Kind of like those pictures that are a vase one minute, and two faces the next, reading it as the archaic form of "marches" made perfect sense. I never would have seen it like that if you hadn't gone that direction.
Everybody's got the right to be "mightily pissed." But after years of watching the reaction of the big-time peaceniks (around the world, not just in America) to conflicts around the world, with their anger exclusively directed at the West, just once in my life I'd like to see them get mightily pissed at one or two of the actual bastards of the world. Have you EVER seen an effigy or angry sign about bin Laden in any protest photo?
Before the war in Iraq, not one of the protesters held a sign calling for Saddam to capitulate, or step down. Seen any of the anti-nuke crowd picketing Iran lately?
Their demonstrations aren't about peace and freedom, they're about anti-Americanism or anti-Westernism. Constantly crapping on the one nation on this planet most responsible for keeping it from becoming a world of slave states.
It isn't about Republicans. Believe me, this phenomenon goes back a hell of a lot further than 2000, or even 1994.
Yeah, I noticed that after I read your response.
The whole thread (78 posts)
- Reactions
- Moral equivalency
- "Civilization won't stand long when when the self-proclaimed good guys use war as an excuse to take a holiday from civilization"
- And our side won't last long when we're the only ones using a rule book.
- "The soft nihilism of low expectations"
- Smoothly done, Robert...
- One for the road...
- We *should* know better.
- "the people in the marches have a deep and abiding hostility to the West and its values."
- The right-wing reaction to the story was faster.
- re: Nations
- Revisionist history of the highest order.
- Heh, heh. Phony point.
- Moral equivalency