Crusader War College

That's the term being applied to Condolezza Rice in this MSNBC website news link to the Washington Post article about her taking over at the State Department.

She may have changed the direction of State at the top, but there's still a lot of cruft and near-treasonous appeasers in the lower ranks: The attitude at Foggy Bottom (in opposition to the guys out in the field) seems to be to serve other nations in dealing with the United States, rather than serving the United States to deal with other nations.

The difference is significant.

Via an Email from Tamar comes an interview with Pierre Rehov, documentary filmmaker, on the psychology behind suicide bombings. Read the whole thing, but the following is noteworthy (despite it's neo-freudianism):

What insights did you gain from making this film? What do you know that other experts do not know?

I came to the conclusion that we are facing a neurosis at the level of an entire civilization. Most neuroses have in common a dramatic event, generally linked to an unacceptable sexual behavior. In this case, we are talking of kids living all their lives in pure frustration, with no opportunity to experience sex, love, tenderness or even understanding from the opposite sex. The separation between men and women in Islam is absolute. So is contempt toward women, who are totally dominated by men. This leads to a situation of pure anxiety, in which normal behavior is not possible. It is no coincidence that suicide killers are mostly young men dominated subconsciously by an overwhelming libido that they not only cannot satisfy but are afraid of, as if it is the work of the devil. Since Islam describes heaven as a place where everything on earth will finally be allowed, and promises 72 virgins to those frustrated kids, killing others and killing themselves to reach this redemption becomes their only solution.

It is not necessary for kids to "experience sex": Initimacy is what is required, but something that is emotional and intellectual can be satisfying enough until maturity arrives.

What was it like to interview would-be suicide bombers, their families and survivors of suicide bombings?

It was a fascinating and a terrifying experience. You are dealing with seemingly normal people with very nice manners who have their own logic, which to a certain extent can make sense since they are so convinced that what they say is true. It is like dealing with pure craziness, like interviewing people in an asylum, since what they say, is for them, the absolute truth. I hear a mother saying "Thank God, my son is dead." Her son had became a shaheed, a martyr, which for her was a greater source of pride than if he had became an engineer, a doctor or a winner of the Nobel Prize. This system of values works completely backwards since their interpretation of Islam worships death much more than life. You are facing people whose only dream, only achievement is to fulfill what they believe to be their destiny, namely to be a shaheed or the family of a shaheed. They don't see the innocent being killed, they only see the impure that they have to destroy.

Reminds one of the closed universe of Liberal Trolls.

Now the following is interesting. I've bolded the part in Mr. Rehov's response.

Is there a suicide bomber personality profile? Describe the psychopathology.

Generally kids between 15 and 25 bearing a lot of complexes, generally inferiority complexes. They must have been fed with religion. They usually have a lack of developed personality. Usually they are impressionable idealists. In the western world they would easily have become drug addicts, but not criminals. Interestingly, they are not criminals since they don't see good and evil the same way that we do. If they had been raised in an Occidental culture, they would have hated violence. But they constantly battle against their own death anxiety. The only solution to this deep-seated pathology is to be willing to die and be rewarded in the after life in Paradise.

Now, I should point out that Mr. Rehov is not a Psychologist or Psychiatrist, but a film maker and director, so I'd take his psychology prescriptions with a beaker of salt. However, the following quote is telling: " In the western world they would easily have become drug addicts, but not criminals. Interestingly, they are not criminals since they don't see good and evil the same way that we do. "

In other words, this guy is a liberal asshat: To him, criminality is not objective, but subjective. Criminality is not founded on the provable violation of objectively stated laws, but based on what one believes to be right and wrong. Here's another quote from Mr. Rehov to prove his liberalism:

Describe the culture that manufactures suicide bombers.

Oppression, lack of freedom, brain washing, organized poverty, placing God in charge of daily life, total separation between men and women, forbidding sex, giving women no power whatsoever, and placing men in charge of family honor, which is mainly connected to their women's behavior.

In short, this is not a wild-eyed radical right-ist, but a living, breathing, quite-actual-liberal asshat.

However, he is a MUGGED liberal asshat. Realism forces upon him the following (my emphasis):

What role does the U.N. play in the terrorist equation?

The UN is in the hands of Arab countries and third world or ex-communists countries. Their hands are tied. The UN has condemned Israel more than any other country in the world, including the regime of Castro, Idi Amin or Kaddahfi. By behaving this way, the UN leaves a door open by not openly condemning terrorist organizations.

But wait! There's MORE!

In addition, through UNRWA, the UN is directly tied to terror organizations such as Hamas, representing 65 percent of their apparatus in the so-called Palestinian refugee camps. As a support to Arab countries, the UN has maintained Palestinians in camps with the hope to "return" into Israel for more than 50 years, therefore making it impossible to settle those populations, which still live in deplorable conditions. Four-hundred million dollars are spent every year, mainly financed by U.S. taxes, to support 23,000 employees of UNRWA, many of whom belong to terrorist organizations (see Congressman Eric Cantor on this subject, and in my film "Hostages of Hatred").

The following two quotes are out of order because I wanted to emphasize Mr. Rehov's orthodox liberalism first.. However, they are worth noting:

Do all Muslims interpret jihad and martyrdom in the same way?

All Muslim believers believe that, ultimately, Islam will prevail on earth. They believe this is the only true religion and their is no room, in their mind, for interpretation. The main difference between moderate Muslims and extremists is that moderate Muslims don't think they will see the absolute victory of Islam during their life time, therefore they respect other beliefs. The extremists believe that the fulfillment of the Prophecy of Islam and ruling the entire world as described in the Koran, is for today. Each victory of Bin Laden convinces 20 million moderate Muslims to become extremists.

and....

How can we put an end to the madness of suicide bombings and terrorism in general?

Stop being politically correct and stop believe (sic) that this culture is a victim of ours. Radical Islamism today is nothing but a new form of Nazism. Nobody was trying to justify or excuse Hitler in the 1930s. We had to defeat him in order to make peace one day with the German people.

This article is significant because there is a lot of debate about the existance of "moderate" Muslims. Mr. Rehov believes that they DO exist, but that they are transmorgifying into Islamists, not because of the supposed crimes done against Islam, but because of the responses of the world to Islamist crimes.

I think it is entirely reasonable, when a Moderate muslim sees technologically and militarily superior people giving in to the unreasonable demands of Islamists and the Palestinians, for him to think "Hey, maybe it CAN happen in my lifetime!"

The moment he believes that it CAN happen, here, now, in THIS lifetime, and starts to act on it, THEN he becomes an Islamist.

It would HELP to make sure there's power to the hub...

Via Brothers Judd, comes this enlightening little excerpt:

He was polite as he welcomed me into his home. The house was surrounded by a high cement wall that had been fortified with steel. We sat down in a large, simply furnished room whose walls were inscribed with verses from the Koran. On one wall was a poster showing green birds flying in a purple sky, a symbol of the Palestinian suicide bombers.

S had just turned 27. He is slight, and he walked with a limp, the only trace of his near-death. He invited his wife to join us, and he answered my questions without hesitation.

I asked him when, and why, he had decided to volunteer for martyrdom. “In the spring of 1993, I began to pester our military leaders to let me do an operation,” he said. “It was around the time of the Oslo accords, and it was quiet, too quiet. I wanted to do an operation that would incite others to do the same. Finally, I was given the green light to leave Gaza for an operation inside Israel.”

“How did you feel when you heard that you’d been selected for martyrdom?” I asked.

“It’s as if a very high, impenetrable wall separated you from Paradise or Hell,” he said. “Allah has promised one or the other to his creatures. So, by pressing the detonator, you can immediately open the door to Paradise — it is the shortest path to Heaven.”

There's more at the link. It's a long article detailing the involved process of choosing and preparing a suicide, er genocide, bomber. What's interesting is that if the bomber wavers during the preparation period, he's not immediately washed out but has an experienced handler come in to encourage him.

Those who insist that there is not a religious component to the War on Terror are insisting on looking around the streetlight when they lost their keys down the sewer.

At Michael Yon's blog, via Rantburg, comes a haunting photo...

Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers.

Michael Moore's minutemen at work...

If it can give a welcome surge of energy to a U.S soldier in the Iraqi desert, then it should do the trick for a runner, a hiker, a third-shift worker or even an on-the-go mom.

The Army even calls it "warrior-tested."

What is it?

The new HOOAH! Bar, an energy bar that has earned praise from soldiers, is now being distributed in U.S. commercial retail outlets and via the Internet.

"The soldiers love it. Its performance is off the hook," said Christian D'Andrea, who with his brother, Mark, licensed the federally registered trademark HOOAH! from the Army for commercial sales last year.

"But the other thing is, the war fighter simply liked it in terms of taste," he added.

The bar is scheduled to hit major retailers this summer, including Wal-Mart, CVS, 7-Eleven and GNC, and a portion of the proceeds are going back to the Army laboratories that create food products for troops in the field.

I've been on a cruise in the Carribean, and am now heading back to port, trying to outrun hurricane Dennis, when news of the London Bombings hit the news.

We at the War College stand in solidarity with our British cousins: all members of the Fighting Anglosphere have now been hit by terrorism.

More on this later. In the meantime, there are only two alternatives available to us: We can either fight on until we win, or give up and give in. Any who thinks that, having "defeated" the west. that those who oppose it will somehow then cease and desist with their initial set of demands, simply have not looked within: The trolls who infest this and other sites WOULD NOT GIVE UP if they scented a win in one area, but would go on and press their advantage in another area. They themselves demonstrate the behaviour when they "win", and yet will deny that terrorists will display when they "win". This sort of miraculous "exclusion" from natural consequences that they somehow enjoy, but is denied to others not of their agreement, is their exclusive hallmark.

Never give up. Never give in.

Comments are shut down while we're on vacation. Have a great 4th of July, be sure to single out our military for extra special thanks and appreciation, and see ya after the 8th.