If only hypocrisy smelled like flowers...

[ebonlock]

This post by TBogg is a must read, he eviscerates Michelle Malkin's latest spewing wherein she equates herself to a "lion" and Cindy Sheehan and Sally Fields to a "lamb". It's both infuriating and heartbreaking. My favorite commenter replies thusly:

For all of Michelle's boasting of being a lion mother, hers is nothing but posturing and false bravado.

There is nothing brave about firing a pistol at a poster of Osama bin Laden on the anniversary of 9/11 or wearing a t-shirt that reads "I Will Not Submit" in the safe confines of her Maryland suburban community.

What Michelle Malkin does not get is that dealing with the problem of jihadist terrorism requires nuanced responses. Bombing people in Iraq or Afghanistan might satisfy one's need for revenge for 9/11 or prejudice against Muslims, but it does nothing to solve the problem we face. [ed. note: indeed it has made the problem worse by several orders of magnitude]

This war will ultimately not be won by the United States military but by an emerging moderate Muslim majority that accepts tolerance and pluralism. In order to do that, we must reach out to them and show them that they have a stake in living in peaceful coexistence with us. And this is something that the Michelle Malkins of the world just seem incapable of understanding.

Tommykey

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[vimeslady.livejournal.com]

Bombing people in Iraq or Afghanistan might satisfy one's need for revenge for 9/11 or prejudice against Muslims, but it does nothing to solve the problem we face. This war will ultimately not be won by the United States military but by an emerging moderate Muslim majority that accepts tolerance and pluralism. In order to do that, we must reach out to them and show them that they have a stake in living in peaceful coexistence with us.

Do you have a link or a source for that quote that I could have? I'd really like to post it in my Journal.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Sure thing the direct link to the comment is here:
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tbogg/3155809238806528569/#108713

And the commenter has his own blog here:
http://www.anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com/

[vimeslady.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the quote and the information, which is now in my journal as well.

Rather unexpectedly, following the links ultimately resulted in me buying a copy of The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.

[h0h0.livejournal.com]

"If only hypocrisy smelled like flowers..."
...we'd be choking on our own vomit.

Our country is going silently to hell. :( I feel helpless in this political climate.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Our country is going silently to hell. :( I feel helpless in this political climate.

That's just how they want you to feel, if you give up and throw your hands into the air they win. Even if all you can do is talk to others and try to bring them around before the next election that's something. You just can't let yourself give up.