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January 16, 2006

The Not So Quick and the Nearly Dead

Hatched by Dafydd

Desperation mounting, the enemy now realizes they have only one last chance. Defeated on the field of arms, they must turn to their secret weapon... their tongues, inspired by the cause, must lure the infidels and crusaders into such guilt and despair that they come to believe they've lost a war that they've already won, persuading them to flee the field in the nick of time -- before the enemy loses everything.

But the enemy is unsure of its allies; they're not very reliable. Many of the Sunni rejectionists, the only ones who could validly make the claim to be real "insurgents" and gain thereby the sympathy of the world, are now rejecting the path of the enemy: they're laying down their arms and joining in the hateful democracy of the infidels.

Worse, the enemy's other allies -- the foreign jihadis -- have proven so bloodthirsty and ineffectual that they have utterly lost the hearts and minds of their Arab brothers in the heart of Mesopotamia.

The enemy is nearing the end. They have nothing left to give, having given it all for their cause. At last, in near despair, the enemy turns to one of its earlier, revered sheikhs, a man renowned during his tenure as only the elect of the prophet can be... a man who still has such a following among the enemy that they hush when he approaches, and they come as close to bowing as they can for any man (other than themselves, for the enemy has an egocentric streak as wide as the limousines in which they're driven by their lackeys). They beg the Great Sheikh, the erstwhile leader of the cause, to speak, to bring back the magic of the Elect one more time.

And Uncle Walter is moved by their devotion... for speak he does:

"It's my belief that we should get out now," Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters....

"We had an opportunity to say to the world and Iraqis after the hurricane disaster that Mother Nature has not treated us well and we find ourselves missing the amount of money it takes to help these poor people out of their homeless situation and rebuild some of our most important cities in the United States," he said. "Therefore, we are going to have to bring our troops home."

And among the enemy, a ragged cheer breaks forth, quickly swallowed in the holy solmnity of the moment. The Great Sheikh won perhaps the most magnificent victory of the cause, but so many years ago, in 1968. Those among the enemy, the Anointed, who are old enough still to remember the glory days bow their heads and smile at the terror that the Great Sheikh inspired in the quavering hearts of the infidels and crusaders:

Cronkite said one of his proudest moments came at the end of a 1968 documentary he made following a visit to Vietnam during the Tet offensive. Urged by his boss to briefly set aside his objectivity to give his view of the situation, Cronkite said the war was unwinnable and that the U.S. should exit.

Then-President Lyndon Johnson reportedly told a White House aide after that, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."

The bitter, hated leader of the crusaders at the time was so disheartened by the magic of the Great Sheikh that he fell into despair and gave up his mighty emirate, wasting his few remaining days in penance and regret, a bootless attempt at expiation for his monstrous crime. But the Anointed wasted no pity on the wretch: he had been one of them, until he fell into apostasy, espousing the cause of the Great Satan and even extending its reach against the Holy Land of the Caucasus -- for a time, until the might of the Great Sheikh cowed him, defeated him, and rolled back the satanic victory, returning the conquered land to the Vision: Indochine was once again part of the ummah of the Anointed.

Surely the cause would smile upon the Great Sheikh again today. Surely his words will work the same magic as before! After all, are not the Elect every bit as devoted to the cause as they were in 1968? And that must count, even in the eyes of the infidels and crusaders who make up the armed forces and the execrable "democracy" of the Great Satan even today. Surely that blind devotion must count for something!

Mustn't it?

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, January 16, 2006, at the time of 1:12 PM

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The following hissed in response by: Bill Faith

Excellent essay, Dafydd. I've linked from Walter Cronkite: Still stuck on stupid. The '68 Tet offensive was a major military defeat for the Viet Cong, not for the South or for the US. With the VC beaten and broken after the offensive, the North Vietnamese would have abandoned their hopes of conquering the south if not for the assistance they got from Walter Cronkite, John Kerry, Jane Fonda and others of their pathetic ilk. Walter Cronkite has the blood of thousands of American soldiers, and even more Vietnamese, on his hands and he still isn't smart enough after all of these years to feel any remorse. If not for the fact that George Bush is too smart to listen to him he'd apparently be more than happy to add the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis to his bloody scorecard. BTW, we were still winning when I came home in '72.

The above hissed in response by: Bill Faith at January 16, 2006 2:37 PM

The following hissed in response by: RBMN

In the years of the Depression, there were large numbers of Americans--desperate Americans--that put their whole heart and faith into socialism, or worldwide workers unions, or just plain leftwing populism, even to the point that they were socialists first, and Americans second, or "workers" and "farmers" first, and Americans second. Life was too hard. America had let them down. They were desperate, and desperate times can create politically single-minded people. And as people age (e.g. old coots like Walter Cronkite and Helen Thomas) the modern world gets a little too complicated for them, and their minds just naturally drift back to younger days, dredging up those old ideological frameworks that they used in the 1930s, as teenagers, to make sense of the world. And for some people, those frameworks were very wrong. And they've forgotten why they grew beyond them--why they rejected that framework at some point. They don't remember. I think that might be the mechanism that creates the elderly kook--older people thinking and acting like children, like Walter Cronkite and Helen Thomas.

The above hissed in response by: RBMN at January 16, 2006 3:13 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

RBMN:

I think that might be the mechanism that creates the elderly kook--older people thinking and acting like children, like Walter Cronkite and Helen Thomas.

Then again, they might just be dumbasses.

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at January 16, 2006 5:10 PM

The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh

Bill Faith:

BTW, we were still winning when I came home in '72.

And in fact for two more years after we withdrew all of our forces in April of 1973!

The Commies didn't conquer Saigon until April 30th, 1975. And of course, with just a smidgen of air support, we could have had a South Vietnam that would be a vibrant and free as South Korea is today.

Dafydd

The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at January 16, 2006 5:21 PM

The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

"Jack Bauer"is a p*ssy. He surrenders for a boy, and gives up his weapon. OK...it works in Hollywood. i like this series, and never watch such.

...to be continued

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at January 16, 2006 6:07 PM

The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

America is playing games with the likes of a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and we we lose whilst waiting, and he knows it.

their tongues

Hey, if a tongue is properly used, it is a weapon or tampon; however...

24 is back...

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at January 16, 2006 6:13 PM

The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

Testing...

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at January 16, 2006 7:00 PM

The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

Slow site, huh...

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at January 16, 2006 7:01 PM

The following hissed in response by: Bill Faith

Dafydd:

... with just a smidgen of air support, we could have had a South Vietnam that would be a vibrant and free as South Korea is today.

I'm not convinced they would even have needed that. They definitely did need us to keep them supplied with fuel and ammo, and we didn't even do that. I can't find the words to begin to explain the hatred and utter disgust I feel for the Congress elected in the '74 elections. I lost friends over there, American and Vietnamese, and it would hurt a lot less if we had something to show for it. Do you even need to guess how I and a lot of other Viet Nam vets feel about Murtha and Cronkite and anyone else who wants us to pull out of Iraq before the job's done?

The above hissed in response by: Bill Faith at January 17, 2006 1:25 AM