Editorial Blog
October 16 to November 30, 2002
By JEFF RUSHING, Webmaster
Earlier this week, scores of Muslims rioted in Antwerp, Belgium after a Moroccan teacher was murdered on Tuesday by a white dockworker said to be mentally ill.
Abou Jahjah, 31, a Lebanese-born extremist who once fought for terrorist group Hezbollah, is blamed for stirring up the ethnic conflict and encouraging his Arab European League to target Flemish pubs and black-owned businesses, but spare shops displaying AEL stickers.
As the Telegraph notes, even the most liberal of Belgians realize what others in Europe and the U.S. don't, that Arab immigrants many times over don't want any part of a diverse society:
"Belgium's liberal media agreed yesterday that the country's experiment with tolerant multiculturalism had totally broken down. The Flemish newspaper De Morgen said: 'For a decade, the immigrant quarters of this country have turned into reservoirs of frustration, even hate. They have found a voice in Abou Jahjah.' Abou Jahjah rejects assimilation, demanding segregated schools and self-governing, Arab-speaking ghettos."
Posted 11/30/02, 6:22 p.m.
It's never too much beating up on Al Gore (besides, he makes it too easy). Today's installment laughs at his inability to convince the American people that he's an actual flesh-and-blood person, family man, or husband. Despite his endless campaign around the country on TV, the radio and newspapers to sell his book, "Joined at the Heart," written with wife Tipper, they can't even crack the top 20 of the New York Times extended bestseller list, while its sales rank on Amazon.com was 1,514 at deadline time (and 734 on BarnesandNoble.com).
Meanwhile, a New York Times-CBS poll released this week discovered that even though nearly 51 million people voted for him two years ago, 43 percent of Americans have a negative opinion of Gore, with only 19 percent holding a favorable view.
Posted 11/30/02, 6:22 a.m.
PETA is up to their same old tricks, this time under fire for a TV commercial featuring a terrorist turkey. No, not a terrorist from Turkey; I'm talking about the bird. Appearing only in Norfolk, Va., it depicts a store manager being bound and gagged and shoppers taken hostage, while an unseen terrorist threatens to beat, scald and dismember anyone who resists. The terrorist is revealed to be a turkey puppet, which urges people to stop eating meat.
Posted 11/30/02, 6:17 a.m.
A win for racial profiling, as a Pakistani businessman from San Francisco lost his lawsuit against United Airlines, after they kept him from boarding a plane soon after 9/11.
Posted 11/30/02, 6:13 a.m.
After two days of visiting previously-viewed sites in Baghdad, the UN inspectors took a day off. You see, Iraqi facilities are closed on Fridays. We wouldn't want to impose, now would we?
Can we please just end the charade sooner than later and get rid of Saddam?
Posted 11/29/02, 7:00 p.m.
Thirty years ago astronauts took tree seedlings around the moon with them. Since planted around the world, they could be in your neighborhood today.
Posted 11/29/02, 4:42 a.m.
Feds grabbed three men in a massive credit fraud scheme in which up to 30,000 people had their credit reports stolen and used illegally.
See, this is why I strategically maintain a bad credit rating. If I can't get a card, they can't either, so then they can't buy stuff in my name. Yeah, that's the ticket, it's all part of my plan.
Posted 11/29/02, 4:41 a.m.
Here’s an example of what happens when Palestinians try to prevent violence against Israelis. They’re executed as traitors, and their kids are branded for generations. Catholic nuns are the only ones willing to take them in.
Posted 11/29/02, 4:33 a.m.
The History Channel’s show selection seems rather odd sometimes. For example, apparently nothing says Thanksgiving like a marathon of “The Men Who Killed Kennedy.”
Posted 11/29/02, 4:20 a.m.
While environmentalists think Pres. Bush will rip up the planet and use every mineral to fuel his limo, they’re missing the real danger : Trees.
That’s right, trees. "Oak trees in Missouri's Ozark forests might be contributing to inexplicably high levels of a cancer-causing air pollutant in St. Louis," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suspect that naturally occurring emissions from the trees could help explain why St. Louis has among the highest levels nationwide of formaldehyde, a toxic gas believed to cause cancer."
Bush should get right on this by increasing logging and clearing land for farms. Would the greenies complain? Yes? What do you mean, they may be more interested in power than people? What a shock.
Also notice that while they moan about a few minor changes in pollution controls (that both greenies and companies dislike), very little is said about other environmental efforts. For example, Bush signed legislation Wednesday to clean up pollution at the bottom of the Great Lakes Basin, costing taxpayers $250 million.
Posted 11/29/02, 4:11 a.m.
Just an FYI on the economic front, when Dems try to convince you that we're doomed:
Consumers' confidence in the economy rebounded in November after sinking to a nine-year low, and gross domestic product, considered the best barometer of the nation's economic health, grew at a 4 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, faster than the 3.1 percent growth rate estimated a month ago, the Commerce Department said. (Associated Press)
Posted 11/26/02, 10:37 p.m.
Here's a shock from the religion of peace:
After more than 200 died from riots instigated by Muslims in Nigeria, the conservative state of Zamfara, the first of a dozen regional governments in the north to introduce strict Islamic sharia law, said on Tuesday it had told Muslims in a fatwa judgment that it was their religious duty to kill Isioma Daniel, a young female reporter in her early 20s who wrote the story in Nigeria's This Day daily newspaper that said 'prophet' Muhammad would find the Miss World contestants worthy as brides.
Posted 11/26/02, 10:37 p.m.
Shining a light in the dark alley of bigotry, we show that homosexuals are perfectly capable of violence over their hatred of Christians who disagree with their lifestyle.
Last week in Chicago, police charged a 19-year-old homosexual man with the murder of a 51-year-old co-worker whose body was found in his house. Nicholas Gutierrez has reportedly confessed to killing Mary Stachowicz in a fit of rage after the Catholic woman told him his lifestyle was morally wrong. If the woman had killed him, you can bet there would be news specials all over about anti-gay bigotry in the country. You'll never hear about this story, though.
It's the kind of thing that is ignored, such as Rod Dreher notes in National Review Online, that a Catholic friend of his active nationally in Courage, the organization for homosexually-oriented Catholics who wish to live faithful to the Church's teachings, and said he averages two death threats a week from gays hostile to his ministry.
Posted 11/25/02, 12:27 a.m.
Update on the religion of peace at work in Nigeria: Over 175 are dead, a thousand are injured and some 12,000 have been left homeless by rioting sparked by a silly comment about their 'prophet' Muhammed. The Miss World competitors wisely left for London, where the pageant will now be held.
Meanwhile, Nigeria continues its push to host the 2010 World Cup, which has been promised to the African continent. You can't make up this kind of gravitas.
Posted 11/25/02, 12:25 a.m.
During the 90s, and even into today, we were told that Nirvana and lead singer Kurt Cobain represented my generation, Generation X. I never accepted it, and even less now that his diaries have been opened eight years after he stuck a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Among the entries that Newsweek uncovered was Cobain saying that, "I like to make incisions into the belly of infants then ---- the incisions until the child dies."
Ick. And even more apparent that he didn't represent me or even 99.7% of the population: "I'm going to ----ing kill. I'm going to ----ing destroy your macho sadistic rightwing religiously abusive opinions . . . . Before I die many will die with me and they will deserve it. see you in hell."
It never failed to get on my nerves that Cobain's music was hailed as the sound of our generation, because it was no wonder that our parents that we were all slackers with dingy clothes, didn't take baths and wanted to throw ourselves off bridges than get a job. Hogwash. We're hardworking kids who want to succeed, just not in the same way as our parents and grandparents. Why couldn't our generation's anthem have been "Shiny Happy People"? That's a message worth sending!
Posted 11/22/02, 7:40 a.m.
Democrats are officially in full whine mode following their election wipeout two weeks ago. Soon-to-be former Senate Majority Leader Tom Das-hole even went back to the days of 1994 and blamed talk radio for inciting Republicans to the polls through underhanded means, comparing talk radio to terrorism.
First, Das-hole went after the favorite target for the Dim-ocrats, Rush Limbaugh:
“What happens when Rush Limbaugh attacks those of us in public life is that people aren’t satisfied just to listen, they want to act. They get emotionally invested. And so the threats to those of us in public life go up dramatically.”
Pretty heavy allegations, aren't they? Das-hole isn't done, though, not even pretending to hide what he thinks of the Dim-ocrats lack of success in talk radio and those of us on the Right who listen:
“We see it in foreign countries and we think well my God, how can this religious fundamentalism become so violent. Well it’s that same shrill rhetoric, that same shrill power that motivates. Pretty soon it’s a foment that becomes physical in addition to just verbal. And that’s happening in this country.”
There you go. Conservative talk hosts are no better than religious extremists in the Arab world, and listeners are sheep being led to slaughter opponents on the Left. The next two years should be a hoot.
Posted 11/22/02, 12:44 a.m.
Vermont senator Jim Jeffords - he of switching from Republican to Independent to give Democrats control of the Senate two years ago - has no pride. We knew that already. But reports say that immediately after this year’s mid-term election, Jeffords approached some Republicans and suggested that he might be willing to caucus with them in the Senate if they would just allow him to keep his chairmanship.
Wow, I'll bet that Republicans had to be peeled off the floor they were laughing so hard at this turncoat loser.
Posted 11/22/02, 12:38 a.m.
This week's best Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- I wish airlines would stop wasting money on floatation devices and start investing in some parachutes.
- The first Indian to hear a train thought it sounded like a tornado.
- Now that the Democrats have been booted out, the AJC can save all that space they used to use for corruption articles.
- Planned Parenthood, which wants abortions to be available for teenagers without parental consent, is requiring parental consent for teenagers who want to submit artwork for a contest.
-Three thousand years of evolution and we're still eating meat on a stick.
- To all those who believe that campaign promises will be kept: The line forms on the right to see Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy in person.
- Why is it they charge me extra for cheese on my burger, but won't give me a discount for leaving off the tomato, lettuce, onion, ketchup and mustard?
Posted 11/21/02, 9:02 a.m.
Islamic militants have killed at least 50 people and wounded 200 because a leading Nigerian newspaper said "prophet" Mohammad would have married one of the beauty queens at the Miss World pageant, being held in the country this winter.
I agree. Considering Mohammad's last wife was nine when they wed, the contestants are too old for Islam's hero. Religion of peace, I'm told.
Posted 11/21/02, 5:23 a.m.
Atlanta police will no longer chase drivers of stolen cars, minor traffic violators or suspected drunks because of "unfortunate" accidents. The Chief said it's dangerous to chase cars at 50 or 60 mph in Atlanta. Yeah, but that's because they're driving too slow for the rest of us!
Posted 11/16/02, 6:15 p.m.
No matter that the Atlanta Braves could lose two future Hall of Fame pitchers in Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine this offseason; I'm at least satisfied that they re-signed the four voices of the team: Skip Caray, Joe Simpson, Don Sutton and Pete Van Wieren, all of whom make any game worth listening to.
Posted 11/16/02, 6:15 p.m.
Augusta National Golf Club chairman Hootie Johnson has just become the sympathetic figure in the flap over it's male-only membership. Why? Because the Rev. Jesse "Shakedown" Jackson has joined the fray, and announced that Augusta practices "gender apartheid." Yep, nothing like a racial demogogue to get all of America on your side.
Posted 11/16/02, 6:15 p.m.
There is an anonymous State Department who deserves a promotion for speaking common sense on Europoe, as opposed to too many others in his office. Reporter Martin Walker posts a conversation with the official:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- "You want to know what I really think of the Europeans?" asked the senior State Department official. "I think they have been wrong on just about every major international issue for the past 20 years."
"They told us they could fix the Bosnian mess all on their own. Wrong."
"They told us the Russians would never accept NATO enlargement. Wrong."
"They told us that the Russians would never accept National Missile Defense. Wrong."
"They told us that if we withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 the whole structure of international arms control agreements would come crashing down. Wrong."
"They told us that the Kyoto Protocol was a good and worthwhile treaty, more than just cosmetics. Wrong."
"They told us that the European Union's new common security and defense policy would improve the military abilities of the NATO allies in Europe. Wrong."
"These were also the people who were wrong about Ronald Reagan and the Evil Empire, the same 'friends' who helped vote us off the United Nations Human Rights Commission. These are the people who whine about our Farm Bill when they are the world's prime protectionists. They are not just repeatedly wrong; they are also a bunch of hypocrites. So why should we pay attention to a single thing they say?" ...
"One more thing," he added. "Whenever I use the word Europeans, I don't mean the Brits."
Posted 11/14/02, 2:58 a.m.
A new study shows that "economic disparities between the descendants of former slaves and free blacks largely disappeared within just two generations following emancipation," The Dartmouth, an eponymous Ivy League student newspaper, reports. "There's nothing positive you can say about slavery," says economist Bruce Sacerdote, the study's author. "But what the study shows is how little slavery actually has to do with today's problems. It seems rather unlikely that slavery itself caused a lot of the racism problems present in the U.S. today." (OpinionJournal.com)
Bet you haven't heard that on the news lately. I guarantee that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the like have disowned any research like this. But you can bet that if the study had showed that slavery's effects were still prevalent, it would have led every newscast in the country.
Now, contrast the above with the flapping of jaws by a couple of quacks who think white guilt is the only way to survive this repressive world.
A pair of social workers and a psychologist "are writing a book about what they call 'post-traumatic slavery disorder'--a derivative of post-traumatic stress disorder," the Boston Globe reports. "They are holding workshops to propose to fellow professionals that drug abuse, broken families, crime, and low educational attainment in segments of the black community can be directly linked to the trauma of slavery, and that 'black people as a whole are suffering from PTSD.' " (OpinionJournal.com)
If that's still likely 140 years after the fact, then I'm suffering from 'post-traumatic French disorder', for my Huguenot ancestors who were kicked off the continent. Anytime I go to a fast food restaurant and see the "French" fries, my heart races and I hyperventilate.
Posted 11/14/02, 2:48 a.m.
The latest Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- Road sign seen on Kentucky highway: "Used Cows for Sale."
- I told my wife that if something I said could be interpreted two ways, choose the one that makes her happiest.
- I used to think “I love you” were the three best words in the English language. But now I know that it is “Road Construction Ends.”
- Some see things that are and ask why. Some dream of things that aren’t and ask why not. Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that crap.
- Now they tell us Jesus had a brother. And I thought I had a lot of pressure on me because my older brother was a high school All-American.
- Investing 101: Democrats: “Trust us to spend your money the way we want.” Republicans: “We trust you’ll spend your money the way you want.”
- If you jog in a jogging suit and smoke in a smoking jacket, what would you do in a windbreaker?
Posted 11/14/02, 2:39 a.m.
Have you noticed that all of the news articles regarding last week's election said that Republicans "seized" control of the Senate, or there was a GOP "takeover" of Georgia? Hey media, this wasn't a coup!
Posted 11/13/02, 4:12 p.m.
I don't understand the heming and hawing by Catholic leaders over regarding the abuse of children. Seems straight-forward to me: If you molest kids, you spend the rest of your days with the Church dusting catacombs in Morocco.
Posted 11/13/02, 3:20 p.m.
News has it that Al Qaeda had more than one plot to kill Pope John Paul II. I'm sure he has it coming to him, too, for being an imperialist pig.
Posted 11/13/02, 3:20 p.m.
As the election nears, please remember that the Democrats are a party of backseat drivers who don't have anything to say except that the current driver isn't good enough.
Posted 11/04/02, 3:30 a.m.
Also, just a referesher on the differences between the two sides of the political spectrum, in the form of a popular tale:
ORIGINAL VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying in supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well-fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house, where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him "pay his fair share and place it in a lock box."
Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Senator Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of Federal judges that Bill had appointed from a list of single parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug-related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
Posted 11/04/02, 3:30 a.m.
When President Bush gave the Cincinnati speech before a live audience laying out the case against Saddam, he personally edited the speech to eliminate applause lines that would give the impression of a political rally. It doesn't take much imagination to see that if his predecessor gave the speech it would've been twice as long and filled with an applause line every sentence to fuel Clinton's ego so he could drink in the admiration.
Posted 11/04/02, 3:18 a.m.
New Ponderabes from www.grif.net:
-- Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?
-- Why is a boxing ring square?
-- Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips?
-- Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
-- Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
-- Why is it that to stop Windows, you have to click on "Start"?
-- Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?
-- Why isn't there mouse flavored cat food?
-- Why are there no "B" size batteries?
Posted 11/04/02, 3:15 a.m.
I hear that Al Gore accused the California Angels of having "stolen" the World Series because they scored only 41 runs, while the San Francisco Giants scored 44.
Posted 11/04/02, 3:11 a.m.
Great thought by blogger South Knox Bubba:
"Predictably, Muslim leaders are expressing concern that the D.C. sniper will reflect poorly on Islam and give Muslims a bad name. You think? Is it possible for Islam to have a worse image at this point?"
Posted 10/28/02, 12:03 a.m.
Has anyone else heard anyone in the media link the sniper nuts to their Islamic beliefs? The only time I've heard it brought up is to almost apologize for the religion, as if it had nothing to do with his actions. Uh, I beg your pardon, but this guy, Muhammed, did change his name after Sept. 11, and is a member of the radical Nation of Islam, led by Luis Farrakhan. When I saw a spokesperson for the Council of Islamic-American Relations say on CNN that his religion shouldn't be a focus, I nearly choked on my soda.
If this had been a Christian extremist gunning down abortion doctors in such a manner, we'd get a report every ten minutes on how all those who are pro-life are nuts, and if it was an "angry white guy," the Left would once again be demanding that talk radio be regulated, since all those who listen to Rush are just fascists waiting for an opportunity, as happened after Oklahoma City.
Posted 10/27/02, 4:33 a.m.
Gotta say, I'm not liking this trend in country music videos where female soloists dress in skimpy clothes with too much makeup and drenching wet. One of the main appeals to the Southern male is that our womenfolk are good down-home gals, girl-next-door types in T-shirts, jeans and boots. That's sexy, not what I'm seeing too much nowadays on Country Music Television.
Posted 10/22/02, 2:33 p.m.
This is close to being the funniest thing I've ever seen on the Net. (Be sure to turn your sound on!).
Posted 10/22/02, 3:00 a.m.
There has been a very cool archeological find that could rival the Shroud of Turin as the most precious of Christian artifacts.
Biblical scholars think they could very well have the burial box of James, apostle and brother of Jesus.
Posted 10/22/02, 3:00 a.m.
Look for the loony left to begin pressing for "bow control" after this righteous act:
"A would-be car thief died Friday after he was shot by the car's owner, a camouflage-clad hunter toting a bow and arrow, police said.
"The thief was moments from a clean getaway when the hunter happened upon his car, police said. The man told the hunter he had a gun and threatened to kill him, said Sgt. T.E. Kiser of the Harris County Sheriff's Department homicide division.
"The hunter drew his bow and shot at the man, hitting him in the hip and buttocks area." (Houston Chronicle)
Posted 10/20/02, 2:17 a.m.
This week's best Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- Barbra Streisand is reason enough to be proud to be a Republican.
- The Democrats keep talking about how bad the Dubya economy is. Has anybody noticed how bad the dive has been since the Democrats got control of the Senate?
- In honor of Columbus Day, I'm going to discover a new shortcut from home to work and claim all the property along the route. Plus I get to rename everything.
- Is there a single Democrat out there who can lose gracefully?
- The Democratic Party motto: When your candidate is losing big, just change the rules and put in someone who can win.
- So Saddam claims he doesn't have weapons of mass destruction, but if we attack, he'll use them. Huh?
- There should be a law against using the terms "undocumented" and "pre-owned." For the last time, it's "illegal" and "used."
- Martha Stewart has taught us how to make many nifty things, and soon she'll show us how to make bail.
- The secret to my 42-year marriage is always admitting when I'm wrong and never admitting when I'm right.
- Men should never underestimate the effect you have on a woman when she spies you carrying a heavy box, working on a car or performing some other manly task. It makes me, a feminist, wanna don something frilly and go cook somethin' for ya.
- Printed on a bag of potato chips: "You could be the winner. No purchase necessary. Details inside."
- Why aren't all hurricanes named Wendy?
- Al Gore is counting on American stupidity or short memories, ignoring the terrible economic numbers during the last year he was in office.
- In a perfect world, you could put your head in the sand and no one would kick you in the rear end.
And a couple of mine that were printed last week:
Islamic extremists will not hate you any less if you own a Yugo instead of an SUV.
- Who cares if we helped Saddam in the '80s? Just because you help create the monster doesn't mean you can't kill it.
- How do you make God laugh? Make a plan.
- If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Posted 10/17/02, 2:22 a.m.
Talk about the worst possible day a cow could have:
A cattle truck crashed in Marietta, Ga., killing its driver and some of his cargo, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: "Authorities said nine cattle were killed in the accident, and four more will be euthanized because of their injuries. Twenty-nine cattle survived the wreck and will be transported to a slaughterhouse." (OpinionJournal.com)
Posted 10/17/02, 2:17 a.m.
Islam doesn't even mean peace for dogs!:
"A conservative Iranian prayer leader denounced the 'moral depravity' of dog ownership and called on the judiciary to arrest all dogs and their owners," Agence France-Presse reports. "I demand the judiciary arrest all dogs with long, medium or short legs together with their long-legged owners, otherwise I will arrest them myself", the Etemad newspaper quoted the cleric, named as Hojatoleslam Hasani, as saying at a Friday prayer sermon in the northwestern city of Urumieh.
Posted 10/17/02, 2:16 a.m.
Ever wonder what Ronald Reagan would do in the War on Terrorism?
Posted 10/16/02, 7:05 p.m.
Scottish lads know how to deal with nuts from PETA:
"Sean Gifford of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and an unidentified man in a cow-suit had planned a peaceful protest at the gates of the Grammar School to let pupils know about the claimed hazards in milk.
"But they had to be rescued by two female police officers when the teenage pupils launched a violent protest of their own.
"About 100 children, shouting "milk for the masses" and carrying banners, surrounded Mr Gifford and his "cow" partner and drenched them both in milk for about ten minutes. The police eventually intervened and escorted the PETA members back to their car." (The Scotsman)
Posted 10/16/02, 7:05 p.m.
Blah, blah, blah. War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, eh? Tell that to the Afghan girls freely attending school. War never solved anything except ridding the world of horrors upon horrors. As Edmund Burke noted, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Posted 10/16/02, 6:53 p.m.
The other day, I pondered why Muslims in India care what a shamed reverend in the U.S. says of their religion. I'm speaking, of course, about Jerry Falwell, who labeled Muhammed a "terrorist." OpinionJournal.com hits another home run, wondering if Falwell hit the nail on the head:
"Certainly Falwell's use of the term "terrorist" is unfortunate, if for no other reason than that it seems to endorse the extremists' interpretation of Islam, which many Muslims dispute. But if Falwell characterizes Islam as a violent religion and Muslims respond by taking to the streets, rioting and killing people, aren't they sort of making his point?"
Posted 10/16/02, 6:50 p.m.
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