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2004-03-20 Home Front: Politix

Nurturance and Terrorism - an inadequate political discussion

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-03-20 11:50|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The fatuous condescension of the this piece is mind-boggling.
First, any decent parent knows that you are either strict or nuturing according to the child and the situation. To posit that you are either one or the other is something that you would expect from the ivory tower types that never had a real child in their house 24x7.

As a metaphor for foreign relations it is worse than bizzare, it is condescending and insulting. This is a typical academic liberal elitist view. Everyone is a child that needs to be guided by their "parents" who know best. Tell you what, go scrape OBL off his cave wall and make him take a "time out" before he can go play with the other children again. And, oh yeah, add Saddam and the Mad Mullahs and Li'l Kim and .........Bleccchhhh!

Posted by Alan 2004-3-20 1:47:41 PM|| 2004-3-20 1:47:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Those who prattle on about "nurturing" terrorists (or Muslims in general) are probably just trying to reassure themselves that they have some control: if OBL and his fellow-travellers are children, then we can set them straight simply by following the "correct" pedagogical prescription.

Same deal with the "ask ourselves why they hate us" crowd: if terrorism is really our own fault, rather than the terrorists', then we have some control; and we can make ourselves safe simply by "fixing" our own naughty behavior.

Wrong, either way: they're adults, and they mean to either kill us or subjugate us.

Unless we kill them, first.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-3-20 2:18:27 PM|| 2004-3-20 2:18:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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