tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5655288130014752641..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Brother BombersStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61709381989121770862013-04-22T19:32:39.707-07:002013-04-22T19:32:39.707-07:00I've got this great idea...
Let's notice ...I've got this great idea...<br /><br />Let's notice something, and pretend we don't. Let's just put our heads in the sand and hope that a miracle will happen before we suffocate. Let's just hope that the obvious thing we see right in front of us just goes away. Let's make pretend.<br /><br />Let's pretend that we don't notice that they're insane, and Muslim, and from Chechnya. Let's pretend we don't notice that they packed ball bearings in pressure cookers to maximize casualties. <br /><br />Someone such as Charles could probably extrapolate that the people in the World Trade Center were part of the problem of some rigged, terribly wrong game of global finance that takes advantage of other less fortunate, less sophisticated people. Screwy idea, but I'd still be listening with my air sickness bag in the ready.<br /><br />But the idea that cruise missiles in a combat zone have anything to do with blowing up amateur runners and admiring spectators on a national holiday is pretty wacky. I don't give a @#$% whether they did it with a sword in hand... it's still evil.<br /><br />And to Mr. R.B., I would suggest to you that this is, in fact, a disgusting attempt to humanize these monsters and somehow get us to understand that they liked apple pie and Coca-Cola, just like us. The only little inconvenience is that it doesn't matter to me whether they liked frisbees or the Red Sox or any of their irrelevant preferences. Sure, they are human, but it is irrelevant to the reason they're on the news. They're not on the news because they like being a bleeding stowaway on someone's backyard boat. They're on the news because they're psychotic murderers. Bring Oliver Stone in to humanize them... I'm sure he can find someone who will dig deep and prove that they're just patsies. I'm sure George W. Bush did it.<br /><br />I saw this Atlantic article online today about how we are not to judge the fact that the brothers are Muslim, that "it shouldn't matter":<br />http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/the-boston-bombers-were-muslim-it-shouldnt-matter-this-is-why-it-does/275154/<br /><br />Please. Stop. Please. Now. Give me peace. Please stop judging people for judging. The person who wrote this is a columnist, for God's sake. She gets paid to share her opinion. Her judgments about people who are passing judgment are in fact... judgments! Human beings pass judgments every day. To not judge is impossible, and the people who say they don't judge are compulsive liars (which is a judgment). We pass judgments because they align with our experience, and we're trying to make sense of an insane world. <br /><br />The evangelical Christian terrorist groups are not on the news very much, are they? And please don't waste my time trying to equate people today who are Christian and kill with people who kill in the name of Jesus Christ. You will not find them, because it is not Christian. Yet there are plenty of people who kill in the name of Allah, Mohammed and Islam. This is because Islam is a religion based on submission to Allah. This is laudable when peaceably practiced. The problem is that there are lunatics who are able to (and are encouraged to) interpret the Koran as saying that they should go out into the world and have other people submit to Islam, against their will. I will not submit. Now what? Am I to die? According to these monsters, not only will I die, but I deserve to die. According to their judgment. Good luck not judging such people. That's a suicide pact.<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62426708729123476392013-04-22T05:33:44.763-07:002013-04-22T05:33:44.763-07:00Charles,
So what we are saying is that we deserve...Charles,<br /><br />So what we are saying is that we deserved it and of course it is so much better to kill a large number of American soldiers so we can experience all the blood and gore of war and not feel good about not killing them man to man?<br />I am having trouble feeling sorry for people who commit terrorism. Their motive for this terrorism is that America is such a bad country that anything that others want to do to it is just retribution. <br />We are damned if we deal with the leadership of other countries. We are damned if we help those who would overthrow those countries. We are damned if we do something and we are damned if we don't.<br />A rather convient excuse I think for those who just don't like this country or its citizens. I am quite familiar with coming back from a war zone and getting what seemed, "How come you are not dead?" in their underlying commentary.<br />I surely hoped I am misreading your comments.<br />Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19897864647725618172013-04-22T04:49:38.686-07:002013-04-22T04:49:38.686-07:00Long ago when you killed someone in war, you did s...Long ago when you killed someone in war, you did so while looking into his eyes. You saw the life in him leave his body. You saw the pain that you inflicted on your enemy. You felt, smelled and saw what a lifeless body is like when you cleared the battlefield. <br /><br />Now we can kill hundreds, thousands and even millions with pilotless cruise missiles, and drones piloted by twenty something techies sitting in the Arizona desert. The people we kill have become nothing more than a number on a ledger. We no longer look into their eyes as we kill them.<br /><br />We can expect as much compassion from our enemies when they kill us as we have for them when we kill them. Just numbers on a ledger.Charles A Pennisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02376911676707957517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51410647527210915012013-04-22T03:02:57.599-07:002013-04-22T03:02:57.599-07:00Thank you for the link, Bob.Thank you for the link, Bob.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-74665475396952383672013-04-21T18:25:46.568-07:002013-04-21T18:25:46.568-07:00Linked here: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2013/04/...Linked here: http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2013/04/more-expressions-of-shame-please.htmlBob's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971565970366294930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-76853133601155289922013-04-21T13:32:31.905-07:002013-04-21T13:32:31.905-07:00What I meant to say was that some people commit ac...What I meant to say was that some people commit acts that are so evil that we do not believe them worthy of human sympathy or understanding. In common language, they are considered to be monsters, as opposed to one of us.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5276498942502719692013-04-21T12:52:31.243-07:002013-04-21T12:52:31.243-07:00hello sir, I linked through to your post from neo-...hello sir, I linked through to your post from neo-neo-con.<br /><br />you have interesting ideas here, but I must take exception to your statements at the outset, to wit, the notion that somehow `the left' will attempt to `humanize' these two who, allegedly involved in the bombing.<br /><br />I hate to sound sarcastic, but are they not human already?<br /><br />Sure, I will concur that left-wing opinion will attempt, in some measure at least, to excuse their actions; but don't you really mean to say that this school of anti-anti-terrorism (as I call it) will attempt to make them `sympathetic' rather than `human'?<br /><br />Just wondering.RB Glenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16916044843808043297noreply@blogger.com