Comments on: Those who resist, and those who wait quietly for the slaughter http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/27/those-who-resist-and-those-who-wait-quietly-for-the-slaughter/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:42:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Earl http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/27/those-who-resist-and-those-who-wait-quietly-for-the-slaughter/#comment-5258 Earl Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:38:01 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=851#comment-5258 Trust....but verify. And that goes for everyone. I try to assume the best about people's motives -- I want to be surprised if they turn out bad, not judge them as bad and feel a sense of shock when they do the right thing. On the other hand, if one does this indiscriminately, and without watching one's back at all times, one ends up on the short end of a LOT of sticks. Trust….but verify. And that goes for everyone.

I try to assume the best about people’s motives — I want to be surprised if they turn out bad, not judge them as bad and feel a sense of shock when they do the right thing. On the other hand, if one does this indiscriminately, and without watching one’s back at all times, one ends up on the short end of a LOT of sticks.

]]> By: erp http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/27/those-who-resist-and-those-who-wait-quietly-for-the-slaughter/#comment-5259 erp Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:39:44 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=851#comment-5259 "Yesterday's Streets," an epic by Silvia Tennenbaum, depicts a wealthy extended family of Jews living a completely sectarian integrated life in Frankfort during the period just before WWI and just after WWII. It's very moving book and I found tears in my eyes when I finished it and closed the cover. German Jews scorned Zionism saying they had a state -- Germany. I think this sense of betrayal may also speak to the reason for many Jews' reluctance to believe they are truly integrated into our society -- holding back a little remembering ancestors in Germany who also thought they were valued citizens -- and who can blame them. I hope President Bush will put to rest many of these fears and allow Jews to use their heads instead of their hearts when they enter the voting booth in November. We can't let the Dems back in power. “Yesterday’s Streets,” an epic by Silvia Tennenbaum, depicts a wealthy extended family of Jews living a completely sectarian integrated life in Frankfort during the period just before WWI and just after WWII. It’s very moving book and I found tears in my eyes when I finished it and closed the cover.

German Jews scorned Zionism saying they had a state — Germany. I think this sense of betrayal may also speak to the reason for many Jews’ reluctance to believe they are truly integrated into our society — holding back a little remembering ancestors in Germany who also thought they were valued citizens — and who can blame them.

I hope President Bush will put to rest many of these fears and allow Jews to use their heads instead of their hearts when they enter the voting booth in November. We can’t let the Dems back in power.

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/27/those-who-resist-and-those-who-wait-quietly-for-the-slaughter/#comment-5260 Danny Lemieux Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:22:22 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=851#comment-5260 You are so right, Book. The cry of "never again" rings pretty hollow today as we see people make the same mistakes all over again. One of the unfortunately consequences of the extended period of peace that we have enjoyed in the United States is that people, from the context of our own short lifetimes, have come to view peace as the normal state of affairs and have forgotten the sacrifices must always be made in its name. How about a different perspective? "Peace" is just the interlude between periods of struggle and struggle is the normal state of affair in human (and all natural) existence. The only way to ward away violence and war is to be resolutely strong in the face of aggression. Running away only encourages predators. The untold damage that our (Western) Liberal/Left and MSM have already done to our society is to portray us as OBL's weak horse, further fueling the hopes of those that wish to destroy us. It is this perceived weakness, more than anything else, that recruits jihadis to the cause. They attack us only because they believe they can still win. You are so right, Book. The cry of “never again” rings pretty hollow today as we see people make the same mistakes all over again. One of the unfortunately consequences of the extended period of peace that we have enjoyed in the United States is that people, from the context of our own short lifetimes, have come to view peace as the normal state of affairs and have forgotten the sacrifices must always be made in its name. How about a different perspective? “Peace” is just the interlude between periods of struggle and struggle is the normal state of affair in human (and all natural) existence. The only way to ward away violence and war is to be resolutely strong in the face of aggression. Running away only encourages predators. The untold damage that our (Western) Liberal/Left and MSM have already done to our society is to portray us as OBL’s weak horse, further fueling the hopes of those that wish to destroy us. It is this perceived weakness, more than anything else, that recruits jihadis to the cause. They attack us only because they believe they can still win.

]]> By: Bill C http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/27/those-who-resist-and-those-who-wait-quietly-for-the-slaughter/#comment-5261 Bill C Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:07:19 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=851#comment-5261 The correct analogy is the cold war. We are trying to convince our enemy, especially those held hostage to the violent tendencies of the minority jihadists, to adopt our way of life. That, like capitalism, western liberalism will provide a better way of life. By that standard we are in for a long fight of varying intensities. The good news is that we cannot lose unless we stop fighting. The bad news is that a portion of western society does not want us to win out of a mistaken respect for a backward social system. The correct analogy is the cold war. We are trying to convince our enemy, especially those held hostage to the violent tendencies of the minority jihadists, to adopt our way of life. That, like capitalism, western liberalism will provide a better way of life. By that standard we are in for a long fight of varying intensities. The good news is that we cannot lose unless we stop fighting. The bad news is that a portion of western society does not want us to win out of a mistaken respect for a backward social system.

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