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2003-10-12 Fifth Column

Susan Sontag criticizes Bush policies. Really.

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Posted by True German Ally 2003-10-12 9:26:31 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 New York-born author and human rights activist Susan Sontag on Saturday criticized President Bushâs policies as imperialistic and a break with 50 years of U.S. foreign policy tradition.

Human rights activist, my ass. This sorry excuse for an American is a communist, still hoping against hope for wrecking America's defenses.

ââItâs really the end of the republic and the beginning of the empire,ââ she said, referring to ancient Rome.

These spoiled east coast communists have a classical education mostly funded through private school, and while they can write rings around the rest of us, their jerkings off about ancient Rome are about as relevant as a human shield in Hanoi, Christmas, 1972; By the way, Miss Sontag: just where were you in December, 1972. Giving aid and comfort to a military enemy of the United States?

ââWe are in a new civilization, a post-political civilization,ââ she said.

Riiight. I call that having one's head up one's ass. That is where you want to live, please excuse me if I don't share your world view.

ââIâm not only a writer. Iâm first of all a person with a moral conscience,ââ Sontag said. ââI will never support a decision which seems to me absurd.ââ

I won't dismiss the 'I am a writer' bit, but Sontag's views are as immoral, vapid and absurd as they ever have been.

Posted by badanov 2003-10-12 10:07:10 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/weblog] 2003-10-12 10:07:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry for the double post, but I want to amplify my remarks:

Sontag and her little group who went to Hanoi, along with Fonda, Jane, are all still on the hook for treason, as far as I am concerned.

Posted by badanov 2003-10-12 10:13:54 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/weblog] 2003-10-12 10:13:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 My view on "American imperialism" is this:

The United States saved the world from nazism 50 years ago.
It saved the world from communism between 1945 and 1990.
In some decades, we will realize that the United States saved the world from another mortal threat: Islamofascism (and maybe Chinese domination).

In that sense, I'd like to rewrite Kennedy's "Berliner" speech.

" All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of America, and, therefore, as a free man I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Amerikaner."

Posted by True German Ally 2003-10-12 10:41:36 AM|| 2003-10-12 10:41:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 As an American, I'm flattered. Thank you.

And thank you for having to wash your hair instead of making Suzy's award ceremony.

Posted by Fred 2003-10-12 10:53:33 AM|| 2003-10-12 10:53:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Looks like Susan Sontag may be tomorrow's "Sontag Award Winner" in Andrew Sullivan's blog - given for immoral screaching and ivory tower preaching along with general detachment from reality as most people know it

Posted by Frank G 2003-10-12 11:23:28 AM|| 2003-10-12 11:23:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It's an important award so most German high ranking politicians had to attend.
From what I saw on television at least the conservative ones didn't look extremely happy. Some do recall what "imperialism" realy looks like.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-10-12 12:21:29 PM|| 2003-10-12 12:21:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 TGA, thanks for the kind words about us. I hope we live up to the thought in "Ich bin ein Amerikaner."

Posted by Steve White 2003-10-12 12:55:39 PM|| 2003-10-12 12:55:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 TGA, those are fine words.

I think they reflect some of my own feelings on the matter of "American Imperialism" - an oxymoron if ever I heard one.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2003-10-12 1:17:21 PM|| 2003-10-12 1:17:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I have a feeling that our empire isgoing to suck, becuase we keep ending up in places like Somalia and Afghanistan. You can't even get a cold Budweiser in Kuwait or Iraq. Can we please takeover Spain, Benidorm rocks and Palma is excellent as well.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-12 3:54:53 PM|| 2003-10-12 3:54:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 TGA: Well done! You are one guy who lives up to his "handle."

Posted by Mike 2003-10-12 8:05:59 PM|| 2003-10-12 8:05:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "ââItâs really the end of the republic and the beginning of the empire,ââ she said, referring to ancient Rome." Ah, how do they know she's referring to ancient Rome? Could be a reference to the rise of Napoleon III or the end of the Weimar Republic and the founding of the Third Empire (Reich).

Posted by Jabba the Nutt 2003-10-12 11:28:54 PM|| 2003-10-12 11:28:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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