Where’s the moral outrage?
The below quotes are by some of the bloggers outraged by Kos’ comments. Funny how they have so many problems with his relatively mild remarks, seeing what they get up to themselves. Why not give these a taste of their own medicine?
Providing financial aid to terrorists who target European civilians would be uncivilized — but, then, the Europeans are supposed to be the civilized ones, no?
FACTOID OF THE DAY: Bill Quick looks at the death toll from the Paris heat wave and remarks: “Why, that’s almost twice as many as the number of US troops killed in Iraq. Send in the UN!”
It’s the “brutal Parisian summer.” Did Robert Fisk warn us about that?
Civilized societies have found it harder, though, to beat the barbarians without killing all, or nearly all, of them. Were it really to become all-out war of the sort that Osama and his ilk want, the likely result would be genocide — unavoidable, and provoked, perhaps, but genocide nonetheless, akin to what Rome did to Carthage, or to what Americans did to American Indians. That’s what happens when two societies can’t live together, and the weaker one won’t stop fighting — especially when the weaker one targets the civilians and children of the stronger. This is why I think it’s important to pursue a vigorous military strategy now. Because if we don’t, the military strategy we’ll have to follow in five or ten years will be light-years beyond “vigorous.”
Every country must fight and sacrifice for its sovereignty. That is inescapable. But the Iraqis must do more to condemn these terrorist acts. They must do more to show the world that they deserve the freedom that we are helping them to achieve. For too many of them, though, the scars that Saddam and the Ba’athists left on them are too numerous and debilitating. The only thing that can be done for them is to put them down like the sick animals they are.
More, much more to come.