Comments on: A WAR AGAINST MORAL EQUIVALENCY

By: Wallo World

Wallo World — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:26:32 +0000

Carnival of the Vanities #147

Welcome to the 147th Carnival of the Vanities. I’ll be your host. So as Betty Davis said in All About Eve, “Buckle your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
As many people may know, the host of the Carnival frequently…

By: Baron Bodissey

Baron Bodissey — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:55:37 +0000

One of the conundrums of our time is how the Left can be so self-loathing and self-righteous at the same time. I can’t figure it out.

By: Marv Looopstra

Marv Looopstra — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:55:40 +0000

It is exactly this cultural divide that our enemies expect to help them win this war. OBL himself has said as much. He has stated two things in his writings: The Mogadishu retreat convinced them that the west doesn’t have the heart for a long term war. Unfortunatly the left seems to be proving him right.
2) that they were very much surprised and caught off guard at the U.S. military response to 911. That indicates to me that the left hasn’t been doing their homework.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:22:42 +0000

James Wolbrunner… the “flap” you tried to point out does more to prove Rick’s point than anything else.

By: Bergbikr

Bergbikr — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:52:11 +0000

Some of these posts indicate a serious lack of reading comprehension by their authors. We’re dealing with two (or more) planes of thinking here, the caterwauling left-lib-lilliputian commentators and the eloquent, well reasoned exposition of the subject post’s author.

Nice job, Rick. Loved it!!

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:44:01 +0000

That was a great post! I remember it because I think I quoted from it and linked to it myself.

By: Baron Bodissey

Baron Bodissey — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:42:23 +0000

“I believe it to be a self-loathing so profound that it manifests itself as a pathological hatred for the very things that you and I love about America and admire in Western Civilization.”

I weighed in on this a while back in “The Enemy Within”.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/01/enemy-within-part-i.html

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:17:50 +0000

Larry,
The only problem I have about critcizing Bush is that those who do, never have an alternative solution to the war on terror. At least he is trying. What is yours? How would you make it effective?
In my view, the left will not wake up until some city in the US or Israel has either been vaporized or the Bill of Rights, out of respect for only Islam, ceases to exist. Their PC is blinding them to what is so obvious to the rational and even those on the fringe right. Imams and Mosques need to be under extreme scrutiny AND the borders must be CLOSED for starters.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:10:09 +0000

“What is driving this impulse to self destruction?”

This article is the best explaination I have found: http://www.policyreview.org/aug02/harris.html
“was not politics, but theater; and the significance of his role lay not in the political ends his actions might achieve, but rather in their symbolic value as ritual.”

The article simultaneously explains the behavior of protesting moonbats.

By: Larry Brown

Larry Brown — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:05:14 +0000

Mr. Bits would seem to have gone adrift in his ability to reason. He seems particularly confused by many of the complaints about the ineptitude of Bush’s so-called “War On Terrorism.”

Being critical of George W. Bush does not mean one is opposed to an effective fight against terrorism. If anything, being critical of Mr. Bush is a call for competence and vision in this important struggle, something this woebegone excuse for a president has been proven to lack time and again.

For many on the fringe right the concern appears to be more about the reputation of this ineffectual president than it does waging an effective and meaningful war on terrorism. Their odd devotion to this undeserving individual is almost cultish in its intensity.