Posted on 09/16/2007 8:37:26 AM PDT by goldstategop
...[T]he shot heard around the world and so forth. Anyway, Gov. Patrick didn't want to leave the crowd with all that macho cowboy rhetoric ringing in their ears, so he moved on to the nub of his speech: 9/11, he continued, "was also a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other."
I was laughing so much I lost control of the wheel, and the guy in the next lane had to swerve rather dramatically. He flipped me the Universal Symbol of Human Understanding. I certainly understood him, though I'm not sure I could learn to love him. Anyway, I drove on to Boston and pondered the governor's remarks. He had made them, after all, before an audience of 9/11 families: Six years ago, two of the four planes took off from Logan Airport, and so citizens of Massachusetts ranked very high among the toll of victims.
We should beware anyone who seeks to explain 9/11 by using the words "each other": They posit a grubby equivalence between the perpetrator and the victim – that the "failure to understand" derives from the culpability of both parties. The 9/11 killers were treated very well in the United States: They were ushered into the country on the high-speed visa express program the State Department felt was appropriate for young Saudi males. They were treated cordially everywhere they went. The lap-dancers at the clubs they frequented in the weeks before the Big Day gave them a good time – or good enough, considering what lousy tippers they were. Sept. 11 didn't happen because we were insufficient in our love to Mohamed Atta.
How many people in any society think like Deval Patrick? That's the calculation to make if you want to figure out its long-term survival prospects.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
IBTP bump!
Thanks for that link, I have never heard of Mr. Kelly.
Nicholas Berg came to Iraq, unarmed, seeking to help rebuild the cell phone infrastructure. He had done such work in remote parts of Africa where he taught villagers how to build their own antennae towers. To Al Qaeda, Berg’s humane instincts may have seemed more a threat than had he been a soldier. His murder was videoed and put on the internet to warn anyone else with a peaceful mission.
We need to celebrate our commonality before it’s too late. Immigrants need to embrace America and what she stands for. If legal immigrants wanted to live within their native culture 100% of the time, they should have stayed in their home country. People come here for a better life than the one they left. Multiculturalism will be America’s downfall. Stop the slide before it’s too late.
Steyn really is brilliant and always sees through the bs.
What? You mean this is more complex than just profiling people of Middle-Eastern descent?!?
I really like this column. He made two insightful statements on the dangers of moral relativism:
1. “Because they understand that when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of Deval Patrick-style cultural relativism – nothing is any better or any worse than anything else; “
2. “We should beware anyone who seeks to explain 9/11 by using the words “each other”: They posit a grubby equivalence between the perpetrator and the victim – that the “failure to understand” derives from the culpability of both parties. “
Patrick.... along with Kennedy, Kerry, Frank, what is wrong with the voters in Massachusetts?
At least three of its alumni – including another native German convert – have been killed fighting the Russians in Chechnya. Fritz was hoping to kill Americans. But that's one of the benefits of a multicultural world: There are so many fascinating diverse cultures, and most of them look best reduced to rubble strewn with body parts. Fritz and a pal, Atilla Selek, had been arrested in 2004 with a car full of pro-Osama propaganda praising the 9/11 attacks. Which sounds like a pilot for a wacky jihadist sitcom: "Atilla and the Hun."
Deadly serious column, but as usual Steyn manages a world-class zinger pointing out the absurdity.
How many people in any society think like Deval Patrick? That's the calculation to make if you want to figure out its long-term survival prospects.
Too many unfortunately - and I mean more than one is too many! Meanwhile, let's open more publicly-funded arabic language and culture charter shcools! Any school board that supports such lunacy should be .... well, I can't say it - I'd be banned!
Everyone should hear of him. He was brilliant and insightful.
He wrote 2 books and was writing a 3rd when he was killed by those evil ....
grrrr
He was a personal hero of mine. I used to wait for his weekly column every Wednesday.
I sometimes imagine what he would be doing with today’s news. He’d chew some of these publicity whores (politicians and reporters) up and spit them out, let me tell you.
He was all about HONOR and decency. Someone said of him once that he saw more in a glance than others saw in a week.
The world is a lesser place because Mike Kelly is not in it.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems awfully inappropriate to say that those on the planes, and those in those buildings, were not "loving" and "understanding" people.
What will it take for people to understand that we are not just fighting an evil subset of TROP™?
Deval Patrick is an utter fool. Talk about an empty suit.
I miss Mike Kelly, too. Great writer, fine man.
reminds me of that nutty preacher who in the original “War of the Worlds” —the one with Gene Barry, tries to take to the Martians. By the way. Wells, would not have cut it on today’s radical scene: he could actually speak of the “implacable” hatred that the Martinas felt toward mankind.
"He could have advocated the war in Iraq without going to cover it. he could have covered it without putting himself in harm's way. But liberty is an expensive feast. And Mike was a man who always picked up the check."
A toast to Michael Kelly!
A nice plug for Howie Carr as well.
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