Tolerance has been one of the virtues of western civilization. But virtues can be carried to extremes that turn them into vices. Toleration of intolerance is a particularly dangerous vice to which western nations are succumbing, both within their own countries and internationally.
Double standards are being wrapped in the mantle of morality. The drive to extend Geneva convention protection to terrorists who are not covered under the Geneva convention is one of a number of dangerous self-indulgences by people who seem to think that being morally one-up is the ultimate and survival is secondary.
Senator Lindsey Graham's comment that we are going to win in our struggle with terrorists "because we are better" was all too typical of this mindset.
It would be hard to know which would be worse -- if he said it as just some offhand political rhetoric or whether he is really fatuous enough to believe it and irresponsible enough to gamble American lives rather than extract murderous secrets from captured cutthroats.
Thomas Sowell
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You know that tired cliche that if you do something one way or another that "the terrorists win", well in regards to the pusillanimous acquiescence of the easing up of GC standards and the universal application to non-uniformed combatants....the terrorists won
I couldnt have said it better myself. I have said for a long time that political correctness and "tollerance" inevitably has made our society weaker. We are beaten over the head with sensitivities (how ironic) that enable social problems. It's ok to critiscize some and not others and unfortunately it has carried into a pit of ignorance that looks more like a canyon. I doubt that we will ever see a change in popular culture or even in the most important subculture which the political stage has sadly become. Ladies and gentlemen THIS is the dumbing of America. Sometimes I think its us bloggers who care to speak out anymore.
Thomas Sowell is a cowtowing Uncle Tom who needs to take a day off from writing and actually go outside for once and get a gander of reality.
I'm sick of his motherfucking quotes!!!
So Warlike youre saying that Thomas Sowell isnt a real black man because of his politics?
Oh yeah, go tommy go!
Shobrawy you sound very conservative in this.
Thats because i hate extreme liberals
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