Cordially,
Monsters ARE insanely vicious. bttt
The Care and Feeding of Media Monsters
"....Liberals, of course, want us to understand the terrorists. But one of the first things I learned in my psychoanalytic training is that real empathy has nothing to do with reinforcing someone's delusions just to make them feel better. Rather, it must involve things like confrontation, interpretation, clarification, etc.
"So the most empathic thing you could do for a bin Laden [type] -- for the whole Islamic world, for that matter -- would be to confront them with the truth of which they are so desperately in need, for a mind deprived of truth still "needs to eat," but it will feed on lies, which in turn creates a monster.
"You do not flatter them with the monstrous lie -- as did Secretary of State Clinton the other day -- that "you folks have your politically motivated extremists and so do we, with that tea partier who murdered all those people the other day."
"Lies are monster food. All monsters feed on lies, and a monster is simply a living lie. They are the lie made flesh.
"Hitler could not have been the monster he was without a steady diet of outrageous lies with no connection whatsoever to reality. Stalin, Mao, Castro, Arafat, Pol Pot, and all the rest of the 20th century Monster Club -- all were soulless zombies because of their fidelity to the Lie which created them.
"In this regard, you can certainly see how ideology becomes a substitute religion rooted in the satanic eucharist (or "dyscharist") of ingesting the Lie. Once the liar is in place, he needs a steady diet of more lies in order to maintain himself. Conversely, he will respond to truth in the way a vampire reacts to garlic or Obama to media scrutiny. ..."