Multicultural Masochism - Christopher Hitchens actually making sense!!!

[MrsSmith]

Multicultural Masochism

http://www.slate.com/id/2236442/
The "war on terrorism" didn't cause the Fort Hood shootings.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at 1:37 PM ET


  It's both amusing and educational to observe a consensus when it suddenly starts to give way at all points without yielding an inch. A couple of weeks ago, the consoling view was that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a man more to be pitied than feared, a full-blown officer in the U.S. armed forces who was too shaken up by the stories of returned veterans to be able to function properly, and a physician too stressed-out to bear in mind that there was such a thing as a Hippocratic oath. Why, even the FBI had interpreted his e-mails to Anwar al-Awlaki as quite "consistent with research being conducted by Maj. Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center."

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For a start, did Hasan or Muhammad ever say what "killing" of which "Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan" they had in mind? There isn't a day goes by without the brutal slaughter of Muslims in both countries by al-Qaida or the Taliban. And that's not just because most (though not all) civilians in both countries happen to be of the Islamic faith. The terrorists do not pause before deliberately blowing up the mosques and religious processions of those whose Muslim beliefs they deem insufficiently devout. Most of those now being tortured and raped and executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran are Muslim. All the women being scarred with acid and threatened with murder for the crime of going to school in Pakistan are Muslim. Many of those killed in London, Madrid, and New York were Muslim, and almost all the victims callously destroyed in similar atrocities in Istanbul, Cairo, Casablanca, and Algiers in the recent past were Muslim, too. It takes a true intellectual to survey this appalling picture and to say, as Wright does, that we invite attacks on our off-duty soldiers because "the hawkish war-on-terrorism strategy—a global anti-jihad that creates nonstop imagery of Americans killing Muslims—is so dubious." Dubious? The only thing dubious here is his command of language. When did the U.S. Army ever do what the jihadists do every day: deliberately murder Muslim civilians and brag on video about the fact? For shame. The slippery slope—actually the slimy slope—is the one down which Wright is skidding.

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    I agree with almost the entire column!     

[jinxmchue]

Did he put down the booze long enough to form a coherent thought, or what?

[NHSparky]

He's not right very often, but when he is, he's nails.  Case in point, his book "No One Left To Lie To."

[jinxmchue]

He's not right very often, but when he is, he's nails.  Case in point, his book "No One Left To Lie To."

Yeah, that's like saying a broken clock is right as nails twice a day.  There's 86,400 seconds in a day and the broken clock is right for 2 seconds.  That's really not very good, nails or not.