Posted on 11/18/2009 3:20:13 PM PST by Syncro
AT THE END OF THE DAY, DIVERSITY HAS JUMPED THE SHARK, HORRIFICALLY
November 18, 2009
It cannot be said often enough that the chief of staff of the United States Army, Gen. George Casey, responded to a massacre of 13 Americans in which the suspect is a Muslim by saying: "Our diversity ... is a strength."
As long as the general has brought it up: Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem. Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations.
Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), the Balkans and Chechnya. Also look at the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare -- I mean the beautiful mosaics -- in Third World hellholes like Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Central, L.A.
"Diversity" is a difficulty to be overcome, not an advantage to be sought. True, America does a better job than most at accommodating a diverse population. We also do a better job at curing cancer and containing pollution. But no one goes around mindlessly exclaiming: "Cancer is a strength!" "Pollution is our greatest asset!"
By contrast, the canard "diversity is a strength" has now replaced "at the end of the day," "skin in the game," "blood and treasure," "jumped the shark," "boots on the ground," "horrific" (whatever happened to the perfectly good word "horrible"?), "not so much," "I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," and "that went well," as America's most irritating cliche.
We should start making up other nonsense mantras along the lines of "diversity is a strength" and mindlessly repeating them until they catch on, too.
Next time you're at a cocktail party, just start saying, "Chocolate pudding is dramatic irony" from time to time. Eventually other people will start saying it, without anyone bothering to consider whether it makes sense. Then we'll do another one: "Nicolas Cage is a two-cycle engine."
Before you know it, liberals will react to news of a mass murder by muttering, "Well, you know what they say: Nicolas Cage is a two-cycle engine," while everyone nods in agreement.
Except mere nonsense makes more sense than "diversity is a strength."
If Gen. Casey's wildly inappropriate use of this lunatic cliche in the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre doesn't kill it, nothing will.
Among the worst aspects of America's "diversity" is that liberals' reaction to a heterogeneous population is to create a pecking order based on alleged victimhood -- as described in electrifying detail in my book, "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America."
In modern America, the guilty are sanctified, while the innocent never stop paying -- including with their lives, as they did at Fort Hood last week. Points are awarded to aspiring victims for angry self-righteousness, acts of violence and general unpleasantness.
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LOL, I didn’t think poster RonDog was so popular that he had his name on shirts!
Please, Ann, stop going on Geraldo’s show! You give him too much credibility and more viewers than he deserves.
"IronDog" is similar to "I-RonDog." Your wife? Or a fan of Todd?
Cheers!
Not me. Must be Todd. :o)
No I sound like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who warned against foreign adventures and entangling alliances. History has repeatedly proven them right. Bush had nearly eight years to "solve" the Afghan mess with our blood and treasure and couldn't do.
Win or pull out like Viet Nam? (Actually we did both there)
The relative success in Iraq (a lot of folks still dying there) was due to buy off the Sunnis who were killing Aemricans by giving money to insurgents who formed the so called “Sons of Iraq.” More recently, the U.S. troops have retired to their bases. The surge was too small to make a difference. Interestingly, when Obama proposed the same bribe strategy for Aghanistan, he was much criticized here. In any case, such as strategy will be more difficult in Afghanistan since the Pashtuns (who form the whole basis of the Taliban) are a much larger percentage of the population than the Sunnis in Iraq.
It isn’t our diversity that is our strength. It is how those from diverse backgrounds assimilate into our culture that is our strength. It is how we coalless into a single nation. The libs think we keep our cultural differences. But the truth is that just creates underclases and cliques. A great house is the sum of a lot of differnt materials. The key is that the parts are put together using an overall plan. Otherwise you would just have piles of wood, nails, and shingles.
Some of your statements are quite flawed.
Very true, thanks for you informed intelligent post.
Very well put.
I can only add that chocolate pudding is dramatic irony.
I'm surprised Captain Kirk you need an explanation. But many conservatives believe a failure in Afghanistan will embolden our enemies and encourage more jihad attacks. Giving up in Afghanistan will only place the focus back on our troops in Iraq. It will also embolden Iran, not that the present administration is doing much to discourage Iran. But still if they see us holding strong in Afghanistan they have to be wondering if we might turn the focus on them.
BTW, the Iranian Shi'ites and the Afghan majority have never gotten along. Our foreign policy over the last eight years has only helped Iran. First, as Ayatallah Khomeini had long urged, we overthrow Saddam and instaled a Shi'te regime. Secondly, we weakened another Iranian enemy to the east: the Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan and installed chaos in its place.
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