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GITMO ON MY MIND -- Self-preservation Can Be Virtuous, Appeasement Can Be Suicidal!
ICONOCLAST ^ | Steven Rittenberg

Posted on 06/26/2005 2:49:10 PM PDT by clintonbaiter

Having vanquished Nazism and Communism, we are now challenged by a totalitarian, anti-semitic ideology disguised as a religion -- Islamo-Fascism.

The principles required for victory are no different than in any war: impose our will on our enemies by force of arms. But those enemies, sensing our superior battlefield strength, realize that our vulnerability lies not in our military capability, but elsewhere, in our highly civilized reluctance to use overwhelming force against our foes.

Over the years, especially since the Vietnam war, adversaries have learned target our soft home-front underbelly -- the mainstream media (MSM) and the opinion-shaping academic wordsmith elites. These hothouse flowers of Western civilization believe all conflicts between cultures can be peacefully resolved using words in a psychotherapeutically empathic manner.....

(Excerpt) Read more at iconoclast.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Vermont; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: appeasement; diplomacy; suicide; therapeutic
Bold words from an online blogger who is evidently a New York City psychoanalyst.

Now this is a therapist who understands human nature! Not some Howard Dean wannabe.

1 posted on 06/26/2005 2:49:11 PM PDT by clintonbaiter
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2 posted on 06/26/2005 4:28:28 PM PDT by PackerBoy (Just my opinion ....)
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