Comments on: The enemy within https://didacticmind.com/2016/09/the-enemy-within.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2016/09/the-enemy-within.html#comment-3144 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:14:10 +0000 #comment-3144 Actually the SABATON song was kind of the reason why I wrote the post =).

I was listening to it in the gym and I figured that, with the 15-year anniversary of 9/11 and the fact that Osama bin Laden himself stated that the Islamic defeat at Vienna was a major motivation for choosing that specific date for the attacks, it might be worth stringing the two together.

]]> By: LastRedoubt https://didacticmind.com/2016/09/the-enemy-within.html#comment-3143 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:00:28 +0000 #comment-3143 Beautifully said. I hadn't realized 9/11 was also the Vienna anniversary – though I had known of it, its significance, and of course the hussars. (There wasn't a YouTube video of the Sabaton song?)

Fwiw coming up soon on my dead tree list is The Drawing of the Dark. If I recall from my middle school days some 30-odd years ago it was set in Vienna during said siege. Don't trust me on that one

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