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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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To: Sarah Barracuda

La Salle University Political Science Professor Michael “Boyle” is in dire need of a lancing with an Olympic Javelin...


41 posted on 08/24/2014 10:54:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: LtKerst

No, it’s Italian for “A SISI”...


42 posted on 08/24/2014 10:56:03 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: chessplayer

the NY Slimes didn’t call Hitler evil or Stalin either.

Par for the course for this newsrag.

Wait a sec...what about BokoHaram...will the Slimes blame Bush for its emergence too???


43 posted on 08/24/2014 11:01:58 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: chessplayer
It a moral hazard to call Isis evil or a cancer

The New York Times is an evil cancer to make this statement.

Follow the link below to see what this evil cancer called Isis does. WARNING! What you will see will turn your stomach and put rage and loathing in your heart. When you see the pictures you will know the only thing that can be done with ISIS is kill them coldly and efficiently and in great numbers until they are all dead. Nothing else will work.

AGAIN I WARN YOU THE PICTURES ARE LOOK AT TOTAL DEPRAVITY.

http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56481&wf=rsscol

44 posted on 08/24/2014 11:08:27 PM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
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To: cpdiii

This is the right link. It is evil.

http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=56481&wf=rsscol


45 posted on 08/24/2014 11:10:03 PM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
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To: chessplayer

Ideally we should wind up calling them casualties, KIA, the recently deceased, or something similar.


46 posted on 08/24/2014 11:17:38 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: chessplayer

The New York Times is the epicenter of an insidious, horrifying evil far worse that ISIS. Everything that is vile and profane, oozes from their pages. They have embraced Hitler and Stalin and will embrace the next mass murderers, too.


47 posted on 08/24/2014 11:18:06 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: RginTN

GMTA


48 posted on 08/24/2014 11:18:55 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: Vendome
Really? Cuz in my mind I’d run em over with the universe’s most awesome lawn mower, sipping American Eagle Whiskey and smoking a pack of Marlboro’s while their evil bodies are turned into confetti and the pieces tossed to the right into the worlds biggest trough, where I have collected pig and hog, from the world over, they can feast on the slurry that was once ....you...

ISIS, or the staff of the NYT?

Because if you REALLY want to excise evil from the globe, choose the latter.

49 posted on 08/24/2014 11:20:41 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: allendale
This man “teaches” at a Catholic college. The fact that ISIS is murdering Christian people and destroying their churches and culture is not “evil” to him. There was a time when such amoral ambiguity would not be found at a Catholic institution.

Catholics have gone whacko.

50 posted on 08/24/2014 11:22:45 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: Lazamataz

One and the same.

Part and parcel...


51 posted on 08/24/2014 11:24:28 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome
And the thing is, these asshats have been defending abject evil for more than 70 years. Curiously, no one has padlocked all their exits and torched their building.

That is so odd.

52 posted on 08/24/2014 11:28:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.
Most (other than people isolated from society) have, however, EARNED IT - if they are adults.
No equivocation.

When people with sources outside the drive by media challenge what they think they know, then they have both a moral and intellectual obligation to seek out the truth. Especially as things literally are life or death matters during this presidency.

They are not merely “lied to.”

They are mentally lazy, and are gambling on their lack of diligence not having a consequence.


53 posted on 08/24/2014 11:28:39 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: NoLibZone
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.

Don't forget that the Democrats tried to stymie Bush during the first 8 months of his term by delaying his transition funding, and then blocking his nominees for the deputy Secretary positions.

It wasn't until the 9/11 attacks that the Democrats were forced to stop throwing up roadblocks to Bush forming his administration.

Will that pattern repeat again in 2016?

-PJ

54 posted on 08/24/2014 11:30:03 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: GeronL
It is a real moral hazard not to call them evil.

Amen! What else would you call people who not only behead those who refuse to convert to their specific sect of Islam, but have buried some people alive and crucified others. One of the worst things I read is that they killed a five year old Christian boy by cutting him in half! If these actions are not evil, then nothing is!

55 posted on 08/24/2014 11:42:40 PM PDT by srmorton (Deut. 30 19: "..I have set before you life and death,....therefore, choose life..")
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To: chessplayer

And what does the NY Times know about “moral hazards”? The NYT wouldn’t recognize a “moral hazard” if they tripped over it. The NYT is completely devoid of anything remotely related to “moral”. They are legends in their own minds.


56 posted on 08/24/2014 11:43:06 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: chessplayer

sincerely, fu professor.

they are evil, they are savages, they are a cancer.


57 posted on 08/24/2014 11:52:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NoLibZone

president sandtrap won’t do anything, he’s happy all this is going on. as a muzzie he wants the worldwide caliphate and the mahdi to return.


58 posted on 08/24/2014 11:53:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Axenolith
What a ****ing idiot...

From the Freeper addendum to the new ICD-10:

321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

59 posted on 08/25/2014 12:01:43 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: srmorton

Failure to admit that this is evil is a big step toward sanctioning it.


60 posted on 08/25/2014 12:10:43 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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