I watched a movie made years ago, Gardens of Stone, starring James Earl Jones, James Caan, Angelica Huston, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It was a serious movie and well done, with unresolved differences over the Vietnam War exposed and fleshed out a bit. The “Gardens” are, of course, military cemeteries.
I carry one lasting memory from the movie (two, actually, the other having to do with “asexual reproduction”). In the following scene. Sgt, ‘Goody’ Nelson and Jackie Willow, a recruit who wants to go to Vietnam, are at a bar.
Goody: It’s a funny little war, kid. Things have changed.
Willow: Like what?
Goody: Well, to begin with…the peace-loving Vietnamese – if I hear that again, I’ll puke. They’re bellicose. They’ve fought for a thousand years, and they like it.
Willow: Damn right.
Coppola, no stranger to irony, surely knew the absurdity of these words. These were men devoid of self-awareness.
Muslims are a very clean people, and a peaceful people by any standards. They fight their turf wars, they have criminals and rigid religious constructs and extremists, just like us. Many Americans have now done a ‘Goody’ on them, branding them a violent people who give us no choice but to rain hell on them.
Muslims, when they defecate, are advised by the Qur’an to be fastidious, to clean the anal area with water and the hands thereafter to avoid any contamination of other people or food.
Americans wipe the anal area with paper, spreading the fecal matter about, and leaving it to fester until their next shower. Dr. D.A. Cameron surveyed the underpants of 940 Englishmen, and found contamination ranging from colored stains to “frank massive feces”. He was disillusioned of them that “a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as tomato sauce on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their fecally stained pants.”
I can think of no better image of the Americans who are currently slaughtering Muslims in our latest holy wars.
Please reconcile your claims with the facts. http://www.aina.org/news/20091123162710.htm
and the violence in the Phillipines. How many deaths and acts of violence does it take?
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Check your shorts.
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What a juvenile reply. See ya.
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Didn’t read the post, I gather.
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Craig,
So, how many anecdotal stories do I need to provide you in the deaths of hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of Muslims at the hand of Western Armies before you get it?
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Good post, Mark.
In all war, the first item of the battle plan is to demean and dehumanize the enemy.
It is harder to kill people than it is to kill merely animals.
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