Madrid Bombing - terrorism
I was out of town when the Madrid bombing happened last week so didn't get a chance to write about it. Wretchard over at
The Belmont Club did it so well that I'm just going to link to what he said. He opens with the following:
bq.
The Ichneumon Wasp
The European left has reacted to news that the suspects in the March 3 Madrid train massacre were Moroccans by blaming the United States, representing it as the vengeance of Al Qaeda which Spain brought on itself for helping America in Iraq. It was natural that Osama, who remembers the fall of the Abassid caliphate well, should recall how the Mongols erected a tower of skulls before every city sacked before sending word ahead that any resistance would suffer the same fate. And so the Spanish victims caused their own deaths by being tardy in submission. The Left is now the messenger boy of Islamofacism. They know their place.
And he closes with a bit that starts:
bq. Steven Jay Gould, in arguing for the existence of natural evil, could find no better analogy than the ichneumon wasp, after which the monster in Alien was modeled, and which not coincidentally describes Islamofacism and its Leftist helpers.
The description of the wasp parallels any description of Islamofacism and it's predatory relationship with the left so closely it gives me the chills. Read it.
Posted by DaveH at March 14, 2004 7:47 PM