Posted on 08/10/2013 9:31:27 PM PDT by smoothsailing
By Daniel Greenfield
When you saw the name “Ted Koppel”, your first reaction was probably to wonder if he was still alive. The answer is, yes. He is.
Your second reaction was probably to wonder if he was still the same smug boring media personality reciting liberal truisms at the speed of a snail.
The answer also yes.
And for some reason the Wall Street Journal gave Ted Koppel editorial space to write one of those “The only real danger from terrorism is if we hit terrorists too hard” op-eds from 2002.
Ted may be getting a bit senile and probably thinks we’re on the verge of the Iraq War. The WSJ has no such excuse.
June 28, 2014, will mark the 100th anniversary of what is arguably the most eventful terrorist attack in history. That was the day that Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, shot and killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
... If there should ever be a terrorists’ Hall of Fame, Gavrilo Princip will surely deserve consideration as its most effective practitioner.
Terrorism, after all, is designed to produce overreaction. It is the means by which the weak induce the powerful to inflict damage upon themselves—and al Qaeda and groups like it are surely counting on that as the centerpiece of their strategy.
The problem with Ted Koppel’s argument is that Gavrilo Princip was backed by the Serbian government. Shouldn’t Austria-Hungary have declared war on a country that assassinated the heir to its throne?
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WWI wasn’t being fought about terrorism. The proximate trigger of an escalating conflict is not necessarily about the trigger. Ted Koppel claiming that WWI was about terrorism is not only ahistorical, it’s retarded....
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I would agree. His assessment is historically laughable. Also, note that he doesn’t go into why the Serbs were supportive of a terrorist attack on the Austro-Hungarians.
Sounds like someone in full denial of reality
Well, ole Ted has been wearing that wig too tight for a long time.
“Hello, I am Ted Koppel and this is NIGHTLINE...” he probably still says this before going to bed.
LOL! :)
Ted: Kenneth... where are my dentures?
Wife: You haven’t seen Kenneth for years, go back to sleep.
We keep forgetting, unlike the Brits who properly call them ‘newsreaders’, that these people are chosen to anchor the news for their hair and deep confident voices, nothing else.
His hair was always well kept, always waiting for him when he showed up at the studio.
Kudos, hair-taker whoever you were!
I think they nicknamed it “Tribble”
That poor horse still misses its tail!
lol
Didn’t he join Phil Donahue, Norman Mailer, , Radar, Alan Alda, Ellen Barkin, Cher and Red Buttons on one of the first Apology Tours?
One word. ASS
Rock hard stoopit.
Yes I read that and I even commented over there. It was an awful story. I mean you can’t please this guy. Even Obama (beloved by Koppel I’m sure) both under reacted to Benghazi and over reacted, with the embassy closings.
It did read like the ramblings of a confused, old, man and I’m surprised the WSJ even published it.
Give him time...he's gotta know the frequency first.
Sorry boys, that was Captain Dan the Newsman...
lol
cookies outta a box
all those newsreaders look alike to me!
:p
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