From the print and online editions of the nation's premier urban-policy magazine http://www.city-journal.org/cj-comments.xml?story=7540 Manhattan Institute Conservatives still cannot see middle east events without some distortions and a hand picking of causes and events. Aside from that, the observations on America's placidity before 9/11, and the new paradigm of mass destruction was very a good read. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11831 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11831 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:05:58 EST Commenters, wow! Some of you fellas start the body counts in fairly recent times yet don't mention those of Chairman Mao or of Stalin or others or of the other side in actual conflicts involving mentioned engagements. What kind of sense of right and wrong must one have to mention only Dresden in regards to ca. 1930s-40s Germany and Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in regards Japan ca. the same time? Read any history books? Can you identify agressor from defender - even if you might think some methods extreme? Bizarre. You folks that are worried about the feelings of the third revealed religion (feelings of an idea?) might think back to the end of the Ottoman Empire or perhaps the earlier ejection from Spain of the Moors to figure where any sense of impotence might come from. What is the theory anyway? They earlier cleansed the area of infidels so none may come back or the whiners will whine for decades - and also blow up school children? You support that? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11454 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11454 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:02:13 EST The key things required: unarmored cockpit doors, unarmed pilots behind them, and pacified passengers. Deliberate features installed by our brilliant experts. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11452 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11452 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:43:34 EST If war mongering, baby murdering, imperialistic, nation invading, resource stealing, corrupt, foreign government overthrowing, dirt bag America would stay out of other countries and buy our supplies and goods as needed instead of trying to steal everything this would not have happened. We cannot even take care of our own country or our starving, homeless people but we go to other countries to cause trouble. You better watch out. The Business of America Is War by Stephen Lendman http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/lendman11.1.html http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11451 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11451 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:01:51 EST I took my first loan when I was a teenager and this supported my relatives a lot. However, I require the car loan over again. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11444 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11444 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:23:59 EST @JA Russell What an odd string of examples you cite for the idea that "terrorizing civilians" isn't new. Here's my own prejudiced string of examples: Dresden; firebombing of Tokyo; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Operation Phoenix; civilian death toll in IRAQ I and II combined. Now let's tally my death count versus yours and see who exactly are--and who are not--the terrorizers of civilians. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11442 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11442 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:01:06 EST I read through the comments and now I am confused. A comment by Bob Silentio makes me wonder if Islam is pressing a sexual harassment complaint. "America insulted Islam..." "It furthered the insult..." "Islam felt insulted and impotent..." Is "felt insulted" equivalent to "was made to feel uncomfortable?" http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11439 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11439 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:26:09 EST He acts like terrorizing civilians is something recent. It isn't. That was the raison d'etre of the chevauchee of the Hundred Years War. What's new is the perpetrators successfully packaging their mayhem as noble deeds. LA burns and shopkeepers are shot? Hey - they were mad about the Rodney King verdict. A guy wanders the aisle of a commuter train shooting passengers? Perfectly understandable. Black Rage. A tourist bus is hijacked and all passengers are murdered? Well, Palestinians feel put-upon. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11438 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11438 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:07:44 EST @Bob Silentio : nonsense. Search for, and read, "The Philosopher of Islamic Terror" which appeared in the March 23, 2003 edition of the New York Times Magazine. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11434 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11434 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:48:28 EST What utter tosh! America insulted Islam by supporting the founding of the state of Israel. It furthered the insult by arming and financing Israel for decades. Israel behaved like pigs in a sweetshop toward the Palestinians. Islam felt insulted and impotent when the attempts to drive out the jews failed. They then resorted to a kind of warfare which you are pleased to call 'terrorism' but which we called 'resistance' when used against the Germans. There is more afoot here Andre, than is dreamt of in your 'philosphy'. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11433 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11433 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:28:40 EST Excellent article, and I love Rostislav's analogy of the eloi and marloks. :) http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11432 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11432 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:53:55 EST The worst thing about all this is not the Islam’s radical and merciless hatred being still here. The worst thing is absence of any adequate resistance to this hatred. The hatred is clearly growing, the resistance is as clearly diminishing, from Russia and Australia to Europe and America. The results of this process were excellently predicted by Wells in his “Time Machine” �" very civilized but very helpless eloi being happily devoured by very uncivilized but very determined morloks. Rostislav, Saint-Petersburg, Russia http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11431 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=7540#11431 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:33:14 EST