This'll be a Short One. (Except for a Later Edit, in Which 2 or 3 Further Thoughts / Developments are Addressed)
Bomb(s) were Found Under a Railroad which Carries the Spanish Bullet Train.
And
Several Al Qaida Types in Spain just Blew Themselves Up!, as Authorities "Came to their Door"!
Signs and Indications Continue Only to be Evident!
Keep Abreast!, And Be Ready to Be Ready!
I'm Not Automatically saying that Something Further *Will* Happen from Such Likes! But it Quite Well Enough May!
Three Further Things have Since Occurred to me, which I'm now Adding in an Edit.
One's that there are the Four American Civilians (Former Military Yes,-but in a Civilian Contractor Role now) who were Slain and Undignified, Abused, and Etc. as They Were.
This is Another Development, Another Bad Sign as I speak of.
The Peace Preferring Crowd may Cite this as a Reason to Bug Out.
But that is Precisely What Not to Do!, That is Precisely What our Trouble Raising, Sworn Enemies, -Are Trying to Egg U.S. on to Do! They're Trying to Ratchet Up the "Go Home" Pressure a Good Bit! They See a Tendancy for Weakness and Irresolution on our Part Here! Frustrated that it Hasn't Worked for Them as Early as They Thot it Might!, -They're Saying something like!, -"They'll Come Around!" (To Translate it into "Americanese"). Our Casualties over there Markedly Declined over the Last Good Number of Weeks. But They so Opposing U.S. Got Back on their Bean, and Are Ratcheting Up the "Displeasure Pressure" on U.S. Again! Tempting our Softer Side! *Don't Give in to It!*
This is a Fight! In a Mortal Hand to Hand Struggle! One that We, (Aside from Maybe some General Moral, Economic, and Defense Lapses in our Society), -Didn't Start. ,-You *Keep* At It!, and For a *Long* Term! (For the Duration! / As Long as It Takes!). And *You* Keep Applying *Your* Greater Strength, Properly Directed at any Given Moment, -on Him! You Don't just Magnanimously "Nicen Up"!, -in the Midst of your Mortal Struggle for Survival!
Reminds me of a Old Time Drawing I've Seen of an Indian and a White Man Locked into such a Mortal Struggle! Each Knew it was either "Me or Him"! Each Knew It Came Down to Their Very Life! "And It Ain't Gonna be Me!",-Both Thought! As Neither Relinquished the Struggle!
We in the West, and to our Peril, -Are Not Entirely Like That!
I'm also Reminded of the Anti-Vietnam War Protesters, -Who'd Put Flowers into the Barrels of National Guard Guns! Well Thats Very Nice! And Peace *Ideally* is the Way!
But Had They Gone Over to Indochina Themselves and Try to Do That! Walk Up and Try to Put some Flowers into North Viet or VC Guns, -While They're Trying to Stage for an Offensive! (Or at Any Other Time). -Not Only would the North and VC Laugh at Them to their Face! But They'll Use Those Guns to Mow Them Down! The Peace Movement could Do such here at Home in the U.S., -Because They Knew that in All Great Liklihood, -as Well as out of their Naivete, -That our Authorities wouldn't Shoot! Yes, Exceptions like Kent State sometimes Occurred. Authorities were sometimes Pushed, Accidents or Other Miscalculations sometimes Occurred. But as a General and Prevalent Rule!, We Thought Better, -Than to Just Mow Down our Owc Citizens Like That!, -Tienanmen Style.
Well, -Our Real Enemies Out There Continue to See Some Real and Marked Predisposition for Soft Sided Weakness on our Part!
Here at Home, -We Straddle the Hawk / Dove Fence! And Even to the Extent that Many of U.S. are on the Hawk Side, -We're Uncomfortable with It! We're Softening Up in the Mortal Hand to Hand Struggle! Our Enemies Figure to Tilt our Fence Straddling Balance!, -Over Their Way! "Keep At Em!", They Say Among Themselves. "They'll Tire of It!" It's like a Popular Wager Going Around!, in Their World! -"How Many Americans / Westerners Dead, Etc, Does it Take?, -Before They Revert to Form and "Soften Over"!?"
I'm Oppossed to Trigger Happiness as Well as Gun Shyedness!
But We're Going Around with our Tail Between our Legs!, Too Much! What Ever Happened to that Good Ole American Gut! / Can Do Spirit!? Back in All the Vietnam Protests, -I Used to Similarly Wonder, -"What Ever Happened to that Good Ole, GI Joe, "Get Charlie!" Spirit!?"
We've Got Work to Do!, -Before we Can Again Afford to Do Much Nicening Up! Our Work's Now Cut Out for U.S.!
I'm a Very Warm and Fuzzy Person! But I Know that When Engaged in a Mortal Hand to Hand Struggle like That!, -That This is *Not* Such a Time!, -For Such Softish, Warm and Fuzzy, Nicening Up!
Lets Face It!, -Our Real Enemies Out There!, -Came Running at U.S. in This Fight! We Didn't Start it by Throwing a First Punch, -Our Home Front Lapses over Decades Notwithstanding!
It's Now a Mortal Struggle All the Same! You Don't Soften Up Any *Within* Such!
Well, Our Real Enemies Out There, -Are Holding Out this Temptation and Teaser on U.S.! They're Trying to Ratchet Up the Pressure! Don't Softishly Fall For It! Keep in the Fight Till We've Got it Won!
They are Some of the Most Outrageous! They're the Ones Who just Cold Bloodedly Slit Stewardesses Throats, on 9-11! Don't Mis-Dignify Them!, -With a Give and Throw the Towel In!, -of an Answer!
And Let's Also Feel and Extend as Much Thought and Sympathy to the Four of U.S. so Slain in Iraq!, as We Rightly Have Thought to Do Towards the Two at Home here in Kansas City. A Case Where Terrorism and it's Like Most Probably Had Nothing to Do with It. This is Just What I Feel to be a Due Thought.
This Recent and Sizeable Development Cannot and Should Not Go without Mention here in my Update. (I'm Speaking of the Attack on our Four in Itself, -Not Only All of the Due Sympathy. And So it is Mentioned here.
I've Covered Two of the Three Things that have Since Occurred to me. The Third yet Momentarily Escapes me, and I Don't Know that It'll Return within the Edit Window! So When it Does, It'll be Basically Mentioned Somehow.
Again, This is now Considerably Relevant to General Survival. It May Not Yet be Around the Top of the Totem Pole, -But it Has Moved Up at Least a Few Heads from the Bottom! Keep an Eye and Ear Out!, And Be Prepared and Ready!
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Edited by ScottRezaLogan (04/05/04 04:14 PM)
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