Hate-mongers in the United States discuss issues surrounding the 9-11 attacks
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of
yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
- Herman Hesse
Read the soothing words of columnist Lance Morrow in the September 12, 2001 issue of TIME magazine - a peach of a man!
- Ed.
"A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage ...- a ruthless indignation that doesn’t leak away in a week or two...
"Let America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of ... focused brutality...
"America needs to relearn a lost discipline ... called hatred.
"Healing is inappropriate now, and dangerous." (This remarkable sentence was conveeeeeniently removed from Morrow's original article as presented in the current online version. - Ed.)
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/morrow/article/0,9565,175435,00.html
James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal says that anyone who would consider alternatives other than warfare is a "useless idiot".
- Ed.
"It takes an exceptional degree of stupidity, not to mention
animus toward America, to call for "peace" at a time like this. Unlike
Vietnam or the Gulf War, this is not a case of America choosing to intervene
overseas; America was at war the moment our enemies struck us on our own soil.
"We're a bit surprised to find that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is
a hotbed of stupid anti-Americanism. And yet the Boston Herald reports that
scores of students and faculty members gathered around a "Nerds Against
War" banner. Hugh Gusterson, a professor of anthropology at MIT, expressed
his sympathy for America's enemies: "Desperate, impoverished people will
take a lot of suffering before they give in. And they will repay it in
spades."
"It's not just MIT, though; an online flier on the institute's Web site invited
students to 'rally for peace simultaneously with students at Caltech,
Cornell, Colombia (NY), Wesleyan (CT), Harvard University, and 140 colleges and
universities around the country.'"
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=95001192
Here we have the brilliant Michael Kelly of The Washington Post informing us that all pacifists have the same exact position, and he tells us what that position is (even though I've never heard anything remotely similar to it from anyone but Mr. Kelly and his right-wing kindred). Mr. Kelly is also kind enough to inform us that the position of all pacifists is "evil".
- Ed.
"Organized terrorist groups have attacked America. These groups wish the Americans to not fight. The American pacifists wish the Americans to not fight. If the Americans do not fight, the terrorists will attack America again. And now we know such attacks can kill many thousands of Americans. The American pacifists, therefore, are on the side of future mass murders of Americans. They are objectively pro-terrorist.
"There is no way out of this reasoning. No honest person can pretend that the groups that attacked America will, if let alone, not attack again. Nor can any honest person say that this attack is not at least reasonably likely to kill thousands upon thousands of innocent people. To not fight in this instance is to let the attackers live to attack and murder again; to be a pacifist in this instance is to accept and, in practice, support this outcome.
"As President Bush said of nations: A war has been declared; you are either on one side or another. You are either for doing what is necessary to capture or kill those who control and fund and harbor the terrorists, or you are for not doing this. If you are for not doing this, you are for allowing the terrorists to continue their attacks on America. You are saying, in fact: I believe that it is better to allow more Americans -- perhaps a great many more -- to be murdered than to capture or kill the murderers.
"That is the pacifists' position, and it is evil."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A26290-2001Sep26
With the fascinating article from Mark Steyn of the National Post linked below, we discover that every single person who questions warfare as the solution to America's problems can be counted among the "dead-eyed zombies of the peace movement who claim to love everyone [and] parade through the streets unmoved, a breed apart."
In what would be quite amusing under different circumstances, Mr. Steyn also purports - completely without a sense of irony - to characterize the right-wing as "particular", whereas to him, "the left love generalities".
- Ed.
http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20011004/719349.html
Cal Thomas is a lovely guy.
- Ed.
"These people don't care about dying or imprisonment. They see that as martyrdom. So let's make them martyrs, taking them out before they hit us. That used to be called self-defense. It should be again."
http://news.crosswalk.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID74088|CHID211724|CIID833732,00.html
"We should also beware of the infiltrators, apologists and America-haters. Look for them to raise their ugly heads in even greater numbers."
http://news.crosswalk.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID74088|CHID211724|CIID852334,00.html
Here's a twist. Take away the anti-Jewish slant from David Duke's piece of September 17, 2001, and there's a lot of rationale here with which I agree.
- Ed.
"Many in the American media and government are screaming for mass destruction
against America's newly perceived enemies. Recent opinion polls (CBS and CNN)
show that 60 to 75 percent of the American people endorse warfare against
suspected terrorists. They support these actions (and I quote the poll question
precisely) "even if it causes the deaths of thousands of innocent
people." It hurts my heart to think that a vast majority of the American
people take exactly the same view toward innocent human life as did the
terrorists of September 11.
"So far, I have heard no one, not one of the great moral media pontificators, the
President of the United States, our church leaders, or anyone else of prominence
who is brave enough to point out this blatant moral hypocrisy.
"So we are now going to fight terrorism. So what happens when America goes out
and bombs the hell out of countries and indiscriminately kills "thousands
of innocent people." Will we really end the threat of terrorism? America
has done the same thing before. Let's take a look at how it has worked out for
us.
"As pointed out earlier, in 1986 the Israelis gave America false evidence against
Libya and induced us to bomb the hell out of the country. We bombed a nation to
"fight terrorism" for a crime it did not even commit. A year after our
bombing, a few members of a radical group in Libya sought revenge and bombed Pan
Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, causing one of the worst air disasters
of all time, killing 270. We exact our revenge with B-1 bombers; they do it
through suicide bombers."
http://www.duke.org/writings/09-17-01.shtml
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