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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
 
Understanding Islamism...

Me, at no-treason.com:
The libertarian argument will be no less true when our grand-daughters are forced to wear burqas.


Monday, May 10, 2004
 
Oh, go flagellate yourself!

Sarah Fitz-Claridge lays it out with clarity at Setting The World To Rights:
Fortunately, not everyone has a weakness for wallowing in completely imaginary guilt. Go flagellate yourself if you must, Andrew, but leave America out of it.
I haven't said anything about this because it seems so amazingly small to me (and because I've been very busy). Idiot frat-boy pranks and tendentious hyperbole--like any of this is new. It's interesting to me in one respect only: The inability of soldiers on the ground to identify Iraqis as being equally human--and this is seemingly ubiquitious--is a profound statement about the leverage of deWesternized, deLiberalized American education. In important respects, the War on Terror is actually East v. East, a quarrel among racist, irrational identity groups, with the West being more a cipher than a particpant. This is what has to change.





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