Moral Equivalency
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In all the caterwauling about the “torture” memos, the most unsophisticated, painfully naive argument is “if we don’t be mean to their guys, then they can’t/won’t be mean to our guys.” It not only indicates that they’ve never even met a JihadJohnny but that they are completely incapable of extrapolating to what lengths a human will go motivated by a religious belief. Childlike, they are stuck in a world where the Marquess of Queensberry rules always apply as they ignore the clear evidence that JihadJohnny has never heard of the Geneva Conventions, nor would he ever have any interest see any point in abiding by them. [No, the reason they don’t wear uniforms is not “they’re too poor."]
Given that we face an enemy who is as implacably inconvincible as any run- of- the- mill “Progressive” [iron, there] they blindly persist in claiming that their own discooomfort at any particular technique trumps the safety of us all. [Hell, yeah—it’s disagreeable, even distressing; ask any battle-hardened Marine. Yet there are those who know there are things beyond their own cooomfort level and who cowboy up and take care of business. To them I am grateful. And supportive.]
Ace brings teh question:
A point that never gets mentioned: Liberals try to reassure Americans that in a ticking-time-bomb scenario, of course they’d do the rough stuff required.
Um, how? Given that liberals are branding all of this unconstitutional, unamerican, and wholly illegal, how do they carve a special ticking-time-bomb exception?
How can they be so sanguine in the face of clear evidence that the ticking-time-bomb scenario is in our future? Because they are convinced that some of those nasty, limbic-impaired rednecks will be around to do the heavy lifting for ‘em. All high-fallutin’ lawfare aside. [You’d never expect dem dumb rednecks to understand all that intricate, wordy nuance, now, wouldja?]
Yanno what I think? I think we left them [the Democrats] out of power too long—they’re not accustomed to making the difficult decisions or doing the nasty jobs. They’ve been sniping from the safety of the side-lines too long. A turn at the helm is grounding and keeps one’s head out of one’s ass the clouds. Same thing as the know- it- all teens who are “smarter” than their parents or grands; they simply have no practical experience against which to measure their grandiose theories.
Now they’ve morphed into “Progressives” and they’re gleefully stuffing their grandiosity down everyone’s throats like teens given a parent-free weekend. And it’s turning out as just well as a weekend at Bernie’s…
The press last evening had a great chance to ask Obama about this very topic. But they failed miserably (as usual) to follow up to get something besides a platitude.
Obama said that even though the ‘enhanced’ interrogation worked, that there were other ways to get the information about an Al Qaeda attack on LA. The lap dogs in the press corps just nodded adoringly and failed to ask what those methods were and would they have gotten the information in time.
Obama is going to bet this country in a huge amount of trouble owing to his naive world view. And the press will give him a pass by not asking important questions.
For more on some of the questions the press corp missed, hit:
http://firstconservative.com/blog/conservative-blogs/obama-press-conference-unasked-questionsPosted by MAS1916 on 04/30/09 at 09:22 AM
