Saturday, September 17, 2005
The Boston Globe, unsurprisingly, was not pleased with Governor Romney's statement concerning Mosques and visiting students, but what really gave me a laugh was this bit:
And how, pray, will they "show themselves" as such? By standing in the middle of Kenmore Square and announcing they're here to film Green Line trains and monitor security opperations for a follow-on strike? Hellooooo...Globe Editors, is anybody home?
That's the trouble with certain elements of the left that wear civil liberties like a fashion statement -- their reality interface doesn't function on all cylinders.
Fear not, brave citizens, the Globe brings us a Harvard scholar to explain that it's really past time to sit down and make common-cause with al Qaeda -- after all, they're just against "the occupation" among a few other very easily granted requests -- unmentioned in the piece is that one of the occupations that AQ is against is the Spanish occupation of Andalusia, but who's counting?
Proof in print of Orwell's statement that “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.”
Time to talk to Al Qaeda? by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Though dismissed widely, the best strategy for the United States may well be to acknowledge and address the collective reasons in which Al Qaeda anchors its acts of force...
Mr. Mohamedou is "associate director of the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research." I suppose when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Update: More on Mohamedou's piece at the The Weekly Standard (linked at Campus Watch):
In the end, Mohamedou says, "these 'terrorists' are de facto combatants, and justice . . . is what they are after." Which is the true source of bin Laden's strength. And the reason that "no leading Muslim intellectual or scholar has denounced him."
Not at Harvard, anyhow.
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"Neither side can defeat the other."
That's not strictly speaking true. Just from a strategic standpoint. We in the US lack the will to do so.
The Globe is really a full-fledged member of the Fifth Column. That was an apalling piece of propaganda (Mohamedou's op-ed). I wonder if the Globe published op-eds during WWII praising the Germans and the Japanese for being so "industrious and comitted." Would they have published op-eds suggesting that the Nazis had "legitimate grievances"?
Can private citizens bring charges against a newspaper for treason and sedition in wartime? I would dearly love to do that!
"We are not killing you to get something from you. We are killing you TO EXTERMINATE YOU." al-Qaeda public policy declaration, circa 2002
Globe? Make peace with THAT!
I choose to take them at their word!