Thursday, March 23, 2006
Our Newest Op Ed
The Idiots and The Oddity (Liberals, Greek Action and History)
- By R.A. Hawkins
If liberals and pseudo-cons had written 'The Iliad' it would have gone like this: "Helen shacked up with Paris in his crib and Paris died." If they had written 'The Odyssey' it would have gone like this: "Homer kept running into other women and he got lost. His wife was worried. He got home, but it was sort of an accident." Anybody with a lick of sense knows there's a lot more to these two stories than that, and so it is also true with history, both recent and ancient. But demagogues don't have much use for the details. They are far more interested in extorting terror from the minds of the masses that don't know any better.
A good example of the difference between the left and the right can be found in the deafening silence surrounding the death of Milosevic. I ran across a great commentary on that where the writer was comparing European prisons to 'Club Guantanamo'. In the four years that Guantanamo has been operating as a holding camp there hasn't been a single death there. But that doesn't matter one bit to the demagogues. They are still carping about the horrors and the cruelty of Guantanamo. I haven't heard a peep out of the peeps on the left regarding the death of Milosevic. That's because they hate him. .....................
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- By R.A. Hawkins
If liberals and pseudo-cons had written 'The Iliad' it would have gone like this: "Helen shacked up with Paris in his crib and Paris died." If they had written 'The Odyssey' it would have gone like this: "Homer kept running into other women and he got lost. His wife was worried. He got home, but it was sort of an accident." Anybody with a lick of sense knows there's a lot more to these two stories than that, and so it is also true with history, both recent and ancient. But demagogues don't have much use for the details. They are far more interested in extorting terror from the minds of the masses that don't know any better.
A good example of the difference between the left and the right can be found in the deafening silence surrounding the death of Milosevic. I ran across a great commentary on that where the writer was comparing European prisons to 'Club Guantanamo'. In the four years that Guantanamo has been operating as a holding camp there hasn't been a single death there. But that doesn't matter one bit to the demagogues. They are still carping about the horrors and the cruelty of Guantanamo. I haven't heard a peep out of the peeps on the left regarding the death of Milosevic. That's because they hate him. .....................
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 3/23/2006 01:00:00 AM 
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