From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 12:15:42 MST
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey forgot, at the end of his great list, to
> add that the peace movement defends the continued
> world acceptance of such brutal dictators as
> Hussein and Castro.
Thanks, Lee. You are correct. It was the wishy-washy concern in the
first Bush administration that the awesome 'hail mary' defeat of
Saddam's army, in "The Mother of All Battles" (he was right on that,
wasn't he, just not in the way he expected), especially the scenes from
the "Road of Death", would ignite massive negative reactions from the
milquetoast left which can't seem to stand the sight of blood.
I should also note that the primary proponent of this concern in the
first Bush administration has done the most to interfere with the US's
just right (under the UN Charter) to deal with Saddam ourselves, and
his agency, the State Department, is the same agency which actively
worked to keep so many Jews in the hands of the Nazi regime, to the
point of even refusing entry to refugee ships full of Jews.
I'll also note who was on which side during the Elian Betrayal. A
perfect opportunity to stand up to Castro, down the tubes. You'll
notice that another similar case came up in the last few weeks, yet no
news organizations outside of Fox News have reported anything on it,
specifically because the boy is far more likely to attain US asylum.
In europe, and around the world, it is those with the worst histories
which are expressing the most opposition to us, and the most support
for groups and individuals who have done the most to foster the
terrorist scourge. Whether it is Germany, from whence the 9/11 killers
launched their attack and where they found refuge for years, to Egypt
and Saudi Arabia, from whence most all of the 9/11 killers came from
and where they were taught to hate the US, to any other tin pot
dictator or socialist regime that fears that it is next on our list.
Only the guilty and the complicit resist.
I am currently reading L Neil Smith's novel "The American Zone", the
plot of which eirily reflects the events of the last few years. Smith's
characters, and the North American Confederacy they live in, resist
terrorist insurgencies far better than I fear our world will.
It wasn't violence that was the scourge of the 20th century, pacifism
was the scourge of the 20th century. The people of the West, inheritors
of the Enlightenment, lost the courage of their convictions, the
scrotal fortitude to do what was necessary to make the world right.
It looks like it may continue to be a scourge in this century.
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