Jun 28, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Australian columnist Andrew Bolt cites website Sawt al-Jihad's interview with Fawwaz bin Muhammad al-Nashami, head of the al-Qaida killers who attacked in Saudi Arabia last month:
Al-Nashami says he and his "brothers" shot their way into an oil company compound, where, as police confirm, they killed a British worker and tied his body to their car. He says they drove on until "the infidel's clothing was torn to shreds and he was naked in the street . . . and everyone watched the infidel being dragged, praise and gratitude be to Allah." The terrorists then stormed a second compound, and found an "American infidel". "I shot him in the head, and his head exploded. We entered another office and found one infidel from South Africa, and our brother Hussein slit his throat. We asked Allah to accept (these pious acts) from us, and from him."
The terrorists then killed guards at a third compound, where al-Nashami says they found Johansson: "Brother Nimr cut off his head and put it at the gate, so that it would be seen by all . . ."
They caught other workers and checked their religion. "We found Filipino Christians. We cut their throats and dedicated them to our brothers the Mujahideen in the Philippines. We found Hindu engineers and we cut their throats, too, Allah be praised . . . "We utilised the time for (teaching) the Koran to the Muslims who remained."
Jun 28, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Good stuff from Robert Tracinski in TIA Daily on dealing with Fallujah:
In the second century BC, the Roman Senator Cato championed a simple policy toward Rome's regional rival, Carthage: "delenda est Carthago"--"Carthage must be destroyed." Those were brutal times, and overpowering a rival city, back then, meant razing it to the ground, sowing the soil with salt, killing all of the men, and selling all of the women and children into slavery. I am not recommending that as contemporary military policy. But something like the absolutism of the ancient outlook is what is needed as an antidote to the dithering modern pragmatism that is undermining the war in Iraq. It is becoming clear that if the US is to achieve victory in Iraq, it must crush the current insurgency--and if it is to crush the insurgency, it must ruthlessly subdue the city of Fallujah.
He then goes on to explain how contradictory goals by America's politicians stifles America's miltary in Iraq.Jun 27, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Bruce Bartlett notes:
Conservatives have drifted away from those outlets they perceive as most biased, which has contributed heavily to an overall decline in viewership. The percentage of Americans who watch the evening network news regularly has fallen to just 34% today from 60% in 1993. Among Republicans, 15% or less report watching the evening news on ABC, CBS, or NBC. [NYSun]
Jun 24, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
"What does higher social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline."-- Benito Mussolini, The Corporate State
"The Fascist State aims at:1) the improvement of accident insurance;
2) the improvement and extension of maternity assistance;
3) insurance against occupational diseases and tuberculosis as a step towards insurance against all forms of disease;
5) the adoption of special forms of endowment insurance for young workers"
- Benito Mussolini,
The Corporate State
"Fascism sees in the world not only those superficial, material aspects in which man appears as an individual, standing by himself, self-centered, subject to natural law which instinctively urges him toward a life of selfish momentary pleasure; it sees not only the individual but the nation and the country; individuals and generations bound together by a moral law, with common traditions and a mission which suppressing the instinct for life closed in a brief circle of pleasure, builds up a higher life, founded on duty, a life free from the limitations of time and space, in which the individual, by self-sacrifice, the renunciation of self-interest, by death itself, can achieve that purely spiritual existence in which his value as a man consists."
-- Benito Mussolini, Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions
Jun 24, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Capitalism Magazine contributor, and a Professor at Ashland University, Dr. John Lewis chronicles the attacks on the west on his website.
Writes Dr. Lewis about the chronology:
The strongest evidence that the west--especially the United States--has appeased Middle Eastern governments for over five decades begins with a simple list of the major attacks made by various Islamic groups since the 1970's, and the lack of principled response to those attacks.
A list of every terrorist attack in the twentieth century would fill a volume. The chronology here is ruthlessly select; it includes a few events needed to understand the sequence, such as the formation of selected top-rank Islamic groups, formal declared wars, [and includes, in brackets, certain non-Muslim terrorist acts].
But no attempt has been made to document the hundreds of Palestinian bombings in Israel, and Israeli retaliations, unless they had international affects or involved the deaths of Americans. A series of one hijacker / one day hijackings without casualties have been omitted. This list does not adequately demonstrate the state of siege in which Israel has lived for over fifty years, nor does it convey the depths of Arab rage that has led them to prefer suicide over co-existence with Israel. This list focuses on violence against civilians by Islamic fundamentalists, for political purposes, which takes place in an international context.
