Fort Hood: Wise Words From Michael Yon

Wise, wise words from Michael Yon: 

Now is not a time to psychoanalyze the attacker by using a media-supplied telescope that already said he was dead, and that there were multiple attackers.  Media: STOP, please.  There will be time to pursue answers and justice after Christmas.  We must remember that family members lost loved ones just before the holidays.  Justice and answers will come with time.

When stories of this kind break, the weatherman becomes the most accurate part of the newscast. We know nothing right now. We know less than nothing because too much of what we’re told is wrong.

All we know is that people are dead and wounded, and families and loved ones are suffering. That’s all that matters right now. The rest is noise.

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Tags: Fort Hood, media, Michael Yon, NRO, Tragedy
Posted Nov 5th 2009 at 9:38 pm in Featured Story, Military, News | 25905881 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/05/michael-yon-tragedy-at-fort-hood/Fort+Hood%3A+Wise+Words+From+Michael+Yon2009-11-06+05%3A38%3A23Big+Hollywood

Honoring September 11th: Not a Tragedy

Offspring#2 steps into our bedroom and says:

“Do you know what’s going on in New York?”

My wife Karen and I look at each other, baffled.

“Better turn on the TV,” says Offspring#2.

Black smoke is rising from one of the Twin Towers. A newscaster tells us that a passenger jet airliner has hit the World Trade Center.

Ariel, our son, senses that something is happening. He tears himself away from his Talmud study and steps into our bedroom, gazes at the TV screen.

“How many people work there?” Ariel asks.

“Thousands, tens of thousands, it’s an entire world.” (more…)

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Tags: 9-11, Atrocity, Evil, Islamist Jihad, Tragedy
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 8:25 am in Military, Politics | 21782665 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ravrech/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-not-a-tragedy/Honoring+September+11th%3A+Not+a+Tragedy2009-09-11+15%3A25%3A39Robert+J.+Avrech

Are We Witnessing a Greek Tragedy?

I was watching the President at Notre Dame a few weeks ago and hoping that one good Catholic student would rise in defense of the church and the unborn and do what the Jesuits teach best, question authority. I wanted just one strong Catholic woman to respectfully express her disappointment with the school’s decision to invite a man so at odds with many of the teachings of the church. It didn’t happen, or if it did I didn’t see it reported.

As I watched the address, and many of the events since, I realized that what we are all watching is the unfolding of a classical Greek drama. It is interesting to note that the early Greek tragedies started with a song of praise to the god Dionysus who was known to inspire ecstasy and madness. Perhaps our unfolding modern drama was begun by the mainstream media’s song of praise for Mr. Obama. Aristotle thought a good tragedy should arouse both fear and pity … anybody with me yet?

The first element in a classical tragedy is the noble hero or protagonist. The hero must appear at first to be perfect though he has a fatal flaw. The hero is driven to accomplish some great task but his flaw will make this go horribly awry. The protagonist in our tragedy is Mr. Obama. He is the modern Oedipus tortured by his abandonment as a child by his mother. He craves the love she showed for causes and others but not him. Rejection by his mother caused him to doubt his worthiness to be loved and develop low self esteem. I know that might sound a little nutty — how can someone who has risen so far have low self esteem? Many overachievers are driven by that same flaw. This character fault also may have led him to experiment with drugs and alcohol in his early years. (more…)

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Tags: Aristotle, Greek Drama, hubris, Jesuits, Notre Dame
Posted Jun 6th 2009 at 3:33 pm in Politics | 1515387 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/06/06/obama-at-colonus/Are+We+Witnessing+a+Greek+Tragedy%3F2009-06-06+22%3A33%3A12Jeffrey+Jena