T.D.I.H. - Feb 1

On this date in 1968, General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan summarily executed a Viet Cong terrorist named Nguyễn Văn Lém during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. The general was filmed and photographed as he shot the prisoner with his personal weapon. This image was widely used by the Left and the anti-war forces to discredit our South Vietnamese allies . No one ever mentioned that the terrorist and his death squad had just murdered the entire families of several policemen. The terrorist was not in uniform, and did not fight according to the articles of war, so he was not a POW. The execution was both legal and justified.

A deeper question is the fact that the photo was printed at all in a time of war. Could you possible imagine a US newspaper in 1944 or 1918 printing a similar picture? Because there were plenty of summary executions by our allies in both of those wars.

Benazir Bhutto

Sadly, her death was entirely predictable.

I was attending USC when Indira Gandhi was assassinated in nearby India. Like Bhutto, Gandhi rose to power as a member of a powerful political family, and served multiple terms as Prime Minister of her country. I had a Sikh and an Indian Muslim as two of my roommates at the time. When I got back to my apartment that night they were throwing a party and had invited all of their friends over. They were literally giddy with happiness.

I could only contrast their reaction to the weay the American people reacted when JFK was assassinated. There were no Protestants in the streets celebrating, the Republican Party did not rejoice. We were all stunned, sickened and saddened.

All in all, it was a pretty graphic demonstration for me of just how different cultures could be, and put the final nail in the coffin of multiculturalism as far as I was concerned. ( I was a Political Science/Internation Relations double major at the time)

There will be plenty of violence and celebrating in Pakistan in the week to come. Hopefully things won't get too destabilized.

Never Forget

Today is the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States by Islamic terrorists. We must not, we cannot forget these attacks. Radical Islam declared war on us, and attacked us on our homeland.



It appears that we are soon going to try to cut and run from the war. What people seem to forget is that our choice is not whether or not to fight radical Islam, our enemies have made that choice for us. Our choice is where to fight them. I for one, would much rather fight them in Iraq than the United States.

Bombings in London

Like all right thinking people I heartily condemn the bombings. If there is a hell, there is a place waiting for those who did this.

Unfortunately, these attacks are nothing new for London. They've been dealing with terrorist bombs from the IRA for decades. Things will be back to normal by Monday.

The terrorists miscalculated here, the UK is nothing like cowardly Spain.

Gitmo

I have one question for all of the MSM covering this issue: Why aren't you mentioning the 18 terrorists confirmed to have been released from Gitmo and then later killed or recaptured in battle in Afghanistan and Iraq?

These terrorists are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.

1) They do not wear uniforms.

2) They do not represent a signatory to the convention.

3) And most importantly, they do not extend the protections of the convention to American soldiers.

I have another question for the leftwing wackos comparing American soldiers to NAZIs, Stalin and PolPot: Where was the outrage and condemnation when the North Vietnamese were daily violating the conventions in regards to captured Americans?

Do terrorists read?

One of my first thoughts after the 9/11 attacks was about how they resembled the actions in one of Tom Clancy's books. In one of his books an airliner was used as a weapon. In the book, the plane was crashed into the capitol building, but it was close enough to be weird. In the same book, two of his characters use lasers to blind pilots causing planes to crash. Now comes this: Might terrorists use laser beams on pilots? I wonder what Tom thinks about this? I know I would be slighty freaked out, and pissed as hell.