Frame of Reference

Greenwald has been doing some tremendous writing lately.. everyone should read him regularly..

Of course, if you ask Hamas why they blow themselves up in pizza parlors and shoot rockets at homes in Southern Israel as a response to the 40-year Israeli occupation and recent blockade, they'll tell you the same thing. If you ask Hezbollah why they kidnap Israeli soldiers and lob rockets into Israel in response to Israeli incursions into Lebanon, they'll make the same claim. If you ask Al Qaeda why they fly civilian-filled airplanes into civilian-filled buildings in response to American hegemony (and endless military actions) in their region of the world, they'll explain that jihad is hell and anything done to advance it is justified. You'll hear the same thing if you ask Russians why they destroyed Chechnyan residential blocks, or if you ask Serbian leaders about their genocide, or if you inquire with Rwandan tribal leaders about the brutality of their attacks, or if you ask virtually any other war criminal why they had to resort to such extremes.

I also find it odd that many of the most hard core war cheerleaders are incapable of understand why people do what they do.

You should also be reading Doug regularly as he's got some doozies lately, and one in reference to Israel... and one in reference to yours truly.. but of course he doesn't actually reference me, and calls me arrogant because I actually think he's referring to me when he does his "typical liberal" thing.. you know.. lifting quotes off my blog and such..

I suppose it goes without saying that if these same jackasses that are so rabidly cheering Israel on were instead born.. in say.. Palestine.. or Syria.. or Saudi Arabia.. they'd be hard core Islamic "terrorists", making exactly the same arguments they are now.. staying out of the blood bath as they are now.. sitting behind their keyboards.. feeling the visceral thrill of war.. of bombs.. of death and destruction. They are quite simply psychopaths, all around.

That is a reality that we have to come to terms with. While western European countries have generally found it preferable to not bomb the shit out of everything, it's going to be a long time before the rest of the world catches up.

And do you know why Hamas is a "terrorist" organization? Because they don't have a standing army, attack jets, a navy, and high tech missiles. They make do with what they have... and Abdul Gibbs would be setting the type on his printing press, urging glorious martyrdom in the battle against the crusading Infidels.. without actually picking up a gun himself.