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NYT Op-Ed: It's a 'Moral Hazard' to Call ISIS 'Evil' or a 'Cancer'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/08/25/nyt-op-ed-its-moral-hazard-call-isis-evil-or-cancer ^

Posted on 08/24/2014 9:50:21 PM PDT by chessplayer

In a Friday op-ed which appeared in the paper's international print edition on Saturday and which can reasonably be seen as giving voice to an editorial board which wouldn't dare put their name to it, La Salle University Political Science Professor Michael Boyle strenuously objected to recent characterizations of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

We can't call ISIS "evil." We also shouldn't call them a "cancer," or "savage," or "barbaric." Oh, and the fact that George W. Bush called Al Qaeda "evildoers" is why ISIS came to be, and why our problems with radical Islam are now worse.


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KEYWORDS: 911wtc20; andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; chirlanemccray; isis; jayvee; jihad; lasalleuniversity; michaelboyle; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; wtcattacksround2
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1 posted on 08/24/2014 9:50:21 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Well professor, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....


2 posted on 08/24/2014 9:52:05 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: chessplayer

History is being repeated.

A weak DNC admin does nothing about a rising threat , leaves office and is followed by a GOP administration, that must in months make up for 8 years of White House play time.


3 posted on 08/24/2014 9:52:59 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: chessplayer

What a ****ing idiot...


4 posted on 08/24/2014 9:53:32 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: chessplayer

All the beheadings, all the forced circumcisions, all the forced clitorectomies, all the mass executions...

Moral hazard? No. These are morals crimes against humanity.

Reading the NYT Op Ed section is anther moral crime against humanity.

If the Left policed themselves 1/10,000th as much as they do Tea Party members/Conservatives, there would be few problems in this nation.


5 posted on 08/24/2014 9:53:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: chessplayer

It is a real moral hazard not to call them evil


6 posted on 08/24/2014 9:55:39 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: chessplayer

La Salle University Political Science Professor Michael Boyle


Hey Mikey, here’s an idea, how about you get your butt to Syria and let ISIS have some fun with you, let’s see how you like them apples..oh and by the way..Muslims attacked US on 9/11..not the other way around..they started it and we are gonna finish it, hopefully


7 posted on 08/24/2014 9:55:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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It’s actually worse than that. Unlike Bush when the charges were made against him by the Left, Obama does face the guilt of being an international criminal of sorts, and in particular a traitor to the United States.

This man is trafficking in children across international lines.

He sought financing for this months before it exploded. He knew in advance, did nothing to stop it, and facilitated it every step of the way.

He is a human trafficker.


8 posted on 08/24/2014 9:56:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: chessplayer

I heard it is a religion of peace.


9 posted on 08/24/2014 9:59:05 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool])
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but can you just imagine what he called the tea party.


10 posted on 08/24/2014 9:59:59 PM PDT by willywill
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To: DoughtyOne

This is what happned when we arfned of the coming 9-11 attacks.

The exact same thing.

This time the attack on the blue cities shall not tug at my heart strings.


11 posted on 08/24/2014 10:00:01 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: chessplayer

And the NYT is morally bankrupt, so what platform do they claim to deserve to make such an asinine proclamation?


12 posted on 08/24/2014 10:00:14 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: chessplayer

How about “Naughty”? “Less than morally compatible”? “Beyond the good and evil of mere mortals”?


13 posted on 08/24/2014 10:00:35 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: chessplayer

Cowering behind his computer. Pathetic!


14 posted on 08/24/2014 10:02:03 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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To: chessplayer

The NY Slime is a moral hazard. Another reason the “the old gray whore” should be out of existence. “All the news that is fit to print” has become “all the news that we cannot morally defend and does not fit our leftist viewpoint. “ What a joke. Pinch, give it up—your days are numbered and it could not happen to a better example of a commie RAT. I hope you go down hard you pathetic excuse for a “journalist.”


15 posted on 08/24/2014 10:03:48 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Axenolith
What a ****ing idiot...

Well I would say that he is a prime example of the definition.

Those with an IQ of 0 to 25 (an IQ of 100 is average) were called idiots, 26 to 50 were called imbeciles and 51 to 70 were called morons. Morons could communicate and learn common tasks; imbeciles stalled mentally at about six years old; and idiots couldn't respond to stimulus or communicate with any level of competency.

16 posted on 08/24/2014 10:04:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: chessplayer

These are the same idiots that thought Stalin was a wonderful leader and Hitler was a barbarian.


17 posted on 08/24/2014 10:04:28 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: chessplayer

The Professor

18 posted on 08/24/2014 10:05:41 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: chessplayer

He’s afraid they’ll track him down an kill him.


19 posted on 08/24/2014 10:05:53 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> an editorial board which wouldn’t dare put their name to it, La Salle University Political Science Professor Michael Boyle strenuously objected to recent characterizations of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Thanks chessplayer.


20 posted on 08/24/2014 10:06:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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