Posted on 02/03/2006 5:04:00 AM PST by .cnI redruM
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004440.htm - A link to Malkin's post in asimilar vein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ - Since it's Friday, you might even be able to stand Serrano (included to put my comments in proper context, not to support his continued "art".)
If there was a concerted world-wide effort to insult muslims would they totally flip out and become impotent as a group?
Look at the results of one cartoon.
Our free press and freedoms that allow loonies like Cindy Sheehan have completely failed at making the U.S. public "concerned" over either collateral damage or the destruction normally reaped in warfare. Therefore, since 1960, virtually ALL anti-war efforts have emphasized our casualties and the harms to our society.
This, however, has not reduced our involvement in wars (in my view, all of them just) but HAS changed our military's effectiveness, because even more than WW I (and this was huge after WW I), we have become even more sensitive to taking casualties. But rather than making us wimps, it has made our troops the best trained, most efficient, best armored, and best supported military forces in human history.
The exposition in the book is longer, but you get the point: the anti-war nuts have actually made our troopers and sailors and airmen DEADLIER, and resulted in even fewer dying.
"Alex, I'll take the penis mighty for $20"
What has made the pen mightier than the sword is those people throughout history who cared more for the power of their ideas than for the safety of their own skins. The person may be persecuted, injured, imprisoned, or killed, but the idea lives on and eventually emerges victorious over those who may have destroyed the idea's originator.
It's a natural human reaction to be concerned with self-preservation. But if these people and publications truly believe in their self-given titles as defenders of free speech, then they may have to risk pain, humiliation, or even death in order to make that fight. Turning tail and cowering, for any reason, makes them hypocrites.
The correct reaction to this "furor" is for every news organization in the world to run the cartoons. Firstly, it is a major news story. Secondly, they need to present a united "don't **** with us" attitude that they will not be cowed or censored. So, since we know the correct approach, we can also predict what CNN will do: just the opposite.
(((Sigh)))
Sadly, we've long known we can't trust CNN ("we'll supress news so we can get access") on this score. Google is now singing the same, capitulating, tune.
For those who haven't had the pleasure:
That was funny...
Yep. Cnn will not republish the cartoons 'out of respect for Islam' but has not problem showing hostages, flag-burnings, bodies hanging from bridges or publishing National Security secrets (even thought the Times did it first)
Yep, fair and balanced, my a$$.
Not exactly the connection, but the fact is that since the Civil War, CIVILIAN concerns over casualties have pressured the military to steadily address battlefield casualties. You're welcome to read the primary sources from the Army in WW I where there are regular references to the CIVILIAN outcry about casualties.
Beat me to it...so to speak.
Here's your problem. America hasn't won a war in 61 years.
Here's your problem: you believe that nonsense.
I was channel surfing a day or two ago, and I was just passin' through CNN when I say a teaser that talked about how the Muslims have had it (with anti-Muslims slights). I wonder if it should be renamed the Crescent News Network.
Come now, it's an objective fact. No one won Korea, we lost Vietnam, GW1 we let Saddam get up and keep on keeping on... And this war isn't won yet. It's not nonsense.
The stated military goal of the First Gulf War was to eject The Iraqi Army from Kuwait. The Iraqi Army was forcibly ejected. Therefore, The US and it's coalition won.
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