Here's some charming posts from the Right for you: This one, at Pirate's Cove, is upset because the police in SF are being scolded for making "racist, sexist, and homophobic" videos -- all in good fun, mind you!
The videos were a bit rude, maybe insensitive, a little overboard. However, did they physically harm anyone? No. All they did was offend some people. Considering what police have to go through, I do not blame them for wanting to blow off some steam. But, the San Fran Thought Police are now out to get the real police.
http://www.thepiratescove.us/2005/12/its_a_mess_in_s.html
Because, as we know, what people think. especially when those people are armed, and have the power to arrest, detain, and interrogate, has nothing to do with what those people actually do.
This is the same Infuriated Right, of course, that's All Outraged because the Universities are filled with Lefties. Have my lectures ever physically harmed anyone? (Never! Not even that time when I flung the chalk at the idiot in the back row! I swear!) Sure, I've been rude, from time to time -- once I did, in fact, shout at a devout Christian to shut up and listen when I was talking -- maybe that was a little insensitive. But no blood got spilled. So what's the harm, right?
And I ain't even pack a gun, for heaven's sake. All I have is a grade book.
Then, over here, Tammy Bruce, who claims she's seeking common ground with common sense, says,
I've noted a number of times how we owe Europeans, and especially the English, a deep apology for not intervening sooner in World War II. Until the strike on Pearl Harbor, we allowed so-called Pacifists and isolationists to determine this nation's (non)reaction to genocide and naked aggression. Some attitudes haven't changed. Thank goodness we as a nation have. So much for 'pacifism' and 'peace.' Because we waited and did nothing as the Axis powers raped the world, millions died. Of all the things we learned during World War II, from its beginnings in 1933 when Japan invaded China, it is to never mistake not being at war for peace.
http://tammybruce.com/archives/2005/12/we_will_never_f.php
While, as you can imagine, I wholly support the war that wiped out Hitler, finally, it's her attributions -- them evil pacifists -- and that last line really annoys me. Never a mistake to not be at war for peace?
So anytime some fuckwit comes along and claims we need to fight a war for peace, Tammy Bruce, you're going to sign up, are you?
What is it with these conservatives? Why are they so hung up on the code ethics? What is wrong, I ask you, I beg you, I beseech you, what is wrong with engaging your brain?
Yes, Tammy: there is a difference between WWII and Iraq.
No kidding. Really. Look and you will find it.
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There is also a huge difference (that appears to escape her) between pacifism and isolationism. America didn't intervene when millions were being gassed by Hitler because America didn't give a damn. That is hardly pacifism.
One of my classmates is an Iraqi student, who has left his wife and children there to come here and study. He says that the citizens there hate the American's intrusion, that they, some of the soldiers, are often as bad to the people as the other regime was. He says in the beginning they thought it would be great, but now, they are without power, food, and limited water. That what we see on TV is propaganda to make it seem like America has really done some great thing, but in fact, the citizens are starving, brutalized, and many are homeless. I say, how is that like WWII, in that war we liberated, in this war, we are invading and all for personal gain and what would that be...hmmm...oh yeah, oil and vengence of a madman-president.
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