"People have a right to their own opinions."
I recently read a very subtle discussion of the difference between a freedom and a right. Today, these are often conflated, but they are in fact different.
For instance, God gives us free will, which means that we are free to wreak evil, but not that we have a right to wreak evil.
Similarly, we are free to be wrong, but do not have a right to be wrong.
"And a very, very large part of the problem is the fact that Bush, Rice, and most of those dimwits at State actually believe the exact opposite."
No argument about the morons at State, but I hope you're wrong about Bush.
"We're going to get a wake up call pretty soon that's going to make 9-11 look like a Sunday school picnic. God help us if the Dems are in charge when it happens."
No argument there.
I hope I'm wrong as well. The problem is I see precious little evidence that I am. He keeps on blathering the same infantile platitudes that Dr. Rice does.
In spite of all the evidence he keeps insisting that 'most palestinians want peace' when they want nothing of the sort. They want every Jew in the Middle East dead and they make no secret of it.
First we were told free elections by the 'palestinians' (God how I hate that fiction, but that's another subject) would solve the problem. Well the 'palis' went straight ahead and elected one of the most murderous terrorist organizations on the planet with a huge majority!
The hand-picked 'moderates' supported by Bush, Rice, and those blithering idiots at Foggy Bottom lost in a bloody landslide.
The same situation attains in Lebanon where the muslim voting block routinely sends Hezbollah thugs to Parliament!
And yet in spite of all this evidence the President and his advisors still prattle on about the islamofacists wanting 'peace'. They want peace alright. They want the Jews to have the peace of the dead.
I've had this 'right to my opinions' discussion with more than one person. As I said, they have a right to an opinion but they don't have a right to their own facts.
And the fact is that that region of the world is inhabited in large majority by a bunch of uncivilized bloodthirsty murderous savages. The thing that should scare civilized people right down to their bones is the fact that almost any one of them can be right here in America with nothing more than a routinely issued passport and a ridiculously cheap plane ticket.
Our leaders haven't learned a damned thing from 9-11 in spite of all the studies, Commissions, recriminations, and 'new ways of thinking'. Nothing.
They're going to blather us into another attack and then spend their time back-biting each other over petty details without even once identifying the real problem.
L