Inside the Beltway/Deadly Metaphor

The Washington Times ^ | January 10, 2003 | John MCaslin

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Deadly metaphor: Has an antiwar screed by a Beverly Hills sex therapist inflamed anti-American sentiment in the Islamic world — even inspiring terrorism?

Yes, according to the Boston Globe.

Susan Block, a California sex therapist who hosts a syndicated radio show and HBO's "Radio Sex TV," wrote an April 15 column titled "The Rape of Iraq" for the antiwar Web site Counterpunch (www.counterpunch.org).

The column used rather elaborate metaphorical language to compare the conquest of Baghdad to rape. Televised expressions of gratitude by the Iraqi people were being used to justify "the Anglo-American rape of Iraq," Miss Block wrote: "As the rapist would say, 'I gave her what she really wanted.' She needed to be raped. She wanted to be violated."

Such metaphors apparently don't translate well.

On Oct. 22, Yeni Safak, an Islamic journal in Turkey, published an article that said "thousands of Iraqi women are being raped by American soldiers. There are more than 4,000 rape events on the record." The journal cited "Dr. Susan Block" as its source.

The U.S. Embassy in Turkey responded by condemning the Turkish journal for publishing "outrageous allegations based on a U.S. 'source' best known for her pornographic Web sites and erotic television program," according to the Globe.

Whatever the source, Ilyas Kuncak of Istanbul was enraged by the reports, according to his son, Nurullah Kuncak.

"Didn't you see? The American soldiers raped Iraqi women," the son told the Globe's correspondent in Istanbul. "My father talked to me about it. Thousands of rapes are in the records. Can you imagine how many are still secret?"

On Nov. 19, Ilyas Kuncak drove a car bomb into the Istanbul headquarters of the British bank HSBC, his suicide attack part of four separate al Qaeda-planned car bombings that also destroyed the British Consulate and two synagogues in Istanbul, killing 27 and wounding more than 400.

For her part, Miss Block says she is horrified and tells the Globe she never meant her charge of an American "rape" of Iraq to be taken literally: "I am appalled to be misquoted and even more appalled that the story inspired someone to such violence."

•John McCaslin, a nationally syndicated columnist, can be reached at 202/636-3284 or jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com.

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More toxic/treasonous lies from the Left and more victims who became casualties of their war against America. Hate radio hidden in a Liberal metaphor.

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"For her part, Miss Block says she is horrified and tells the Globe she never meant her charge of an American "rape" of Iraq to be taken literally: "I am appalled to be misquoted and even more appalled that the story inspired someone to such violence."

You can start life on the left, but if you are honest and able to look inward, your life experiences become a guide that helps you understand the virtues that so many on the right extol. For example, words have meaning. Marriage is an example of a word that has meaning.

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"You can start life on the left, but if you are honest and able to look inward, your life experiences become a guide that helps you understand the virtues that so many on the right extol."

Like appreciating love, beauty, kindness and all the other 'good' in the world - after confronting their opposites. Without vice; how could we appreciate virtue?

Just wonder, though, how it can be that any one person on the Left can so long delude themselves; kind of like looking at life wearing glasses; when you do not need any.

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It's obvious that this woman cares little for responsibility.

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"It's obvious that this woman cares little for responsibility."

These people only feel responsibility for their agenda - the 'good' be da--ed.

And yes, re that responsibility we imagine she should feel; I wonder, might she just feel a twinge of guilt?

But given the human ruins left in the wake of the Left's idiological goals, which causes not a even a blink response; think it simply is not wired into to their program.

No guilt. . .but they do feel the 'pain' of the prisoners in Guantanamo. . .the pain and humiliation of Saddam, but not the pain of the millions killed by Saddam; not the pain of our soldiers; but rather the 'victims' of the war they fight.

Oh well the picture is clear enough. . .

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"It's obvious that this woman cares little for responsibility."

Most of what is said by the left in general and DemocRats in particular means death for Americans and for what they stand for. What this particular, immoral leftist had to say had more immediate, and directly traceable consequences.

She just left her fingerprints on it, which they don't usually do. Now she'll cry crocodile tears about the unintended consequences of her anti-Amercian diatribe. It just means like a cockroach with the lights on, she is caught. She's not sorry and will not change her views.