves. They are analogous to the nazis in their hatred of Jews or the KKK in their hatred of blacks.
December 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Hi Bigfoot-
I know it sounds sophomoric, but I think it’s a critical question: Why do you think they hate? And why don’t we?
December 4th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Terri,
I can’t really be sure of the precise reasons for their hate, but if I can be permitted an educated guess, I’d say it’s borne out of their religious fanaticism. I think that they regard the practice of any religion other than islam (as they define it) as a sin so insideously evil as to deserve death. As for us, western civilization has grown out of its religious desire for conquest (such as the Crusades), perhaps because we realized that such violence has no basis in our Scriptures.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Terri you are very uninformed.
The 9-11 terrorists were college educated young men. Who lived in Saudi Arabia and had good lives. Education and poverty are not issues for most of these people. It is a fundamental HATRED of our lifestyle- of being free- that drives this hatred. Short of giving up most of our freedoms and our very way of life, our culture, our diverse religions, we will always be hated by these Islamic extremists. There is no pacifying them- and until you understand that you’re doomed to be a victim of their hate. Just like the people killed on 9-11.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Josh,
First of all.. I am not calling for carpet bombing of every city/hamlet/village/wedding party in the Middle East and Central Asia, as attractive an option it might be… What I am saying is the time for “understanding” is over. The time for “navel gazing” is over. Short of “compromising” with evil, the option is to let our trained killers/interrogators/operatives do their damn jobs and start eradicated this vermin. People like you are against waterboarding while our troops are being tortured, murdered, and their bodies violated. They’d love to be waterboarded compared to what they faced. I am calling for extreme and cold violence against our enemies.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Terri,
The exact type of navel-gazing and hand-wringing I was referring too. Why do they hate us? They’ve told us. Time and time again. We have not embraced Islam. We live contrary to their ways, and they believe it is their job to rectify the problem. Here is something that Mark Steyn wrote the following the Mumbai attacks that I found insightful:
They have a radical ideology that drives them. And nothing but our submission will make them happy. And I don’t plan to submit. In fact, I would rather visit violence upon them, wipe them out, instead of waiting for more of my fellow citizens to be wiped out in their next attack.
December 6th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Like crime scenes in America, the forensics and charges and trials do nothing to end crime.
Crime increases.
Unlike America, the terrorists are not interested in any form of justice. They want to terrorize at all costs; so that we put our heads in the sand and therefore, surrender. Obama will surrender. With plates of cookies and cups of milk in hand…there is no understanding. There is no working together. There is no friendships here.
It’s us or them.
I chose US.