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August 26, 2006

Saturday morning must reads

Cassandra chops, dices and purees yet another instance of BDS and how a well-known "journalist" just doesn't get it.

Fausta ruminates on "Why men's lives are more difficult nowadays". Agree or disagree with her, she offers some insightful observations on contemporary culture.

Confederate Yankee points out why a particular E&P Editor was so quick to defend the faked photos coming from Lebanon ... by golly, Greggy has faked it himself! (And Charles discovers that someone has accessed Greggy's 2003 article and edited recently in an attempt to soften his damning admission. Good times!)

And while factions of the American Left still blame America for Islamist terrorist attacks (and even hoping for another 9/11 on American soil so their guys can get elected ... niiiicce), NRO features an article demonstrating Soviet nurturing and fertilizing of Jew-hatred in dar ul Islam in the 1970's which has reaped bumper crops today (maybe a bit more then they wanted, considering the Beslan massacre). hattips to Kim at Wizbang and Smash.

Posted by Darleen at August 26, 2006 08:12 AM

Comments

Thank you Darleen!

Posted by: Fausta at August 27, 2006 07:08 AM

"(and even hoping for another 9/11 on American soil so their guys can get elected ... niiiicce)"
As he makes clear throughout the piece, he's certainly not hoping for anything of the sort. The very title is "I Hope And Pray We Don't Get Hit Again-BUT....." and he explains the possible political fallout. Any idiot who actually reads it can tell that. Excerpts below for those too lazy to follow your link.

"I hope and pray we don't get hit again, like we did on September 11. Even one life lost to the violence of terrorism is too much.

If I somehow knew an attack was coming, I wouldn't pause for a second to report it in order to prevent it from occuring."

"That realization has led my brain to launch a political calculus 180 degrees removed from my pacifist-inclined leanings. An entirely hypothetical yet realpolitik calculus that is ugly, and cold-hearted but must be posited:

This is a type of calculus that Pentagon war games planners and political consultants do all the time- a combination of what-if actions and consequences that are unpleasant to consider but are in the realm of plausibility."

"I am not proud of myself for even considering the notion that another terror attack that costs even one American life could ever be considered anything else but evil and hurtful. And I know that when I weigh the possibility that such an attack- that might, say, kill 100- would prevent hundreds of thousands of Americans from dying who otherwise would- I am exhibiting a calculating cold heart diametrically opposed to everything I stand for as a human being. A human being, who, just so you know, is opposed to most wars and to capital punishment."

"Even if only from the standpoint of a purely intellectual exercise in alternative future history:

If you knew us getting hit again would launch a chain of transformative, cascading events that would enable a better nation where millions who would have died will live longer, would such a calculus have any moral validity?

Any at all?"

Posted by: zippy at September 2, 2006 09:17 AM