Posted on 07/07/2005 11:51:19 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
That paranoid, Manichaean mindset has Europe in its grip in some very powerful ways, and now the United States has joined it. This 21st Century war against Islam is the issue. The war in Iraq is making America the enemy of Muslims. And radical Muslim movements are on the upswing because of us. Because of us, not because of the jihadists from Saudi Arabia.
In our lifetimes, Islam has been a dozen different things. Islam in Indonesia, Islam in India, Islam in Bangladesh -- all very different from Islam in Saudi Arabia or Iran. Islam in China is very different. And yet all Muslims have reason now to suspect that they’ve been targeted in this broad, sweeping war of civilization, articulated by Huntington, and now really being waged by the Pentagon. It’s a terrible mistake, and it’s going to put its stamp on the 21st Century. It’s a nightmare.
PING!
These idiots are so tedious. At least the guy comes across as an unvarnished anti-American, sans the usual lipservice from the left about "love of country."
Ah, I was waiting for the Democratic response to the fireworks ever since the last cannonshot of the 1812 Overture in Washington DC.
Here it is.
An idea that obsesses the liberals. I've never once--not ONCE--heard a conservative talk about American innocence. But the left, which worships the imaginary "childlike" innocence as being a folk song-singing outstretched hand holding "bread" or "comfort" can't get over these ridiculous myths.
Carroll is adamantly anti-American and anti-Catholic, to boot. No wonder the Globe loves him.
Bull. The clash is a war between civilization and barbarism, and anyone who fails to see that isn't fit to be included among the *civilized.*
He must be a ghostwriter for Howard Dean.
Did this a$$hole just wake up ala Rip Van Winkle? Hey Carroll! What about the last 50 years (acutally the last 1400 years)? What part of submission don't you understand? Sheesh.
I guess being a dickhead comes easy to some people.
5.56mm
"Can we think about what, exactly, we were celebrating?"
Freedom, country, courage, our ancestors, the valiant dead who defended our country from its enemies, our children who will inherit what we leave them?
We sure weren't celebrating James Carroll and his friends.
If this doofus has to ask (whether rhetorically or literally) what we are celebrating, then he's not the kind of American worth sacrificing a single soldier's life for.
Who is James Carroll and why do we give d@mn what he thinks? Esp. since he seems to be from the PRM that continually re-elects scum like Ted Kennedy?
Carroll is a learned man whose ethics are truly bizarre, to me. He lives in that imaginary planet where if only we were all liberal, the world would be perfect. As a Bostonian I've been reading him for years, and I have to admit I don't think I've ever completely read ONE of his columns; the ignorance is too much for me to deal with. His view of human nature makes me suspect he's never held a blue collar job, never spent much time with people from varied opinions and socio-economic backgrounds, and only talks with people he knows share his worldview.
Too true. If everyone on the left was as honest about their true feelings about America as this jerk, the Dims would never win another election.
It is so terribly ironic that a schmuck like this can say dreadful things about the United States while our soldiers are defending his right to say such dreadful things. How dare he!
SOB, if he doesn't like it here, well, he ought to leave, go to Canada and get it over with - once an for all.
Phew. Feel better now.
You must be a masochist. Carroll sucks on the same level as Derrick "Z" Jackson.
>>>Ah, I was waiting for the Democratic response to the fireworks ever since the last cannonshot of the 1812 Overture in Washington DC.
Speaking of the 1812 Overture, does anyone else think it odd that on the day on which we celebrate our independence from England one of the most played songs is an orchestral work by a Russian commemorating the victory of Russia in the Napoleonic Wars in 1812?
Oh yeah, if we'd only given Al Qaeda in Iraq therapy instead of shooting and bombing them, they wouldn't be murdering Egyptian Envoys in Baghdad or blowing up busses, trains, and subways in Spain and Britain.
Not!
James Carroll should log on to his ATEX terminal at the Globe and type "INIT DP:" That should do the trick.
Any music that requires cannons as percussion is OK with me.
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