Dean's World

...for we're hangin' Danny Deever Hassan Akbar in the mornin'!

Am I the only person who feels dirty from reading the above?

I'd say give the asshole a firing squad, but that would be a waste of good bullets.

Hang him high and burn the rope, perhaps?

Tim,

I've lived through too many incidents of treachery from those people. Therefore, I do not trust them. Because one of my key operative principles is "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

And I too was a soldier in the US Army, more than 50 years ago.

Note that I use our household television set mainly to play DVDs of feature films. I was not aware there even is a rage channel. The only cable TV I get to see is on a small Samsung monitor mounted in front of one of the treadmills at the local fitness center.

Whether what I have to say about these matters sounds politically correct, I could not care less. I think we all have a duty to protect this country and our military from infiltration by enemies as defined by their culture and, if necessary, by their religious notions. Even if those notions are significant to them. Especially if those notions are significant to them.

Because there are some enemies you cannot really deal with, except to kill or be killed. Or make them keep their distance.

And no, I am not interested in getting vengeance on one man who murdered two of his fellow soldiers. I am interested in making sure nobody like that man is ever put into a position of trust ever again by our country, enabling them to kill other Americans.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Tim, I believe Arnold was referring to Islamists, not Muslims.

Or if you don't like Islamist, try Islamofascist, which I prefer.

Casey is right. There are all kinds of islamic people, including all but totally innocuous members of the Bah'ai sect that is persecuted by the islamofascisti, and the traditional Sufi followers of places such as Kashmir.

There have been extended periods in history when islamic Arabs, Persians, Turks and others were the leading nations among the various civilizations. In those times, they frequently served as protectors of freedom of religion, not as persecutors as they frequently do these days.

The problem in our present day world is that madrasas (religious schools) and mosques all across the islamic countries are preaching systematic hatred not only of Christians, Jews, Buddhists and other non-islamic faiths, but also of versions of islam which the islamofascisti seek to obliterate. Some of them come here and end up living out lives as ticking time-bombs, waiting for an opportunity to kill for their version of islam.

Because of the clear and present danger such people obviously represent to us, we must balance our traditional attitudes in which each individuals religious and cultural attachments are his or her own private business, with the need to protect our country, citizens, public buildings, and military forces from attacks by murderous sleepers whose purpose in living is to hurt the rest of us.

This means careful screening for purposes of determining what kind of islam we are talking about, when one of its practitioners is put in a position where the lives of other Americans, including his fellow soldiers, depend absolutely on his loyalty and intentions.

Generally speaking, I do not trust anyone whose private religious or cultural beliefs lead him or her to nurse a destructive grudge against the rest of us in this fundamentally secular society. And unless problems that arise from these grudges either are minimalized or eradicated from our culture, the great commonwealth of the american nation -- the USA -- probably will have a disintegrative future. Which, in my judgement, would be the most terrible event in history.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI