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October 02, 2004
Reading for a Saturday morning
Southern Cal has been delightfully fall-like these past several days. With the cooler weather, I found I slept in this morning, so this post is a tad late (plus I was just too exhausted yesterday to really focus on writing). Amazing, isn't it, that I exhist in the real world and I'm not just electrons and pixels pretending to be human on the 'net?
I did wake up, too, with an essay I want to write and will post later. It will touch on the moral foolishness of John Kerry and the moral cowardice of the Left in general. That is an aspect of the debates that has grown in importance for me since Thursday.
For some, moral cowardice moves into moral depravitity. Take CBS's Mary Mapes, producer of the Killian Memo Affair and her attempts to "prove" the fraudulent memos "authentic" by using a fraudulent study. Amazing.
Don't miss Victor Davis Hanson's piece exploring the anatomy of Kerry's flip-flopping.
There is a logic to Senator Kerry's flip-flopping that transcends his political opportunism: He is simply a captive of the pulse of the battlefield, without any steady vision or historical sense that might put the carnage of the day into some larger tactical, strategic, or political framework.
This article in the NYPost explores the "why some choose terrorism" question plus offering some motivations behind the Kofi/MichaelMoore/French/et al attitude towards the US involvement in Iraq. Observe:
Add to this the recent bizarre phrase from French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. The head of the Figaro press group went to see him about the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq; Raffarin assured him they would soon be freed, reportedly saying, "The Iraqi insurgents are our best allies."
Life goes on while trials (especially those long drawn affairs in Federal Court) grind on. I'm not a lawyer, but I work with them (local District Attorney's office) and I hope I don't need to tell people how unlike "Law and Order" real jurisprudence is. Certainly, it does have its moments of drama or strangeness or even black humor (I'll have to tell you the story of the case from my office a few years back we came to refer to as "Bob in the box"). The NY Times is following the trial of attorney Lynn Stewart which includes her paralegal, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, as a co-defendant. Ms. Stewart was the lawyer for "The Blind Shiek" who is serving a life sentence for the 1993 WTC bombings and plotting of terrorist attacks in NY City. Here's an interesting tidbit from the wiretaps on the paralegal.
In a moment of rage over political clashes in Israel, Mr. Sattar helped an Islamic Group leader who was in Afghanistan compose a religious edict and release it under the sheik's name without asking the sheik. It summoned young Muslims to fight Jews "by all possible means of jihad, either by killing them as individuals or by targeting their interests and their advocates, as much as they can."
I've posted earlier on Democrats being investigated in several states over voter fraud, now there is this strange story
SEATTLE — Three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen overnight from the Bush-Cheney state headquarters office, Republican officials said Friday.
Coincidence?
Here's one of those things that makes you go "Whaaa..?"
Ok... I'm going to go work on my essay (and do chores, having parents over for dinner tonight). Happy weekend, one and all!
Posted by Darleen at October 2, 2004 08:27 AM
Comments
I'll add this to the charge of moral weakness, if not depravity. Kerry's insistence on the "global test" and consensus/approval of others before committing to an unpleasant, though necessary, action, is typical of the Left's reluctance to accept responsibility. If they can increase the amount of people to which any possible blame might accrue, they will.
Posted by: Sally at October 5, 2004 03:28 PM