"Roaming freely once again in the wild"

"The first phase of a major plan to release the Arabian Oryx back into the wild began here on Monday with the release of a herd of 29 antelopes" attended by General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, according to a March 3 news item at Abu Dhabi's Environment Agency Website. "The project, dubbed as the largest release programme in the region, will see 100 herd of the Arabian Oryx roaming freely once again in the wild." Classified as endangered by the USDI, a number of the dwindling herd had been taken from the wild and brought to the US in 1962, where they "served as the foundation of an international breeding effort and for reintroductions into the wild." (Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi photo)

"Iraq's challenge is to get the liberals to see you like an endangered species," writes blogger Peter Kay in the comments of Iraq the Model's Omar Faydil's latest, urgent, commonsensical PJM post lamenting the Democrats' defeatism on all things Iraq. "I don't pretend to hold 'The Solution' to the dilemma faced by the Iraqis as our Democratic leadership waves the white flag," writes Kay, but:

I will ask, however, that perhaps if the Iraqi people themselves wrote letters to our US congressmen and demonstrated in the streets of Iraq to have the Americans STAY AND HELP, there MAY be a chance that the American public would get a sense that we are wanted in Iraq.

Right now the liberal media has trumpeted the case that no one wants us in Iraq, including the Iraqis.

Liberals, as short-sighted as they are, will fight like crazy for any animal on the endangered species list out of their "compassion."

Iraq's challenge is to get the liberals to see you like an endangered species. You need to appeal to their liberal side. Show them how women's rights are so incredibly abused under Islamic extremism. Give them a cause to rally around. Show them how Iraq will be like Darfur and soon you'll see George Clooney appealing to the President to "stop the slaughter" in Iraq.

As of March 2007, "the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi’s (EAD) plan to reintroduce the graceful Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) back into its natural habitats, after 40 years of extinction, is now well underway." (Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi photo)

We love the way Peter Kay's mind works. But let's say Harry and Nancy & Company were to receive a flood of emails and letters from all the Omars in Iraq declaring their support for an allied victory in Iraq. Would it make any difference? Probably not, since liberal "compassion" seems to have a blind spot when it comes to anything that might make George Bush or the United States look good.

Arabian Oryxes grow up. Too bad the Democratic leadership doesn't. (Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi photo)

Comments

[goomp]

Liberals: Ignorant of human nature including their own and ignorant of the lessons of history. While I find the re-establishing of the Arabian Onyx interesting and possibly desirable one must understand the history of the world is accompanied by the history of evolution with the continual extinction of some species and the development of others.If liberals have thier way modern civilization may revert to tribal tyranny.

[Full Power To The Shields]

I wrote an article on my blog regarding those concrete walls and how they can stop the more than 1,000 years of violence.

The blog article is entitled:

“10 years of inconvenient walls VERSUS another 1,000 years of violence”

http://fullpowertotheshields.blogspot.com/

Thanks.

[jameshigham]

My views on liberals are unprintable so best I don't comment. Down, blood pressure, down!

[hnav]

such a fine post.

it is so true, to see a liberal democrat partisan in NYC, pause in some questioning, when i remind them that Iraq is a mission of Liberation.

but if Iraqis demonstrated a great deal, for the USA to stay, as they have expressed (in smaller ways), the MSM would hide it, and liberal democrat partisans would say the Bush Administration paid Agents to fake the scene.

the democrat partisan has become this unglued.

no reason whatsoever in my arena...

of course, this is a State, which returned Hillary Clinton to the Senate.

but i feel the dementia of the modern liberal democrat stems from the failures of Carter, and the gross negligence of the Clinton Experience.

they simply cannot have GW, another Republican like Reagan, succeed.

they can't handle it...

it blows their entire conception of the world, and they begin to fabricate the very worst.

at least it is a theory...

[Peter Kay]

Thanks for the return link!

Alas, what really complicates this matter is that the Dems are so invested in losing Iraq that the endangered Arabian Onyx may not bring liberals to Iraq's cause.

But I think the overall idea of appealing to the liberal value of emotions and feelings over facts and reality still holds water.

Show them crying babies, endangered insects, and oppressed women.

Get Madonna to adopt an Iraqi child.

Let Rosie save an Iraqi lesbian from being stoned to death.

Send Sean Penn on a mission to free imprisoned filmmakers in Iran.

Ask Oprah to sponsor a new school in Anbar.

[Sissy Willis]

I love the comments to this post. Thank you all. :-)

[Gayle Miller]

They aren't so adorable when they're young - but WOW when they're grown, they are spectacular!

Thanks, Sissy!

[GreenmanTim]

If they are like their southern African cousins -Gemsbok, so called because of their "diamond" facial markings - Arabian Oryx can let its body temperature rise from 99.5 to 113 F to endure extreme heat and the young are dun colored to elude predators. As for the rapier-like horns, imagine you were a lion and your preferred mode of attach was to leap on the back and go for the neck. All you'd get from an Oryx was impaled.

[Elisson]

That oryx looks like it might be tasty, braised in a red wine sauce. Of course, that would be forbidden to devout Muslims...

...which means "more for me."

[Teresa]

Having partaken of food prepared by Elisson... I can say I think it would be delicious. *grin* When's dinner?

[GreenmanTim]

Oryx is good, especially rolled in coriander seeds and dried - biltong at its best.

As for eating one's way through African fauna, I can recommend Springbok poached in wine and Ostrich with mushroom sauce. Warthog is fine, too. I'm less sure I'd suggest crocodile tail to someone I liked, and giant frog was something I just couldn't face, for all that it was staring up at me in all its eviscerated glory and lovingly prepared by Owambo nuns. And then there are the mopani worms...