IRAQ: APPEASERS KEEP PAYING RANSOM AND KEEP INCENTIVIZING KIDNAPPING

News of another kidnapping in Iraq - this time an American female journalist (name withheld).

Why are kidnappings so common in Iraq? Could it be that so many have paid the RANSOM which the kidnappers seek? Duh.

Here are a FEW stories on ransoms paid [PARTIAL LISTING!]: HERE (4 "peace activists"); HERE by Italy; by Egypt HERE; by France HERE; by Cyprus (home of Benon Sevan) HERE; by Sweden HERE - and in this last post, the blogger asks: "Can a day go by without some European country paying ransom so that terrorists in Iraq can buy more weapons to kill Americans?" I would only add that the jihadoterrorists also kill A LOT of Iraqis. The ransoms paid by these appeasers pays for the "insurgency." MAYBE THE COWARDLY, APPEASING RANSOM-PAYERS DON'T CARE?!

OR MAYBE THEY LIKE THE FACT THAT THEIR MONEY BUYS WEAPONS THAT KILL AMERICANS AND IRAQIS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM!? OR MAYBE THEY'D PREFER IT IF WE JUST WENT AWAY AND THEY COULD LIVE IN PEACEFUL DHIMMITUDE!?

We cannot depend on countries which pay ransom to the jihadoterrorists; they cannot make good allies.

Australia is a GREAT ally; they got it right:

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has reiterated Prime Minister John Howard's insistence that the Government will not pay a ransom. Mr Downer said paying to secure freedom for Mr Wood, who is being held by Islamic insurgents, would only encourage more kidnappings. "We'll be doing everything we can with two exceptions -- we won't be paying ransom and we won't be changing our policies," he told reporters. "We are not sub-contracting our foreign policy to terrorists. And we're certainly not going to have the money of Australian taxpayers expropriated by terrorists," Mr Downer said.

JOHN HOWARD:

... these people are opposed to what we believe in and what we stand for, far more than what we do. If you imagine that you can buy immunity from fanatics by curling yourself in a ball, apologising for the world - to the world - for who you are and what you stand for and what you believe in, not only is that morally bankrupt, but it's also ineffective. Because fanatics despise a lot of things and the things they despise most is weakness and timidity. There has been plenty of evidence through history that fanatics attack weakness and retreating people even more savagely than they do defiant people. ...

you cannot conduct the foreign policy of a country as if it were shadow-boxing with fanatics. You just can't do that. You have to take decisions that you believe are in your country's best interests, and I believe very strongly it's in this country's best interests in 2005 to do the things we are doing in cooperation with our allies and our friends.

I cannot look you in the face or the Australian public in the face and say, "This country is guaranteed immunity from a terrorist attack." I hope and pray it never happens, but it's a possibility. We have to understand that that is the world we're living in, and it's fair to say that the people who died on the London Underground, they were certainly not all white Anglo-Celtic Christians, they were a combination of people of different races and of different religions and it just undermines the fact that murderous fanatics are the enemies of us all, not just the enemies of a stereotypical idea of what a Westerner represents.

The Aussies are GREAT! In fact, most of the Aussies and the Brits just simply GET IT. Old Europe simply DOES NOT. Why?! Continental Western Europe is largely mired in the thrall of post modernism (and the false collectivism, the false pacifism, the false moral relativism and the false anti-colonialism which are concomittant with post modernism).

Brits and Aussies (and Americans) are largely inoculated against the inner rot of post modernism by the strong presence of Natural Law which is safely located DEEP within Anglo culture. The NEW democracies of Eastern Europe aren;t Anglo, but are better allies because they are still so close to the time of their own liberation, and so they still appreciate the importance of fighting for democracy and the pitfalls of socialism. That's why Poland and the Czech republic are better allies than France and Germany. And less likely to pay ransom.

HERE'S a link to an article about the proper way to deal with kidnappings for ransom.