Posted on 07/24/2003 11:10:24 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
A helluva lot has changed since then ... you might even say this is stale; how many of their positions have changed now?
A nice bash for a Bush, with a thinly veiled desire for his loss to a Democrat. Really, I don't see any daylight between that position and Howard Dean's. That's the part I find unacceptable.
“Mr. Frum,
“I have on my desk at work a copy of the very first issue of The National Review. The National Review that you write for today has as much in common with that original edition as a horse has with a horsefly.
“You are not a ‘conservative’ nor are you an ‘American’ as you describe yourself.
“You are a jew. First, last always.
“You have been identified and people are no longer afraid to name the jew and to point out the irrefutable pattern of obfuscation, denial, silence and attacks used in the past to keep Americans from identifying jews as the problem with America. The ability to contain that absolute truth of nature- not rhetoric- has slipped past you while you pontificated about what America is. You wouldn't know, because it was a creation of White men, not jews. A stranger can tell me nothing about my own child and so the jew has nothing to offer me in describing my own nation.
“Jew.
“Enemy of the White Western Man that created our culture and our civilization. The polio vaccine is not enough to undo the damage caused by the Jew and as a far brighter man than you once observed about you and yours-‘Quickly he turns the attacker's charges back on him, and the attacker becomes the liar, the troublemaker, the terrorist. Same exact enemy. How to respond? Nothing could be more mistaken than to defend oneself. That is just what the Jew wants. He can invent a new lie every day for the enemy to respond to, and the result is that the enemy spends so much time defending himself that he has no time to do what the Jew really fears: to attack.’
“It is time to step up to the plate and men, good men, intelligent and deeply patriotic men are doing just that.
“I served my country in combat and so did my father and his father before him, for our people, not for yours- I don't fear conflict like the Fleishers, Perles, Wolfowitzes, Kissingers, Feiths, Abrams and Frums- I relish it.What unit did you serve in, chickenhawk?
“No one cares about the labels anymore, no one cares about the smears.We want our nation back, and we will have it.It doesn't belong to you and it never has. So call me what you like, for I know what you are- Jew.”
And if you wonder where that kind of miindset comes from as well as the kind of people who harbor it, review the Buchanan quotes on my profile.
I hear the decision regarding the University of Michigan affirmative action case is coming down soon too!
I also heard Mel Gibson is making a movie about Jesus! Anybody heard anything about it?
Phi Beta WHAT?
Hoo boy. That's a deadly attitude.
Without the hard-won wisdoms and guidance of prior generations we'd be pulling slugs out of rotting tree bark for our daily bread.
It would be easy to label these "paleoconservative" lunatics. Some of them are. But their motives and opinions are more complex than that. All I can say is that many of these "paleos" tend to oppose Israel, favor the Arabs, think the Confederacy was a pretty good idea, correspondingly think Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant, and generally oppose a strong US because a strong military requires a strong central government.
I have little sympathy for any of their positions. When someone like Lew Rockwell calls Clarence Thomas a "liberal" in his views regarding segregation in the South, I think Rockwell discredits himself and has confined himself to a lunatic fringe. Unfortunately, we on FR have to contend with such knuckleheads every day.
Rationality, logic and practicaility would say that actively sporting an antiwar position after the event is ... only for the myopic idealist.
It's one thing to assume a stance *prior* to an event, during it's debate, unless, of course, you're a strict policy wonk/practicing egghead and don't deal with the real world on any scale -
- WHICH a lot of these people simply don't ...
It's sad to see people we know are smarter than that, digging themselves into that hole.
A mild, festering cesspool where right and wrong take on equal status; a site where the avowed Marxist can berate his consevative or liberal opponent as if the communist system had validity and could actully carry it's weight in the real world ...
It has been my observation that desiring a neutral stance towards Israel has been purposely misconstrued by neocons as being anti-Israel.
Of course this leads to the inevitible charge of antisemitism (racism). This isn't a new tactic at all. The Rats have used it for years with affirmative action: If you're against it, surely you must be a racist. Thus the focus is changed from debating the legitimate points of the matter to namecalling and maligning one's opponent.
To quote the Thomas More character in MAN FOR ALL SEASONS:
You would see it. God would see it. Not a bad audience, that.
In that way, it is often a response of the oppressed, of the "untouchable", outcast or despised class.
Hey, how ya been? I've been absent from the trenches of late (my District party Chairman is a real Adam Clymer).
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