Posted on 02/01/2005 9:17:11 AM PST by .cnI redruM
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." -- Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
It took a Polish rescuer of Jews in the Holocaust, cited this week 60 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and death camp, to best describe those people who cannot or refuse to know the difference between good and evil. They are "worth nothing."
Since I was an adolescent, I have been preoccupied with evil: specifically, why people engage in it and why other people refuse to acknowledge its existence. As I have gotten older, I often find the latter group more infuriating. Somehow, as much as I don't want to, I can understand why a Muslim raised in a world permeated with hate-filled lies about America and Israel, and taught from childhood that God loves death, will blow himself up and joyfully maim and murder children. As evil as the Muslim terrorist is, given the Islamic world in which he was raised, he has some excuse.
But the non-Muslims who fail to acknowledge and confront the evil of Muslim terror and the evil of those monsters who cut innocent people's throats and murder those trying to make a democracy -- these people are truly worth nothing. Unlike the Muslims raised in a religious totalitarian society, they have no excuse. And in my lifetime, these people have overwhelmingly congregated on the political Left.
Since the 1960s, with few exceptions, on the greatest questions of good and evil, the Left has either been neutral toward or actively supported evil. The Left could not identify communism as evil; has been neutral toward or actually supported the anti-democratic pro-terrorist Palestinians against the liberal democracy called Israel; and has found it impossible to support the war for democracy and against an Arab/Muslim enemy in Iraq as evil as any fascist the Left ever claimed to hate.
There were intellectually and morally honest arguments against going to war in Iraq. But once the war began, a moral person could not oppose it. No moral person could hope for, let alone act on behalf of, a victory for the Arab/Islamic fascists. Just ask yourself but two questions: If America wins, will there be an increase or decrease in goodness in Iraq and in the world? And then ask what would happen if the Al Qaeda/Zarqawi/Baathists win.
It brings me no pleasure to describe opponents of the Iraqi war as "worth nothing." I know otherwise fine, decent people who oppose the war. So I sincerely apologize for the insult.
But to the Left in general, as opposed to individually good people who side with the Left, I have no apologies. It is the Left -- in America, in Europe and around the world -- that should do all the apologizing: to the men, women and children of Iraq and elsewhere for not coming to their support against those who would crush them.
That most Democratic Party leaders, union leaders, gay leaders, feminists, professors, editorial writers and news reporters have called for an American withdrawal and labeled this most moral of wars "immoral" is a permanent stain on their reputations.
About 60 percent of the Iraqi people went to vote despite the fact that every Iraqi voter risked his or her life and the lives of their children, whose throats the Islamic fascists threatened to slit. Yet, the Left continues to label the war for Iraqi democracy "immoral" while praising the tyrant of Cuba.
Leftists do so for the same reason they admired Ho Chi Minh and Mao Tse-tung and condemned American arms as the greatest threat to world peace during and after the Cold War. The Left "does not know the difference between good and evil." And that is why it is worth nothing.
Yeah. They have a "slightly different perception," all right. The fanatics on the Left happen to think that Islamic fascists are the new Minutemen.
If that's a "slightly different perception," you have to wonder what insanity is.
Right ..
"If God does not exist, then everything is permitted." --Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hey Ted....Did you tell her at least..."I'm sorry"..before you sprinted off in your wet clothes?....
I couldn't agree more with you and Prager. Well said.
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A very good article.
>>>>In time of crisis they rationalize that the highest duty is to snicker and sneer from the side lines at those who do the hard work and take the risks.
True to liberal form.
Leftists usually find that quote "liberating", they miss the cautionary aspect completely.
I'll have to try that out on the next attractive woman I meet at a bar, after a few beers, sometime.
Spot-on, direct-hit-on-the-left Bump
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Yeah you just reminded me of the documentary I saw on Rwanda, last night, Romeo D'Allaire, the Canadian UN Commander in Rwanda at the time said he had an opportunity to go and raid and scoop up all the arms caches of the Hutus, he knew exactly where they were, and he knew they were planning on massacring the Tutsis (or vice versa, whatever and to his utter astonishment, the UN said no, they were concerned about needless bloodshed or words to that effect - D'Allaire went on to have a breakdown as he watched the slaughter helplessly. The UN personfies evil.
Now if it had been General Lew McKenzie the other infamous Canadian UN commander, in the former Yugoslavia, he would have said, fuck the UN and gone in and gotten those caches and worried about the repercussions later.......
They tried to get Lew to run for Prime Minister to no avail.
Good summary!
[The American leftists are all cowards at heart. It isn't that they oppose fundamentalism; if that was the case they'd have opposed Mohammedanism. It isn't that they support equal rights; if that was the case they'd have opposed the Taliban. It isn't that they oppose oppression and violence; if that was the case they’d oppose Red China. It isn't that they oppose greed; if that was the case millionaire trial lawyers wouldn’t be their darlings. It isn’t that they oppose suffering; if that was the case they wouldn't have pushed Africa to ban DDT and therefore allow epidemics of malaria to kill countless children. What they ultimately oppose and fear is having something worth defending. Therefore what ever America does is wrong, and not only not worth defending, but morally wrong to defend. In time of crisis they rationalize that the highest duty is to snicker and sneer from the side lines at those who do the hard work and take the risks.]
Wow, that's very inciteful. They aren't even consistent with their declared ideology.
One would therefore conclude that the Left is suicidal (which fits with their views on abortion, euthanasia, and suicide). That means they are literally nuts.
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