Terrorists as Matadors

[Thurston Howell IV]

This was sent to me by a friend -- I believe it captures something essential about our failure to understand terrorist provocations. To appreciate it might require intelligence and "sensitivity." How unmanly it is to use one's brain!

"Terrorists are picadores and matadores. They prick the bull until it bleeds and is blinded by rage, then they snap the red cape of bloody terror in its face. The bull charges again and again until, exhausted, it can charge no more. Then the matador, though smaller and weaker, drives the sword into the soft spot between the shoulder blades of the bull. For the bull has failed to understand that the snapping cape was but a provocation to goad it into attacking and exhausting itself for the kill."

[theKnave]

1. that's why...

you have to gore (no pun intended) the b*stard waving the cape. ;-)

[Thurston Howell IV]

2. Funny tagline!

[theKnave]

3. Thanks. n/t

[dolo amber]

4. That, is perfectly brilliant.

And 100% right. :hi:

[htuttle]

5. Good analogy -- here's another. Osama bin Laden as Brer Rabbit

"Oh, please don't attack Iraq. Whatever you do, don't attack Iraq!"

Actually, I think he had the same plan in mind for our attack on Afghanistan (as it could hardly have been a surprise to him if he actually pulled off 9/11), but it didn't work out as well. So the neocons went and gave him another chance by attacking Iraq...