Coulter Rides Again

Coulter Clash

"What? A Valkyrie can't be born again on the 4th of July  for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?....  Godless traitor! .... Slandering Liberal!..... DOGmatist!...."

BlogWorld: Aug20 update. Holy Propoganda Warriors. Ann Coulter's solution for the Middle East: Invade, kill the leaders, convert everyone living to Christianity. Alexandra von Maltzan, despite warrior tendencies, examines instead the Information War at Allthingsbeautiful, "Topsy-Turvy Works."  This very a propos subject leads gringovision to grant that, yes, the Islamites are proving themselves very crafty in the Information War. Yes, indeed.

But might this just be another instance of how the West, whether secular, socialist or Christian,  does not appreciate the resourcefulness of such fanatics, such religious warriors? These impassioned Islamites, after all, are  "resourceful" with the core creativity, inventiveness and technical ingenuity of the U.S. and the West. They harness it to their medeival purposes born in the bedouin desert.

It should all become clearer as the epic continues to unfold. Here's just one little hypothetical example. Think about the current Islamizing of the U.S. Marine base at Quantico which is happening under Georgie ("Ït's a religion of Peace") Bush, who can go where even a pious preppy like "Pinch"Sulzberger might fear to tread. As the U.S. military becomes increasingly accepting of and comfortable with the Koran crowd, even The Information War is bound to take on a different hue, coloring American perceptions. (Check out the top historians---if development in Beethoven et al, doesn't make it clear enough.) You mean you can't foresee the day, whether five, ten years from now, or whatever, when Christians, sophisticated secularites and Marines converted to Islam, can meet together for pleasant ecumenities in the great Mosque at Quantico, funded by Wahabbi associates, okayed by Georgie Bush, approved by ACLU-niks, praised by liberals, tolerated by progressive homosexuals,  with funds for an elegant, tasteful minaret (and full-time muezzin calling the semper faithful to prayer)  contributed by left/right Global DealMakers who drink Chivas Regal with the most important sheikhs in the Beltway?

It took Rome, the unquestioned superpower of the time, about 300 years to officially convert to the new monotheism from the East. But that was then. You know about the modern pace, and how progress has speeded up everything, and how "can do" Americans are always in a hurry. And you also know that the New Thing from the East confronting Rome did not already have a billion faithful, willing to struggle for its final victory, some ready to martyr themselves or even anti-infidel babies.  Rome was not faced with that, nor with powerful  eliteniks and socialists settling scores at home by paving the Appian Way for the new religion's triumphal march.

Aug. 16 update: West: Fat & Feminized: Bill Roggio looks at debacle, summarizing the winners and the losers in the Lebanese conflict. Hezbollah, Iran, Syria and every Islamist terrorist organisation in the world won. Israel and the west lost, the people of Lebanon lost big. And the UN also managed to broker a deal that ironically may spell its future irrelevancy for all the wrong reasons. Read Roggio's assessment.....Meanwhile,  the pap charts of Western leadership are full of  pretentious platitudes like "pivotal moment in the Middle East"and equally pretentious cliches about the "march of freedom" which, of course, "the terrorists fear and will try to obstruct."

Aug 12 update. ISLAMITES & AIRBORNE WOMEN (To a lady re new security measures at Heathrow) If airline (in)security continues, and the Islamites are able, in effect, to sabotage yet another fundamental female human right (cosmetics at high altitude), solace for a woman is still possible (according to gringovision.) That is, although boarding cream-and-gel free, woman can use this adversity as an exceptional opportunity: a chance--practically an invitation-- to make contact with her inner nun. Man's loss can be The Church's gain. The situation is practically made for the woman of spirit and spirituality. Ecumenical? Yes. Catholics  don't have a monopoly on the concept of women doing without Max Factor or Helena Rubinstein. Ask the Buddhists, or even a certain kind of au natural feminist.


August 11 update:  The Holies and Heathrow. This latest Islamite threat is also very interesting for the sub-text, that is, the  intention--sometimes even stated--that the Government will be scrupulous, even intensely cautious not to implicate or involve or persecute in any way the majority of peaceful muslims. Exquisite sensitivity is built-in. part of the official woodwork. effectively restraining broad undercurrents of anger against "them," the "muslims."

(The UK and US are fairly similar in this fine stated objective and attitude, while the masses consent to the tedium and hassle of  being searched just like any muslim Arab or Asian. Not to appear to "discriminate"is deemed paramount, all-important.)

The ironies and paradoxes are fit for a gourmand. And who can doubt that these infidel Governments, adhering to the great Liberal Western tradition, can and will and probably must continue this ultra-sensitive approach so as (1) not to infringe on individual liberties (the ACLU and even some UK authorities offer a refresher course, if anyone needs it)and (2) not to offend, antagonize or otherwise mess with the billion-strong belief system of Islam (which, as even Georgie Bush reminds us, while holding Prince Bandar's nice rich Saudi hand, is, yes, "ä religion of peace."

Who but a hopeless boor or enemy of human rights would want it any other way?

Of course, it's virtually certain that the self-styled Holy Warriors understand this Western mind-set, and rather accurately, judging by their savvy with World Media. They would understand that this mindset will continue until the West in general, and the US in particular, is damaged in a way never experienced before.

Which indicates that they have incentive to go for the Big Blow---something really big, something befitting the Iranian Ahma guy's Islamic phantasmagoria (something beyond the current nastiness out of Heathrow) This something, true, would wake up the "sleeping giant" (as Heathrow will not) the giant who then might, admittedly, secure for many of their co-believers a rapid passage to martyr's paradise. That is fairly obvious. And is it not another incentive for the Holy Dudes to make sure that the giant kufar, even when waking up, finds itself grievously injured and shockingly  weakened?

August 02 update:A bit of straight talk at the UN! Israel's Dan Gillerman evaluated (if we may)Advanced Degenerative Lebanocarcinoma, (caused by excessive exposure to Hezbollah
and its UV rays.) Alexandra von Maltzan helped to rescue this acute diagnosis from MSM neglect
and obscurity---something which MSM could much easier manage with the polibiopsy results posted here earlier, gringo-indicative of Hezbollah's having "metastasized
throughout the once lovely body of Lebanon."

July 21 Update.    THE LAMENESS OF LEBANON. As the facts on the Levantine ground become clearer, it appears undeniable that Israel, in its current incursion, will not be able to achieve its most desirable and sensible result, i.e. the quick and thorough dispatching of Hezbollah to its Paradise.

These jumping jihadis are now obviously too well organized and adept at taking an entire country hostage. They even curry favor with their victims by social projects, humanitarian aid etc. It's clever, all right. When they rocket Israel from Lebanon, the Lebanese will blame "the Jews"for any retaliation and casualties. CNN, alJazeera, MohammedVision etc will be on the spot to show the world and the compassionate American studentki(off all ages) how "ruthless"the Israelis are. Dems will call for more "diplomacy," and Pubs won't be far behind.

Evem if prominent acadhimmis like Juan Cole break ranks and dare to mention Hezbollah "war crimes," and possibly even hint that its entire strategy of using civilians as shields and to hide its operations and hundreds of rockets is in fact a "war crime,"it is also crystal clear that

1. The UN can't and/or won't do anything about it.
2. The world anti-American Front, largely those who still dream their nice socialist dreams, can't and/or won't do anything about it.
3. Ibid. crazy George Soros
4. Ibid. CNN, MSM, the Sulzberger Times etc.
5.  Ibid, in fact, all, or most all the world.

Today's conclusion: Even liberals, like a broken clock, can be right for one or two minutes every 24 hours. Israel, that is, cannot terminate Hezbollah. certainly not under current ROE (Rules of Engagement.) So is this incursion anything more than Olmert's promise to his Israeli public that Israel will respond to the provocation of fanatics?

Some suggest yes, the destruction of infrastructure in south Lebanon could also function as a dry run (actually not so dry) for action against the main fountain of Shia fanaticos today, Tehran. Could. Might. Would. Will?

Whatever, we know what's coming. Condy Rice puts on her traveling boots again (more quality time lost from working on that Beethoven presto or, Lordy, taking another stab at the Hammerklavier). It appears from here that even if the Israelis at first responded like Romans to cunning barbarian provocateurs, the world--and this includes both Hezbollah and Washington--knows, or strongly suspects that Israel will have to retreat, eventually. The 'Romans' will morph into diplomats whose withdrawal is approved by the UN (Unctuous Nations.) The Muddle East Show is not just any tragi-farce. This one still has a long run ahead of it..

July 18 update: THIS JUST IN (from over 200 years ago, i.e.  having---according to perspectives---  everything or nothing to do with the broil of current Middle East headlines---Hamas, Hezbollah, Israelis, lame Lebanon, mullah-blessed rockets, World Powers concerned. Diplomats dispatched etc etc)

July 06 As Little Kim (the Jong who is Ill), keeps the world on edge, suddenly acting up again, taking time out from his vast collection of pornography, playing with his missiles in test firings, talking tough, harrowing Japan, threatening even the U.S. with "nuclear punishment," rubbing it in Yankee faces with NoKo missile launches timed for July 4 and the NASA Discovery space-shuttle launch, no one---certainly not the Dems and Pubs in Washington---is officially pointing the finger at the culprit who is un-named. Why? Why such reluctance? Why won't they admit that the real problem is not in Pyongyang, but with its puppet masters in Beijing? How long would it take China to throw starving, dysfunctional North Korea's chubby little obscenity to his own wolves (probably military) by cutting off all shipments of food and fuel etc? How long would it take to lance long-suffering North Korea's virulent abcess, and without any need of Chinese military intervention, or overwhelming South Korea with refugees from the socialist North? About a week? Maybe Washington can't act, despite its superpower. But can't it fine-tune the diplomacy enough for some straight talk ?.... Re Ann Coulter's old "friend," The New York Sulzberger Times, Bush Hatred,Inc. true to form repeated for a half century and more by the pious Left, is seeing the critics of Times' divulging classified secrets as---you guessed it--- critics who are essentially the lying harbingers of fascism. Not even the "sophisticates" at today's "engage" New Yorker are immune from this stale  old communist habit.   Hugh Hewitt slaps back at the elite yentas in The Decline and Fall of the Bemoaning Empire. (Incidentally, re the flock of conspiracy buffs who can "prove" that 9.11 was an "inside job": gringoVision asks: Isn't that easily disproved? The Islamos didn't listen to Coulter. They took out the Twin Towers, not the NY Times....July 4: For a most cool  Abe Lincoln, niftily photo-shopped, see Hot Air's Happy Fourth....For a healthy  Constitutional, extolling  Independence, Alexandra at Allthingsbeautiful offers Happy Birthday, America.
 

"....one hundred years after [Mohammed's] flight from Mecca the arms and the reign of his successors extended from India to the Atlantic Ocean [comprising] Persia, Syria, Egypt, Africa, Spain....The birth of Mohammed was fortunately placed in the most degenerate and disorderly period of the Persians, the Romans and the barbarians of Europe; the empires of Trajan, or even of Constantine or Charlemagne would have repelled the assault of the naked Saracens, and the torrent of fanaticism might have been obscurely lost in the sands of Arabia...."

---Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II

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Gringommentary:1. The term 'Saracen' was often used liberally by ancients as a synonym for Eastern barbarians, cut-throats, assassins, Arab warriors, desert terrorists, intimidators, protection gangs etc---many of whom were converted from their old warlord gods to the charismatic warlord Mohammed's new religion---an aggressive, arrogant  monotheism  derived largely from Judaism  and known as Islam (submission.) A certain non-Arab North African tribe or nation is also called 'Saracen',  sometimes adding to the semantic confusion.

2. 'Muslim crusades'? Much, if not most,  of these enormous conquests were of Christianized lands. Here Christianity fell to the marauders (invaders if you will) who now submitted to the Mosque and wanted everyone else to submit,  as in Syria, Egypt and Spain. Gibbon, who could do history  and  could also write, and  both majestically, did not use the term 'muslim crusades.' Of course, centuries later, only muslims have been permitted to exploit the term 'Crusaders,' with the tacit consent of the politcally correct West and its new breed of "sensitive"and "educated" emasculatos,  including not only the usual socialists and their moneyed  elite, but also such nominal 'realists' as the Bush Republicans and many on the Right who hold hands, profitably,  with moderate muslims. The muslim invasion  and conversion of  Christian lands is considered simply de facto history. Christians who, centuries later, invaded formerly Christian, now Islamized lands, are considered perpetrators of historic injustice, condemned by the UN, deplored by the Sulzberger Times and cheered only by a 'shocking' Ann Coulter et al.

3.Do Israelis perhaps know Roman and Islamic history better than Americans know it? Or is it even fair to juxtapose Americans and a sense of history?

Now what about taking this to a certain logical conclusion, i.e. to a place that
diplomacy may forbid even Mr. Gillerman?

Item: Media interview after media interview indicates widespread Lebanese support
for Hezbollah.

Item: Ibid for poll after poll.

Item: Ibid for Lebanese Government officials, not just "the people."

Item: This widespread support appears undiminished---possibly even bolstered---by
Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel.

Item: As previously suggested by this observer, the Lebanese and world-managed opinion
will not blame Hezbollah for Israeli response and counter-attack. Instead, they
will blame "the Jews."

Item: If any of the above is somehow misleading, specious, not truly representative,
where are the sizeable (or any) demonstrations against Hezbollah and its "drafting"
of Lebanon, i.e. inducting Lebanon for war against Israel?

Item: While Lebanon is in effect in a state of war against Israel. attacking Israel
from its territory, the Lebanese and their co-whiners complain bitterly that Israel
is reacting forcefully. National psychosis? Unctuous Nation psychosis? Or simply
human, all too human (as that term is understood by Islamites and the Eurogoy?)

CONCLUSION: Understandably Israel hopes to draw a distinction between Lebanon and
what it sees as the cunning guerilla interloper, Hezbollah. But however practical
this may be diplomatically, is it based any longer in reality?

Have not the Lebanese, in all social strata, surrendered more or less willingly
to perceived strength and dynamism?

Is there any longer a de facto difference between Lebanon and Hezbollah, even if
you see Hezbollah as basically an unusually talented and well-organized body snatcher?

Have not the Lebanese decided not to stand up? Have they not decided that it would
be less punitive, less dangerous just to lay back and somehow, despite all the unpleasantness,
try, try to enjoy it? The Hezbos are, after all, the Hezbos. Horrible yet hot. They're not "theJews," are they? Ask World Media.

Unfortunately, the  rhetoric can't escape fundamental facts. The facile dependence on idealism  has never ever proved itself able to withstand the forces of evil, barbarism or just plain old human nature and corruption. Greece and Rome, over many centuries of real life, understood. Even the 'ísmatics'of the Left can understand  that it was overwhelming force, not fine theories of social engineering, that crushed the National Socialists of Germany.  A gringo advisory to anyone, including "conservatives," who drift over to the Left's self-serving platitudes of 'People-ism': You may want to learn and savor the heady pleasures of pessimism. This is going to be a very useful art. As gringovision indicated previously: your sentiments are nice, even fine (and we'll forget, for the moment, why the Founding Fathers constructed a REPUBLIC and NOT a democracy.) But here's what  the buffs still prefer to downplay, since it's much harder than spouting politically correct "democracy"and "free elections': IT''S THE SECURITY, STUPID.  And now even the Hezbos have demonstrated that (1) you still do not understand or (2) you understand but lack the will or (3) you understand but lack not only the will but also the cojones and cannot admit how fat and feminized you now look to everyone except yourselves, as you adjust your panties, trying to get off cheap by pushing buttons and dropping some bombs and writing sanctimonials and  doing the Diplomatic Fox Trot at the Unctuous Nations.

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Comments

[Wagner]

Mein Gott!

[gringoman]

Actually, shouldn't you make that meinen gotter, or some other plural? The Valkyries were too pre-Christian for "Mein Gott!" But maybe you do have a point. Coulter as Valkyrie seems to be converting.

[Phillip Wedeen]

Gringoman:

Why is that mythological horseman wearing sunglasses on his chest?

You certainly have a thing for this warrior stuff. I'll even bet you wish that the military play a much more prominent role in the day to day affaires of state.

Also, one gathers that election time in amerika is drawing near... because it is time to up the fear mongoring. I even heard GWB say that he is steadfast against the marriage between a man and a flag.

[Phillip Wedeen]

You quoted Gibbon out of context and by omission create the opposite impression of the passage; that being that the muslims were victorious because their enemies were weak and and disunited.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall is hardly the last word on Roman History being about 200yrs old itself. But even so, is inapplicable to the current conflict in Lebanon because the aggressors are Israeli. It is the IDF which is invading.
Gibbon may be prescient is another sense: The decline & fall of the two-state solution. The world is overwhelmingly opposed to the state policies of the Likud regime and this latest crisis may portend the future of the israeli body politic; that of a unitary secular state.

[Phillip Wedeen]

Gringoman: I thought you were dead! I tried getting NYC Obits here in Montreal but to no avail.
Where have you been hiding?

Your AUG2 remarks regarding the illegal invasion and war crimes committed by Israel make no sense. Fisrt you ramble on ad-nauseum, and second, why would the "armies of god" want to make war on the "god's chosen people"?
It all sounds like autophagy.
Perhaps the only way out is for Israel to declare itself a secular society and stop the apartheid shenanigans.
In the hermit kingdom of bloggers where all things are beautiful and an "iraqi dentist" is now a zionist, the british colonel in charge of public relations has published a book calling the "brothers" an american disinfo campaign run out of Ft Dix, USA!
Sac Le Bleu! I am shocked, shocked!

[Phillip Wedeen]

Gringoman:
How long have you been in LEESBURG with Lyndon LaRouche?

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