#Brussels

Of course there's been much written about the "events" in Brussels today. Here are three viewpoints that stand out.

First - A sampling of tweets from David Burge, aka Iowahawk.

much poignant

so think-making

Taste our hot tears of abstract cartoon sadness, genocidal lunatics

Let's not forget the real victim in all of this.

(Re - Obama just can’t move his focus away from the Middle East/terrorism. His Cuba trip now overshadowed by today’s events.)

How many calendar dates are we now supposed to Never Forget? I'm losing track.

Good To Know.

(Re - Celebrities react with sadness and outrage to the #Brussels attacks.)

#IStandInSolidarityWithTheVictimsOfTheLatestTragicEvents  

If you had International Business Times in the post-massacre backlash story pool, come forward and claim your prize

(Re - Headline in IBT : Muslims Fear Backlash After Brussels Attack: Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Often Follows Violence)

The Department of Futile Gestures springs to action

(Re - Obama administration to announce new security measures at U.S. airports following Brussels attacks)

#IStandWithWhateverCityGetsBlownUpNext

Cinderella JV team making deep tournament run during March Madness
(Re - #ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks in #Brussels)

Let's face it, every jihad mass murder now prompts an open audition for a job at Hallmark greeting cards.

It's time for the Symbolic Illumination phase of the Useless Gesture Pageant
(Re - Eiffel Tower lights up in solidarity with Belgium after Brussels attacks)

The price of liberty is eternal vigils

Twibbons and hashtags and memes, oh my


Next -- Mark Steyn, he of partial Belgian heritage, who has been writing repeatedly (and to no avail) throughout this century about the surrender of our civilization to Islamism.

As M Jambon, the Belgian Interior Minister, told CNN on Monday:

Jambon says the majority of young Muslims are well integrated into Belgian society, but admits his government has more to do to make some feel "at home" in their own country, given that a sense of alienation can leave them open to the threat of radicalization.

"We're talking about third- and fourth-generation [immigrants]; these youngsters are born in Belgium, even their fathers and mothers are born in Belgium, and still they are open for these kind of messages. This is not normal -- in the U.S., the second generation was the President; here, the fourth generation is an IS fighter -- so that is really something we have to work on."

So "British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow's Train Bombing" is now joined by "Belgian Cabinet Minister Says Tomorrow's Train Bombing Is All Our Fault".

So "we" have to work on it. That means you, the Flemish frequent flyer, poking your head up from the rubble at the airport concourse. And you, the Walloon strap-hanger blinking into the dust and chaos and wondering where the lower part of your left leg went. You are going to "have to work on" it, harder and harder and harder.

http://www.steynonline.com/7493/tomorrow-civilizational-cringe-today


And finally, A proposed solution to the problem of ISIS from former Army Col. Kurt Schlister. A course of action decidedly different from one the current president would ever follow. How to WIN a war.

http://opinion.injo.com/2015/11/250238-what-defeating-isis-would-look-like/