tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081747433018117316.post6711774842859346627..comments2024-03-13T13:55:24.043+05:00Comments on THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS: When did America turn into a nation of victims?Tom Shonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06938779517705582285noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081747433018117316.post-72935317945759523592010-08-12T21:19:57.662+05:002010-08-12T21:19:57.662+05:00The way I see it, though, we're NEVER going to...The way I see it, though, we're NEVER going to win the moderate Muslims as long as we're invading and bombing the hell out of Muslim countries for no good reason. I agree that this idiocy does not help. But it would seem to me that the dispositive (is the right word? a word at all) factor would be the thousands of people we're constantly killing overseas.<br /><br />In other words, the O-Man is more to blame than the rednecks standing in the parking lots with the anti-mosque sins for potentially radicalizing moderate Muslims.<br /><br />It's amazing how far the pendulum has swung, though. I grew up in the High PC Era in the US. You know: the US in which 25% of female college students got raped before graduating. In which when my 70-year-old immigrant grandmother got beaten and robbed in Brooklyn before dawn coming home from cleaning offices in Manhattan, she deserved it cuz she was an oppressor with White race guilt, etc. etc. <br /><br />That was foul stuff, but now it's hard to imagine that that US ever existed. (Maybe it still exists on campuses or something, I don't know.) The slate has been wiped clean.<br /><br />The point is that the US seems to have a massive tendency NOT to find a reasonable mean. This is not intrinsic to humanity. I've long lived in a foreign country in which a sort of stupefied, stoical emotional equanimity has been the norm for the last thousand years or so.<br /><br />I fully expect that in no more than a couple of years, mainstream politicians in the US will seriously be talking about interring Muslims.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3081747433018117316.post-25317460488727373602010-08-12T05:30:45.986+05:002010-08-12T05:30:45.986+05:00What Hitch doesn't mention is that the whole d...What Hitch doesn't mention is that the whole damn thing puts both of us in the awkward position of agreeing with the idiots, but for vastly different reasons. I suspect that, like myself, Hitch would be perfectly content not to see the construction of ANY new religious buildings anywhere in the States - with the proviso, mind, that other, secular multicultural centers filled the badly-needed role of peacemakers, and that equal numbers of lives saved would result.<br /><br />But, as he so rightly points out, to oppose the Cordoba House while liberally supporting other monotheisms is the worst kind of cultural idiocy.<br /><br />The question those asinine infotainment actors SHOULD be asking is "when did we become a nation of such frigging no-nothing, thin-skinned namsy-panies?!"Gaithnoreply@blogger.com