If you have not yet done so, read Jonathan Gurwitz' excellent article on the opinion page in today's N&R, or follow this link.
Noteworthy:
" Worse than those who suffer from failures of imagination and recognition are the cynics who reject the threat of terrorism as a mere tool to manipulate the masses. John Edwards summed it up nicely in a Time magazine interview in which he rejected the war on terror as political language 'used to justify a whole series of things that are not justifiable, ranging from the war in Iraq, to torture, to violation of the civil liberties of Americans, to illegal spying.'"
Some of those cynics can be found right here in our local blogosphere, making those same lame accusations whenever they get the chance.
Acknowledging the reality of the threats we face is something they will not do.
Indeed, some will go to great lengths to distort the realities of the issue, such as what we see in this typical example of the type of thing we're discussing here.
One can try to pin the lable of cynic on those who treasure our liberties and value our stature in the world. Go for it. Draw a distinction between those who justify an unjustifiable war, torture and violations of civil liberties for the sake of political allegiances and those who think American values as the land of the free and the home of the brave must be restored and let's see which position the American people decide is cynical.
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ReplyDeleteWe've heard it all before.
It wasn't convincing then.....it's not convincing now.
The last paragraph of the Gurwitz article certainly applies to you, Roch:
"The imaginatively challenged live in a Sept. 10 world of bliss. The cynics live in a Sept. 12 world of conspiracies. The plotters and victims of Sept. 11 are facts of history. And history has an uncanny way of repeating."
You qualify in both categories.
And then there's this from you:
"...let's see which position the American people decide is cynical."
The American people are smart enough to see right through your"unjustifiable war, torture and violations of civil liberties for the sake of political allegiances..." babble.
That fact will not change, regardless of how many times and how loudly you repeat your unfounded slander.
Roch, please show evidence for your claims:
ReplyDelete1) "unjustifiable" war. Just because you hate Bush doesn't mean it was not justified. That's your opinion, not a fact.
2) Torture. And I don't mean the illegal acts of 10 soldiers out of over a million that have served in Iraq (Abu Ghraib) I mean torture as defined by statute or international law and practiced as a US policy. It doesn't exist.
3) Violation of civil liberties. Please cite court decision to back up your opinion.
You and Lex have the same problem, you mistake your opinion for fact.
I call "bullshit."