Ghulam Mustafa, a witness at the scene, said he saw bodies with missing heads and limbs.
“This happens only in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Why not America?” he said.
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December 28, 2007
So Far from the United States [Dan Collins]
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Comment by ahem on 12/28 @ 7:39 am #
There’s always tomorrow…
Comment by Big Bang (pumping you up.) on 12/28 @ 7:39 am #
- “….Why not America?â€Â/
- Not enough free parking?
Comment by B Moe on 12/28 @ 7:45 am #
“This happens only in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Why not America?â€Â
Is that a trick question?
Comment by Carin on 12/28 @ 7:56 am #
Humn … that’s a really tough question. Could it be the low concentration of Islamic fundamentalists?
Or perhaps we’re all too distracted by our evil, worldly pleasures to care enough about politics to blow ourselves up.
Comment by otcconan on 12/28 @ 8:01 am #
I seem to remember something like that happening in America 6 years ago.
But then there are those who would rather pretend it never happened.
And I know, you know, and the liberals know (but will never admit it) exactly why it hasn’t happened since.
Comment by Big Bang (pumping you up.) on 12/28 @ 8:04 am #
- “Or perhaps we’re all too distracted by our evil, worldly pleasures to care enough about politics to blow ourselves up.”
- The Islamo-shits still haven’t deduced that most politico’s aren’t worth the cost of the munitions.
- Besides, only a Jihadist is stupid enough to waste hard earned drakma’s on body bombs when they could use the money instead to cover the weekend spread on the Patriots game.
Comment by Carin on 12/28 @ 8:10 am #
Octconan – we all know that 9/11 was set in motion by Bush and the Joooows as an excuse to invade the Middle East. Since the Mission was Accomplished, they don’t need to blow anything else up. Yet.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/28 @ 8:15 am #
there, Carin. Fixed that for you.
Comment by BJTexs on 12/28 @ 8:16 am #
to care enough about
politicsmedieval jihadist religious theology to blow ourselves up.HTML idiot.
Comment by Big Bang (pumping you up.) on 12/28 @ 8:17 am #
- Apparently Libia and Iran figured it out in time Carin.
Comment by Major John on 12/28 @ 8:19 am #
“This happens only in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Why not America?†he said.
Good question – if they figure the answer out, things could get a lot better for an awful lot of people across the world. I have spent 22+ years helping Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Tajiks, Pashtuns, et al., figure that for themselves. Next up, Iraqis.
Comment by Big Bang (pumping you up.) on 12/28 @ 8:23 am #
- ….and let us not forget N. Korea. I’m sure the BushMcChimpyHalaHitlerites have a symbolic sttack plan on WallyWorld just waiting to be put into action.
Comment by daleyrocks on 12/28 @ 8:27 am #
I gotta blame Bush here. Screw you splodeys.
Comment by McGehee on 12/28 @ 9:10 am #
Personal liberty, prosperity and peace are genocide by other means.
(I guess I’m gonna milk that meme for all it’s worth…)
Comment by Jeffersonian on 12/28 @ 9:39 am #
“The Moslems are not without creditable qualities in the least – courage, sobriety, hardiness, hospitality, personal dignity, intense religious belief. These are fine qualities. The thing we will not face is the enormous fact that they have along with all this, not merely from personal sin, but by ingrained, avowed, and convinced philosophy, another quality: a total disregard of human life, whether it is their own or other people’s.” – GK Chesterton
Comment by Carin on 12/28 @ 9:40 am #
In the middle east, isn’t it all the same?
Time will tell, won’t it? Whether or not those countries are absent Islamo-fascists … the ayatollahs in Iran have let flow some righteous nuttiness. Their stoning of gays and female victims of rape doesn’t bode well for their full embracement of the 21st century. Iran may or may not be pursuing nukes; that doesn’t address the man on the street.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 12/28 @ 9:47 am #
McGehee -
Didn’t you mean:
“Personal liberty, prosperity and peace are genocide in a kinder, gentler kind of way”?.
I mean, if you do the ’splodey thing, you might just miss something really cool.
What if Angelina Jolie were to come to your house for a quickie a half hour after you smithereened? I for one would be pissed if I missed THAT!
This is the thought that keeps ME going, anyway.
Comment by SarahW on 12/28 @ 10:04 am #
Because we don’t like to go “poof”?
Comment by Ken on 12/28 @ 10:34 am #
Because over here it is the 21st century, and over there it is the 7th (or thereabouts) century. I read somewhere recently that Spain translates more books into Spanish in one year than the Muslim countries have translated into there language(s) in the last ONE THOUSAND years.
Comment by McGehee on 12/28 @ 10:56 am #
Especially if it turned out all the virgins I was promised were fat, pimple-faced nerd-boys.
Comment by pst314 on 12/28 @ 12:16 pm #
“Why not America?â€Â
To deliberately ignore what the interviewee meant, remember this famous George Bernard Shaw quote? “You see things that are and you ask ‘why’? I dream things that never were and I ask, ‘why not’?†I’m sure Osama’s friends ask that every day.
Comment by Dan Collins on 12/28 @ 12:17 pm #
GBS? I thought that was Bobby Kennedy!
Comment by happyfeet on 12/28 @ 12:20 pm #
Good point, Dan. Bobby Kennedy got assassinated just like Benazir except different. I think Sirhan squared was not really of the Islamic faith though so maybe that doesn’t count.
Comment by Cincinnatus on 12/28 @ 7:45 pm #
“This happens only in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Why not America?†he said.
Fred fucking Thompson.
/imao
Comment by Mike C. on 12/28 @ 10:37 pm #
Well, there’s this…In 1973 Black September terrorists kidnapped American diplomats Cleo Noel and George Moore in Sudan. Their demands included the release of Palestinian prisoners in Jordan and Israel and the release of Sirhan Sirhan, also a Palestinian. Noel and Moore were later tortured and executed on the orders of Yasser Arafat. A few people, not including me, believe the Islamists’ first salvo against the US was not 9/11 or the hostages in Iran but the assassination of Bobby Kennedy.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/28 @ 10:41 pm #
That would be too ironic almost, and you’d think he woulda said something by now, no? Do these guys speculate as to Sirhan’s motive exactly?
Comment by Mike C. on 12/28 @ 11:48 pm #
On further review, Sirhan was/is a Christian. But he was virulently anti-Israel and anti-Semitic and thought America was run by the Jews. The Six Day War quite enraged him. Why he chose RFK as the target I do not know. Some Arab-Americans wanted him to use his trial to make a political statement but his lawyers didn’t think that would play too well (imagine that).
Comment by Patrick Carroll on 12/29 @ 11:47 am #
“This happens only in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Why not America?”
I don’t think he was asking a question. I think he was expressing a hope.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/29 @ 11:57 am #
So I guess the Sirhan lesson is that Benazir-type assassination thingies do happen here just that Islamic people so far aren’t really looking to get in the game of it. Ghulam probably should reflect on this. I think what he would learn is that he is out of touch with the point of view of Islamic people here in the U.S.
Comment by Mike C. on 12/29 @ 2:16 pm #
Right, hf. Without venturing into the reasons this is so, it appears that assassination as a political tool is more acceptable in nations with large Islamic populations than in the US. It would do well for the citizens of those nations to contemplate why this is so moreso than the rest of us.
Trackback by medieval music on 3/2 @ 7:16 pm #
medieval music
Uhhh. Very Interesting.