Comments on: Chaos and bloodshed in Kenya, Sudan

By: Straight_Talk_Luigi

Straight_Talk_Luigi — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:07:53 +0000

Al quedia strategy: Never attack what your enemy defends. That includes USAID.

By: baldilocks

baldilocks — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:53:26 +0000

Thanks, Michelle, for posting about Kenya. If you recall, my biological father is Kenyan and lives in the countryside. As of last night, he was ok.

By: coldfront

coldfront — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:08:43 +0000

Pray for Kenya, & all Christians everywhere. Check out the threads on some of the ‘local’ blogs!….always open season on Christians….
esp.Catholics….never a shortage of bashing….so long as it doesn’t leave visible marks & drive away traffic!!!…jus’say yer an atheist!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gwCkMrVEYGg

By: Watcherdownsouth

Watcherdownsouth — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:52:24 +0000

i say let them fight it out, and whoever wins is who we deal with.

ship them some small arms ammunition and hand held video cameras; i’ll build the youtube page and microwave the popcorn.

Bironnetwork #15, will you run for Pres?

Tell ya what…I will set up the office pool on this. Whaddya think the over/under on dead Kenyan christians in the next six months will be?

Arm the christians and let them fight.

While we are on the subject, this insistance that the radical islamists have on trying to start a holy war seems sorta stupid to me…do they REALLY want a holy war, or just an excuse to kill as many christians as possible without TRULY pissing us off? I mean, if it came to “no holds barred” War (that is war with a capital W, like we fought WWII once we got our manufacturing power up to speed), we would hand them their ass on a plate in about a week.

Heck, give them a hand with some aerial refueling and stay out of the way, and the Israelis could take care of our light work for us.

Another analogy? This is like Univ. of Hawaii wanting to play the “big boys” to prove how good they are, so they beat up on inferior competition for a while and convince themselves (and a decent portion of the populace) that they have a chance. Then they enter the playing field, and the Univ. of Georgia absolutely pounds on them, dang near killing their quarterback in the process — it was actually painful to watch.

This is what would happen to the islamists if we let them have their little war. Yes, some innocents would die in the process, and we as a country do not have much stomach for innocents dying. But it is what would happen…

By: J S Ragman

J S Ragman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:36:18 +0000

raising fears of further unrest in what has been one of Africa’s most stable democracies.

Well, let’s see here. Jomo Kenyatta was Kenya’s first president, elected in 1964. He served until his death in 1978, when Daniel arap Moi, the vice-president, took over. He served from 1978 until 2002, when he was constitutionally barred from seeking a second term. His vice-president, Mwai Kibata, was elected president in 2002, and supposedly re-elected last month.

I guess you could call that stable, but a democracy? Hardly. Three presidents in 43 years?

When my ship made a port visit to Mombasa in 1988, it was illegal to photograph either the president, or the presidential residence. About the only good thing there was the Tusker Premium beer.

By: Leatherneck

Leatherneck — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:11:53 +0000

As long as Christians, and Jews are being murdered there will be no outrage. It is just like during the Roman times.

Those nasty Christians, and Jews will not worship a false god like allah, buddha, mother earth, etc…

Plus, the world hates to hear about morality, and sin.

By: josetheguerilla

josetheguerilla — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:35:21 +0000

Can’t you imagine, if they had burned down a mosque. The MSM would be livid. They should be livid about a church, where’s the outrage?

Que pasa, MSM?

By: TXRose

TXRose — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:36:53 +0000

Why aren’t the reverends over there trying to mediate? I remember, some
years ago, a man who appeared on Johnny Carson, just before he retired,
talking about famine in Africa. He declared this was nature weeding out the
weaker members of society. Survival of the Fittest. He espoused our keeping
our hands off and waiting to see what would happen. Well, you can imagine
the outrage this caused. I’ve never seen or heard of this man again. However, this mess in Kenya could be looked at in the same way. We cannot
send troops to every uprising on this earth. If the left wants to go over there
and try to fix things…more power to them, I can’t see that George Clooney
has made any real difference in the Sudan.
I am not hardhearted. When I was younger, I would be yelling at everyone
that we had to help these people. Now, I realize that you have to pick your battles carefully and that not everyone can be helped. It’s a shame,
but it’s true.

By: greenfairie

greenfairie — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:17:15 +0000

Dysfunctional culture = dysfunctional people. This is how they’ve always settled things in Africa. Kinda blows that whole multiculti Western civ sucks meme out of the water, doesn’t it?

By: Boomer

Boomer — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:03:52 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if Africa is capable of maintaining any type of stability. All the news I ever see that comes out of the continent deals with oppression, murder, genocide, disease, and generally anything bad happening to innocent and not so innocent people. From my own personal experience traveling through Central and the sub-Saharan area of Africa back in my active duty days I sure didn’t leave anything I will ever need to go back to retrieve.

By: cpodug

cpodug — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:44:07 +0000

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. The natives are a little restless, that’s all.

/sarc off

By: Christian Soldier

Christian Soldier — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:15:23 +0000

When I read about John Granville last night-My immediate thoughts were “ISLAM” and “Who’s funding this?”

Alms for Jihad

Funding Evil

America Alone

Are the books that came to my mind.

By: mattymatt10

mattymatt10 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:13:04 +0000

saw some footage of this on the news the last few days…

it’s difficult to distinguish the parts of the country that have been torn apart by mobs, and the filthy country itself.

it’s 2008. if you’re living in thatched huts, wearing cardboard sandals, and setting churches on fire, it’s not your election process that’s failed you, it’s YOU that’s failed you.

i say let them fight it out, and whoever wins is who we deal with.

Totally agree. I’m really getting tired of being told to pray for every person on the planet. You know what? Not every person on the planet is my responsibility. Let them fix their own problems.

It reminds me of one of those “heroes” segments on the Glenn Beck show which showed a teen who had helped some village install a well or something similar. Why did it take a teen on the other side of the world to furnish the people with water?

The colonists left decades ago. That’s more than enough time for these people to figure out how to act civilly to each other and fix their problems.

By: bironetworks

bironetworks — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:01:13 +0000

saw some footage of this on the news the last few days…

it’s difficult to distinguish the parts of the country that have been torn apart by mobs, and the filthy country itself.

it’s 2008. if you’re living in thatched huts, wearing cardboard sandals, and setting churches on fire, it’s not your election process that’s failed you, it’s YOU that’s failed you.

i say let them fight it out, and whoever wins is who we deal with.

ship them some small arms ammunition and hand held video cameras; i’ll build the youtube page and microwave the popcorn.

By: Marshall Russ

Marshall Russ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:50:14 +0000

10% of the populace are followers of the “religion of peace”. It couldn’t be that their neighbors are helping stoke the fires of unrest? OBL’s followers bombed our embassy in Kenya. Where ever you look in the world if, there is violence and unrest you will probably find radical Islam in the midst.