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July 23, 2005
By Their Words They Shall Be Known
Mark Coffey at Decision '08 excels at the difficult but necessary task of surfing the blogs of the opposition. Hell, I can't even keep up with stellar blogs like Winds of Change or Austin Bay on a daily basis.
Mark recently found this gem in the miasma emanating from the Huffington Post--a screed by someone named Hooman Majd. Hooman is astonished we can't all see the GWOT is America's fault:
In agreeing with James Rubin, the former State Department spokesman, Tom [Friedman] writes that "after every major terrorist incident, the excuse makers come out to tell us why the terrorists acted. And these "excuse makers" are just one notch less despicable than the terrorists." Really? I'm sure on this site alone Jann Wenner, Deepak Chopra, myself, and a host of other writers appreciate knowing how utterly despicable you think they are. As do the British politicians George Galloway and Ken Livingstone, and newspaper editors the world over. So there's your start Tom, but if you need more names, next time you're in Cairo, Damascus, Jeddah or Karachi; bring back the local phone book with you. Since any one person picked out of those White Pages will be happy to explain to you why the terrorists acted (but not ispo facto that terror is acceptable: get it?), there's your partial list of the "excuse makers" in the Muslim world. The others don't have a phone.
Hmmm...Jann Wenner, Deepak Chopra, George Galloway, Ken Livingstone. Is this a parody piece? Gee, these guys might outdo Haig, Foch, Baldwin, and Chamberlain for utter ineptness. Maybe he could throw in Grace Slick and Ken Kesey?
And in spite of my sarcastic tone, this is valuable stuff: we must always keep up with the talking points of the appeasers and defeatists. There is great danger in truth-by-repetition.
Mark punches great big holes in Majd's little bleat. Go read it.
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