Yeah. I know. Some people will rise to the challenge. Just maybe, Dick Durbin will follow them. But who cares about him?
As to the courage vs. cowardice discussion, there was agreement from an unexpected source, who was working a tough crowd: (story indexed on Yahoo!)
>At Egypt's oldest and most venerable Islamic institution, the attacks were criticized, though in indirect terms.
`He who kills a person without necessity ... will never go to heaven,' Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi told worshippers at Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque. `It's not courage in any way to kill an innocent person, or to kill thousands of people, including men and women and children.'<
Sheik Tantawi said it better than I did. So did Billy Graham today. Unfortunately, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said about the same thing as O. Bin Laden, and Iraqi TV. Watching Falwell made me hurl. For all that he has wrapped himself in the flag, God, and country -- he is not an American in any spirit I know about.
If the US is going to lead a worldwide coalition to cut the nuts off those who support terrorism, we're gonna have to get self-critical, serious, and consistent. If we nuke the States that harbor terrorists, what are we going to do about groups that contribute to IRA bombings, or abortion-clinic bombings?
Could it be that Falwell finds common cause with Bin Laden? Or are their identical expressions of God-destroying-decadent-America just coincidence? |
