Mark Steyn is, as usual, brilliant, insightful, and sharp as eagle’s talon. (KCRob tipped this, though I had seen it already. But his tip made me decide it was postworthy.)
Some pajama boy at the White House evidently felt getting the First Lady to pose with this week’s Hashtag of Western Impotence would reflect well upon the Administration. The horrible thing is they may be right: Michelle showed she cared – on social media! – and that’s all that matters, isn’t it?
Just as the last floppo hashtag, #WeStandWithUkraine, didn’t actually involve standing with Ukraine, so #BringBackOurGirls doesn’t require bringing back our girls. There are only a half-dozen special forces around the planet capable of doing that without getting most or all of the hostages killed: the British, the French, the Americans, Israelis, Germans, Aussies, maybe a couple of others. So, unless something of that nature is being lined up, those schoolgirls are headed into slavery, and the wretched pleading passivity of Mrs Obama’s hashtag is just a form of moral preening.
An epic disaster would actually be an improvement on this administration’s performance.
After reading all this Pajama Boy estrogenism, I’m spending the remainder of the evening watching Youtube videos on how to home-butcher pork and beef primals. Red meat and sharp knives…
Now I’m sorry I gave away my smoke-locker when I moved last, but I do still have two deep-freezers in the basement.
Remember how that #kony2012 hashtag led to world peace? Worth trying again, amirite?
It all comes down to this:
To a liberal, intention is ALL that matters. Actual results are meaningless.
See, if they can do something that requires no real effort, but is INTENDED to do something good, if someone gets the temerity to actually solve the problem, they can strut around and say, “We helped!” when they did absolutely nothing.
If, on the other hand, it does no good at all, they can say, “Well, we tried, and that’s all that matters, right?” When in reality, no, that ISN’T all that matters.
If, on the GRIPPING hand, it actually ends up doing harm, they can say, “Well, we didn’t MEAN for anything bad to happen, so it CAN’T be our fault, right?” Such kindergarten logic is the reason why they made the phrase, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
Since we’re talking about Internet memes, here’s two that I’m trying to spread — gotta sow my wild oats, bro.
This is my fuck-you to HRC (not the presumptive Democratic front-runner for 2016, but the equal-sign people) for their tireless work in promoting the idea that “domestic partnerships” are the same thing as Jim Crow.
And I think it would be a good idea if gay bareback videos were required to have a Surgeon General’s Warning label just like cigarettes, so this is my proposed wording. (I might redo this graphic with the label superimposed on the cover art of an actual bareback DVD from Treasure Island Media or whatever.)
Pass ’em on like crabs, fellas!
At this point, it doesn’t say a lot about my confidence in our military leaders that I think that the Israelis and the Germans may be more successful than us in saving those girls. That’s not a knock on our special forces, that’s a knock on the pencil necks who are supposed to be commanding them.
The Brits learned a great deal about chasing around the Kenyan countryside and after the Mau Mau whose taste in atrocities against their for has become legend.
20 years ago, the Hutus killed over 800,000 Tutsis in three months of genocidal madness in Rwanda.
Sudan, Somalia, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, etc. are hellholes of repression and ruled by corruption.
What goes on in the veldt, the bush and jungles is what the early British settlers euphemistically called “darkest Africa.” The “tribalism” gone mad is as brutal as it gets.
It is not that “we” can out-gun them. It is that “they” are vicious, malevolent murderers. The fact that these girls are being held for slavery is code that they are for ransom.
If the western powers want them back, they would best be willing to buy them back.
“Community organizers” – all talk and no action; why should we be surprised?
@ heliotrope: I suggest we take a leaf out of the page of Julius Caesar. He was once kidnapped by pirates and ransomed back to the Romans for an exorbitant price. Once the ransom was paid and Caesar secured, the Romans seized the pirates, recovered the ransom, and crucified the pirates.
What is happening in Africa is simply a continuation of what was happening in Africa for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
It is wise to remember that slave traders from the Americas did not march into Africa, capturing and enslaving blacks to bring to America. They went to the marketplace and bought them from other black who had already enslaved them.
I do feel for the girls caught in this nightmare, but I want to know why people are looking to the US for rescue. This strikes me more as a job for the UN, and then Russia and China can contribute. Isn’t Iran on one of the Human Rights Councils? They can contribute, too, thus showing how the whole world is outraged.
My other question is how come we’re only outraged about the girls? What about the boys who were killed a couple of months ago?
@ Louise B: Yes, I’ve wondered why previous acts by Boko Haram did not throw our leaders into a frenzy. Angelina Jolee may be rich, but I find it difficult to image that she is powerful enough to influence U.S. foreign policy.
I think SeanL in #9 is onto something… only the west doesn’t have the will to act in any effective way (that, and the fact that “darkest Africa” and Islam can spawn this sort of savagery at an alarming pace).
Wasn’t there an instance just a few years ago where Somali pirates hijacked a Russian freighter? If I recall, the pirates were, presumably, “lost at sea”. I think Russian freighters now sail relatively unmolested.
One more thing… the west has lost not only the will to act but its sanity.
http://michellemalkin.com/?p=156098 Q.E.D.
#inevitable
The Russians have pirate hunting cruises you can go on where they travel slow through pirate waters and all the passengers can rent full auto weapons. They have former soviet special forces aboard for security.
This is actually the first time the leftist media has pointed out anything bad the muslims do. They left out the part about how the X-TIAN girls are to be sex slaves and that its ok under Islamic law.
In the UK a guy was arrested for quoting Churchill on muslims, because truth is hate speech over there.
STOP KONY!
BRING BACK OUR GIRLS!
Oh, wait…