September 05, 2014

It's deja vu all over again.

A charter jet flying from Afghanistan to to Dubai was in Iranian air space and got intercepted by Iranian fighters and was forced to land at an Iranian airfield.

It was carrying about a hundred Americans (and a couple of Canadians).

For the time being authorities are saying, "Nothing to see here; just routine; they'll be on their way again soon..." but I won't be relaxed until that jet is out of Iranian airspace again.

A hundred Americans being held by Iran... where have I heard this before?

UPDATE: A couple of days ago, a young man in GB used a machete to hack off the head of an 82 year old woman. He was eventually taken into custody. The announcement about it said, "There's no terrorism involved in this."

I'm getting damned sick of being told "Nothing to see here, folks." They say that every damned time even when it's obvious that there is a terrorist component to it. In this case, later reports were that the perp was a recent convert to radical Islam.

The Obama administration has taken the euphemism game to a new high. Having painted yet another red line that no one takes seriously, in this case that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was completely intolerable, then when the Russians went ahead and did it anyway the US State Department refused to call it an invasion. It was an "incursion", I believe they said. An incursion isn't an invasion so we don't have to respond to it like Obama effectively promised he would.

Even after all this time, they refuse to admit that the crazy Arab military psychiatrist who shot up an American military base and killed 13 people and wounded 30 more was engaging in jihad. "Workplace Violence", folks, nothing to see here; move along. Never mind that recently he asked to be granted citizenship in ISIS. (Fat chance; he's in Leavenworth under a death sentence.)

Our leaders are less concerned with us being safe, or us being honestly informed, than they are with an imagined uprising of knuckledragging rednecks engaging in violence against Muslims.

Now never mind that there's never been any such thing happening. Not even after 9/11, which was Islamic terrorism, beyond any dispute. American rednecks did not rise up and reign reciprocal terror on American Muslims after that, nor has anything like that happened since. The ethnicity which has most often been victim of various kinds of abuse (including violence) was before, and still is, Jews. And a lot of that has been by Muslims.

So let's review two facts:

1. The vast majority of Muslims are not terrorists.

2. The vast majority of terrorists are Muslims.

Americans understand principle #1. Authorities are trying their hardest to paint over #2, even though everyone knows it.

It would be a pleasant experience for our government to be honest with us for a change, wouldn't it? And to trust us?

UPDATE: The jet is now in Dubai. Whew!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 03:12 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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1 As others have previously observed, why wouldn't they assume we're morons? They got elected, didn't they?
And that is what this is about: Our rulers think they rule over a country of despicable morons. They act accordingly.

Posted by: Brett Bellmore at September 06, 2014 06:45 AM (F15D0)

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