Month: February 2010

Edward Cline/FSM

I read an interesting Spiked column on the current “offensive” in Afghanistan. The author makes several valid points. He all but says that if the war is fought, not to achieve victory, but to attain some altruistic “hearts and minds” goal, then it is pointless to even wage the war.

As the NATO forces prepared to launch their latest doomed offensive to defeat an invisible enemy while winning over hostile hearts and minds, a British lieutenant colonel was quoted as saying, somewhat tactlessly, ‘We are going into the heart of darkness’.

Tactlessly? “The heart of darkness” (a reference to Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness) is ultimately not what Mick Hume alludes to, “an occupation without purpose, a dangerous military offensive without goals, a war without causes but plenty of casualties.” Rather, it is to the enveloping, logical darkness of acting from selfless, altruistic motives. In war, as well as in peace, as a nation’s policy or as a personal one, the object of selflessness and altruism is to sacrifice a value for a non-value, to elevate mediocrity as a means of razing shrines. (See Ellsworth Toohey’s speech on the means and ends of altruism wedded to collectivism in Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, for clarification on that issue.)* It is to seek no gain, not even a national security one. In this instance, it is to elevate ourselves in the eyes of semi-literate brutes and world opinion.

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Unfortunately,  the turd who wrote this was too coward to sign a name to it. But will that stop the enlightened progressives around KRudd to follow the failed policies of  UK’s Jacqui Smith, Hazel Blears and David Miliband?

Flashback: UK: Government renames Islamic terrorism as ‘anti-Islamic activity … and Mark Steyn: Excessive deference to Islam.

Update: Jihad? Lets just throw money at it!

‘The main threat to Australia’s security comes from a global jihadist movement, including al-Qaeda and those inspired by a similar world view,”

Mr KRudd will not reveal the identity of the 10 countries……Sydney Moonbat Herald

Muslims engaging in “anti-Islamic activity.”

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has come to epitomize this newspeak, declaring in January 2008 that terrorism would henceforth be known as “anti-Islamic activity,” since “there is nothing Islamic about the wish to terrorize” — jihadists’ claims to the contrary. The Home Office soon confirmed that phrases like “Islamic extremism” had been jettisoned due to fears that they inflame Muslims. Previously the Foreign Office hadasked ministers to stop alluding to the “war on terror” for the same reason. Yet if terrorism is “anti-Islamic activity,” would not the “war on terror” be pro-Islamic?  More>>

Calling them goatf*kcers makes them goatf*kcers, right?

The Age/ thanks to Dhumme Dhimmi

Kevin Rudd has failed to learn the old wartime truism — ‘‘loose lips sink ships’’.

In war, what we say matters almost as much as how we fight.

By spouting off about the threat of ‘‘jihadist’’ terrorism while launching a counter-terrorism white paper today, Rudd is actually damaging efforts to combat the threat.

Why is language so important? Start with that once favoured phrase, ‘‘war on terror’’. As Britain Foreign Secretary David Miliband put it last year: ‘‘The more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines as a simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists or good and evil, the more we play into the hands of those seeking to unify groups with little in common. We should expose their claim to a compelling and overarching explanation and narrative as the lie that it is.’’

Rudd talked today about the divisive narrative espoused by al-Qaeda. That story al-Qaeda weaves with its never ending barrage of leader’s statements and online videos and is one of the movements most potent weapons, portraying Muslims as victims of Western aggression.

So to disrupt that narrative, we should assiduously avoid playing to the pretence that Osama bin Laden and his ilk are ‘‘holy warriors’’. Terms like ‘‘jihadist terrorism’’ should never pass the lips of Western leaders.

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