Taunting in Time of War

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22346
Taunting in a Time of War
by Brett Winterble


As we pass the 6th Anniversary of 9/11, one thing is clear -- America has lost the art of the taunt.

Don’t confuse that statement with a call for further coarsening of the culture, or for people to engage in more insulting discourse -- we already have plenty of that over at the liberal hate blogs. Just take a trip into New York City or Boston, or Philadelphia or Chicago and at any given time, you can be told to “drop dead” in dozens of creative ways and foreign languages. That’s the great global tradition of insults -- I am talking about something different, something special, I am talking about the uniquely American, lost art of the Taunt.

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... “TAUNT” That was the headline on the Drudge Report, for most of 9/11/07 -- Bin Laden calling us out, telling us we were beaten and weak. Osama was telling us that weren’t man enough to take him down. Osama was telling us not only did he knock down our towers and hit the Pentagon on 911 but also that he was recruiting an army of martyrs to do it again and again and again.

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The left wants us to apologize while simultaneously striking our foes -- scratch that, they just want us to apologize for putting those towers in the way of Al Qaeda. They want us to submit, to surrender but never hit back, even verbally. Its absurd; hell we ought to start talking abou reparations to the worldwide jihad movement now before any one gets their feelings hurt.

Well, I for one say it ends now: it’s time to go full court taunt. We need to strike these guys at their core -- at their manhood. We need to portray Osama and Mahmood foot tapping each other in a men’s room stall. We need to recut Brokeback Mountain with Bashsar Assad and Ayman Al Zawahiri as the lonely cowboys…We need to call these jihadis the sissy men that they are and laugh at them. We need to stop respecting our enemies and start beating them. They need to be dehumanized because they are not human. We need to make 'em quake with our taunts. We need to beat them AND make them feel bad. Our national honor demands it.

Who’s with me? Hey, Osama: be afraid. Be very afraid. We’re sending a bunch of little blue-haired grannies to kick your butt. They’re sick and tired of being searched at airports.

 

What difference does it make how many troops we have in Afghanistan when Bin Laden isn't there?

Looking to invade Pakistan?

 

That is contrary to your statement that the number of troops in Afghanistan makes a difference when it comes to the capture or killing of Bin Laden. Make up your mind.

Besides, Liberals destroyed most of the CIA's covert capabilities in the middle east long ago. You make it sound easy. It's not. The CIA doesn't put out suicide operatives.

 

No, he didn't. That's your spin.

But you didn't really respond to my post. You kind of changed subjects and went off on a rant.

Frustration, perhaps.:BangHead:

 

Don't need it. The issue is not what Bush said, but what you said he said.

You wrote : "Here's a clue. Bush didn't want to take bin Laden."

Nowhere in the quotes you've listed does he say that. It's your spin, pure and simple.

 

Here's a nice accurate quote for you.

"No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers fought so dearly to preserve.

It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and the land of Oz."

Bob Beskar