Michael Goodwin @ New York Post:
Gone, thankfully, are the days when rape victims routinely were treated as if they deserved it. Perhaps the time also will come when the American people are no longer blamed after terrorists kill them.
We are not there yet.
In a rancid piece of trash that basically calls the Boston terror attack just deserts, a United Nations official says “the American global domination project” is the problem. Richard Falk, a professor at Princeton, urges politicians to “connect the dots” between US foreign policy and terrorism at home.
He asks: “Should we not all be meditating on W.H. Auden’s haunting line: ‘Those to whom evil is done/do evil in return’?”
He predicted “worse blowbacks” and said, “As long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American political establishment, those who wish for peace and justice in the world should not rest easy.”
Falk, an American ingrate and Arab apologist, has spouted nonsense before, suggesting our government had a hand in 9/11. His new assault appears online in Foreign Policy Journal, where nearly every other article attacks Israel.
As for his UN sinecure, Falk fits right in. Turtle Bay’s main activity these days is siding with Jew-haters and bashing its hosts while demanding that we give them more cash to fund their folly. And we do!
Yet Falk is not the only one with warped views. His praise for President Obama’s apologies to Muslims should give the president reason to pause, but the White House is too busy making sure it passes the test of the Boston bombing trial.
Not so much the test of whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty, about which there seems little doubt. Rather, the trial is a test of American values, according to all the president’s men.
Obama himself still refuses to cite Islam as a motive for the bombing, despite the copious evidence investigators and the media have produced. He rushes to judgment only when it suits his worldview.
No doubt the president is hanging back now because he feels the need to protect ordinary Americans from the inconvenient truth. Otherwise, he suggested Friday, their innate bigotry against Islam will burst forth in murderous rage. His political correctness is so extreme as to suggest he imagines that, if Christians and Jews see an Islam connection to terror, they might start wearing suicide belts themselves.
Islam is no more a motive in this case than Christianity has been a motive for abortion clinic bombers or the assassins of doctors who perform abortions.
Religion can be a context for homicidal fanaticism. It’s not the religion that’s to blame. It’s the homicidal fanaticism.
@Greg:
Yet you think that crimes are committed by scary-looking, inanimate objects, rather than by the criminal scofflaws who wield them, and use that belief as justification to ban said inanimate objects from the law abiding citizenry who use said objects responsibly.
@Ditto: Maybe we should send Greg on a trip to Pakistan or the Middle-east. Some people were never taught critical thinking skills in their liberal class rooms. They were taught to spew the party line just like the sheep on “Animal Farm”! “Four legs good, Two legs bad!”
@Randy: Some people in this country never learn to think critically either.
Yesterday I had the unfortunate pleasure of hearing Brian Williams (wrong place, wrong time). At one point he referred to what happened in Boston as a “disaster”. Most people think of disasters as being natural or if caused by man, an accident. By calling what happened in Boston a disaster as opposed to what it really was- a terrorist act, it desensitizes the public as to what really happened. Just picture FDR calling the attack on Pearl Harbor a disaster as opposed to an act of war when he went before Congress seeking a declaration of war. I suppose when Gacy brutally murdered what probably amounted to over 50 people it was a disaster and not murder. PC at its best.
@another vet: Just another exemplar illustration of LIEberal lunacy.
I do have to adjust your statement re: disaster should be called a terrorist act — not quite — it should be called – — AND IT WAS — a terrorist ATTACK!
@Budvarakbar: You are correct. Anything to downplay what really occurred. It’s amazing how PC this country has become.