Wednesday, April 07, 2004
OCCUPIER OR LIBERATOR
There I was, just minding my own business, making my coffee, at around 6:10 this morning. On a re-run of FOX's "Your World" (broadcast live, April 6) popped up Eleanor Clift. After having offered several statements re-affirming that she has indeed been on planet "la-la" for most of the past 2 1/2 years, she blurted out this "brilliance":
"The primary goal of an occupying power is to restore security". (I have not yet found the transcript, but that is verbatim what I heard her say; I scribbled it down seconds after it came out of her mouth.)
Really? Since freakin' when!?
Occupiers are thieves. They take. They kill as they see fit. They are interested only in the security of their own forces; the daily life of the population be damned. Nazis strung up people indiscriminately by the hundreds for killing one German soldier. Somebody ought to tell Clift that this is what an "occupying power" does:
. . .On May 27, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, head of the RSHA, the Reichsprotektor of Czechoslovakia, the man who had convened the Wannsee Conference only four months previously, was severely wounded in a grenade attack on his car near Prague by two Czech parachutists sent from London by the Czech government-in-exile. The two Czechs managed to leave the scene and took refuge in the Karl Borromaeus Church in Prague.
On June 4, Heydrich died of his wounds. The Nazis swore revenge: they ordered the execution of ten thousand Czechs and threatened the expulsion of millions. The Karl Borromaeus Church, where the assassins and more than one hundred members of the Czech resistance were hiding, was besieged. Everyone in the church was killed by the SS. . .
. . .At dawn on June 10, all the residents of Lidice, a village ten miles outside Prague, were taken from their homes. They were shot in batches of ten at a time behind a barn. By late afternoon, 192 men and boys and 71 women had been murdered. The other women were sent to concentration camps. The children were dispersed, some to concentration camps, although a few who were considered sufficiently Aryan were sent to Germany. The SS then razed the town and tried to eradicate its memory. The name of Lidice was expunged from all official records. . .
In stark and clear contrast, in Iraq the coalition are liberators. The notion of doing anything remotely along the lines of the above, in retaliation for coalition deaths, is not even in the distant rear of anyone's mind. Liberators are interested in liberating a people, not in slaughtering them.
It would be nice if commentators like Clift had some idea of what the hell they are talking about, BEFORE they open their big, ignorant yaps. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, April 07, 2004
There I was, just minding my own business, making my coffee, at around 6:10 this morning. On a re-run of FOX's "Your World" (broadcast live, April 6) popped up Eleanor Clift. After having offered several statements re-affirming that she has indeed been on planet "la-la" for most of the past 2 1/2 years, she blurted out this "brilliance":
"The primary goal of an occupying power is to restore security". (I have not yet found the transcript, but that is verbatim what I heard her say; I scribbled it down seconds after it came out of her mouth.)
Really? Since freakin' when!?
Occupiers are thieves. They take. They kill as they see fit. They are interested only in the security of their own forces; the daily life of the population be damned. Nazis strung up people indiscriminately by the hundreds for killing one German soldier. Somebody ought to tell Clift that this is what an "occupying power" does:
. . .On May 27, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, head of the RSHA, the Reichsprotektor of Czechoslovakia, the man who had convened the Wannsee Conference only four months previously, was severely wounded in a grenade attack on his car near Prague by two Czech parachutists sent from London by the Czech government-in-exile. The two Czechs managed to leave the scene and took refuge in the Karl Borromaeus Church in Prague.
On June 4, Heydrich died of his wounds. The Nazis swore revenge: they ordered the execution of ten thousand Czechs and threatened the expulsion of millions. The Karl Borromaeus Church, where the assassins and more than one hundred members of the Czech resistance were hiding, was besieged. Everyone in the church was killed by the SS. . .
. . .At dawn on June 10, all the residents of Lidice, a village ten miles outside Prague, were taken from their homes. They were shot in batches of ten at a time behind a barn. By late afternoon, 192 men and boys and 71 women had been murdered. The other women were sent to concentration camps. The children were dispersed, some to concentration camps, although a few who were considered sufficiently Aryan were sent to Germany. The SS then razed the town and tried to eradicate its memory. The name of Lidice was expunged from all official records. . .
In stark and clear contrast, in Iraq the coalition are liberators. The notion of doing anything remotely along the lines of the above, in retaliation for coalition deaths, is not even in the distant rear of anyone's mind. Liberators are interested in liberating a people, not in slaughtering them.
It would be nice if commentators like Clift had some idea of what the hell they are talking about, BEFORE they open their big, ignorant yaps. ¶ by Robert, Wednesday, April 07, 2004
