No matter who orates the message many in the West, ie most of Europe and in America, are simply never going to understand the world around them until such severe misery intrudes upon their feel-good lives that they have no choice but join the fight against the enemy.

It really is going to take an attack larger than 9/11 to get the apathic parasites to understand what they are up against.

Say, what’s your full name and address? I’d like to pay you a visit. Do you have family?

Perhaps you understand now the reasons for anonymity on the web….

[This is neo-neocon: I erased troll Pete’s comments, as I always do since he was banned from here.

But I thought I’d mention that his accusation that I’m keeping my identity from my family and friends is totally incorrect.

If anyone is interested in the explanation I’ve given for my anonymity as a blogger, see this post that I wrote in February of 2005, when I first started blogging regularly.

Also, if you read the “About Me” section of the upper right sidebar, you’ll notice I’ve written, “My friends and family are becoming sick of what they see as my inexplicable conversion…” So one can only conclude I’ve informed them of my politics, which is the case. In fact, my family and friends all also know about my blog, and have been given the URL to look at it any time they so desire. Most only read it intermittently, if at all, although a few have become regular readers.]

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Fallujah was a combat zone, without civilians, so the ROE was probably modified. One reason why they wanted the civilians evacuated, and gave the terroists weeks to leave. They wanted a situation where they could modify the ROE for combat, instead of using the civilian occupation ROE.

You see, this is an important point. Because if the Democrats had been the loyal opposition, they would have been hammering at Bush about these dumb ROEs for 5 years, and gotten them changed. But the Democrats were too busy jacking off to their own power, it seems.

Assistant here has got it right.

Rodney, if you are shooting at me, and hide behind your wife and kids, that’s not the same thing as you taking my wife and kids hostage and hiding behind them. If I hesitate or refuse to endanger them, that doesn’t make me racist. All the talk about whether that means I think their lives are more valuable in some abstract sense is a false choice.

justaguy, I’m not sure I find you quite coherent. The Israelis are not hiding their military installations among their populace. They aren’t tying Palestinian children to their vehicles. As to not caring about arabs, sally and the others here seem to care about them more than their own countrymen do. There has been a common complaint from the Palestinians over the years that is irrelevant but just keeps popping up: the Israelis don’t CARE. The Americans don’t CARE. When you press this, it turns out to be “We’re miserable and you’re comfortable, so you must not care.” Not at all. I hope for the Palestinians not to be miserable. And as soon as they stop making themselves miserable, they’ll be happier.

Go away.

Justaguy is talking about “Sally”, the individual person. No “racism” can be involved here, because his comments are directed at an individual, namely “Sally”.

But when similar comments are directed at “arabs”, they are directed at “a people”, the entire Arab community, who are assumed to share these characteristics. In other words, you’re generalising to an entire group of people. That’s why it is racism.

Saying “Charlie is an idiot” isn’t racist _per se_. But suppose Charlie is white. If someone says “All whites are idiots”, that would be clearly racist. Or is someone said “Charlie is an idiot because he’s white, and all whites are idiots”, that would clearly be racist.