Where's Chinese Gordon when we need him?
--good article--as always from "Dalyrmple"--
"Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, a man with all the qualities of Neville Chamberlain except his fundamental decency,... "
ouch!
Theodore Dalrymple nails it again.
At some point we shall have to confront the threat directly,vigorously,and unapologetically."Well said and i agree,but we're no where near that point yet.What's it going to take,a few more 911 type attacks?
Ouch!
What will get the UK's dander up? If Muslims kill the queen or the princelings? There has to be something they value enough to say, We've had it. (Just treat Muslims like the IRA.)
LOL!
The folks in NY never lose their sense of humor.
for the youngun's in the forum, here's a link to the IMDB site for
the old movie that inspired the title of the article:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070450/
...The supposition that the kind of people who call publicly for beheadings, or tell Europe to prepare itself for the real holocaust (the connection between Muslim extremism and Holocaust denial being a very strong one), will feel placated by a few expressions of sympathy for their supposedly offended feelings is psychologically preposterous and demonstrably false empirically. It is the reductio ad absurdum of the Clintonian propensity to feel other peoples pain as a substitute for a policy.
At some point, we shall have to confront the threat directly, unapologetically and vigorously. If we dont, it will be our own pain that we shall feel, not the pain of other people. And, in a sense, we shall have got what we asked for.
Nailed It!
Moral Clarity BUMP !
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<< .... a masked protester in London, holding up a placard demanding the death of those who insult Islam. Policemen flanked him on either side, as if protecting him from the vicious assaults of cartoonists.
Nothing could have captured better the cowardly and pusillanimous response of the British government ....
In condemning the cartoons, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, a man with all the qualities of Neville Chamberlain except his fundamental decency ... >>
This joker has taken a stone-cold dead-to-rights aim at the quivering yellow jello that is what passes for the dead and decadent once great Britons' collective back-bone. And is swinging so close by the the place once filled by the collectivist British soul and character that he risks being swept to his destruction within the black hole that now occupies that space.
The black hole that is, best and most frequently demonstrated by the obscene moral relativity of the execrable Jack Straw.
As to poor old Neville Chamberlain? He will forever be castigated for no greater sin than being, until Jack Straw, the past two hundred years' only British politician to truly know and to as-truly represent his electorate.