Who wants to make friends, or "win hearts and minds"? (see tagline).
Posted on 08/07/2006 5:33:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Do you marvel at the blind eye turned to evil by many “intellectuals” today? Does the creeping anti-Semitism that condemns Israel for defending itself against Hezbollah rocket attacks stun you? Are you baffled by the moral equivalency given to Israel and the blatant terrorist fanatics of Hezbollah?
Recently, I suggested in conversation that the world is recreating the precarious conditions of the 1930’s that led to the deaths of millions in the Second World War. Victor Davis Hanson, in National Review Online, has explored that very premise in a lengthy and illuminating article.
Some excerpts:
When I used to read about the 1930s — the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the Soviet Union, and the racist Japanese murdering in China — I never could quite figure out why, during those bleak years, Western Europeans and those in the United States did not speak out and condemn the growing madness, if only to defend the millennia-long promise of Western liberalism.
Our present generation too is on the brink of moral insanity. That has never been more evident than in the last three weeks, as the West has proven utterly unable to distinguish between an attacked democracy that seeks to strike back at terrorist combatants, and terrorist aggressors who seek to kill civilians.
These past few days the inability of millions of Westerners, both here and in Europe, to condemn fascist terrorists who start wars, spread racial hatred, and despise Western democracies is the real story, not the “quarter-ton” Israeli bombs that inadvertently hit civilians in Lebanon who live among rocket launchers that send missiles into Israeli cities and suburbs.
The growing turbulence of the 1930’s went largely unchallenged by those in power in Europe who instead sought to appease, smooth over, and get along with evil instead of condemning or combating it. As a result, roughly fifty million people died in the vast war that followed, and millions more would suffer for decades under the scourge of Communism that rose from the destruction.
The evil history of man is poised to repeat itself. Who will stand to prevent it?
Who wants to make friends, or "win hearts and minds"? (see tagline).
Sally Buzbee is AP's chief of Middle East news, based in Cairo.
She's not just A.P., she's the head idiot in the middle east.
If not hating them, we at least surely need to realize what the majority of Muslims have been taught: to hate and destroy the infedels. Watch Hannity & Colmes tonight and listen closely to their guest, a former Jihadist turned Christian, and what he has to tell us. I hope he'll repeat what he said on Sean's radio show today. It was downright chilling....
We already know.
The only one's it does impress is the left and it especially causes hand wringing among them to think Europeans and especially the French hate us.
It should go without saying that neither we nor any of our European "allies" will not have the courage to do what needs to be done.
You took the words right out of my mouth Coconutt!
LOL!
I guess flying 3 American planes loaded with innocent men, women, and children into buildings full of innocent men, women, and children was some sort of term of endearment! I am in a mood today so F them!
And I don't care more than ever.
Don't hate us because we're beautiful.
Let them envy that he has his 72 virgins while ululating they rush headlong from Syria into the Iraqi desert, hoping to be armed by their Slam-o-fast brothers, and only to find acute lead poisoning from fire directed by a specialist flying a drone from an air-conditioned equipment van 100 miles distant.
HF
Egypt = USA's number 1 aid recipient.
>>>Anger toward America is high<<<
Anger by patriotic Americans toward Liberals and Terrorists is very high.
I couldn't care less if they hate us or not. If our 'allies' take steps that hurt us, they hurt themselves also.
Well maybe if people like jimmy carter, bj clinton, and the ilk would shut their mouths, and let the people that KNOW what they are doing, do their jobs....just maybe we would be respected!!!!!!!!
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