Jim,
Can we get off the "anti-PC" rant. It's not PC to protect the rights of Americans. I know you want to be angry and lash out. I'm pissed off too, but the Afghani people are not the enemy. Hell, most of them don't even have running water. Every day is about surviving until tomorrow, NOT grand political aspirations. The Taliban is everyone's enemy (even their own people IMHO), and should go the way of the do-do. Bin Laden is the enemy, and should join the Taliban and do-do.
The day that it becomes undesirable to stand up for the Rights of American Citizens is the day that America officially dies. From your rhetoric it sounds like we should call for the crash cart. If you want to demonize the "media" or me or whomever as "politically correct" (which is the equivalent of "pinko" and "commie" in the Viet Nam era) go ahead. I've been called worse, and to my face. I am not, however, going to stand by and watch my country take on the mantle of racism and transform its mentality into that of the barbarians who attacked us.
It seems to me America is having trouble with "enemy identification" at this point. The enemy isn't easy to see, so we're lashing out in all directions at anything that even remotely LOOKS like it could be the enemy. In short, we're acting like scared animals. It's time to buck up and realize that the world is a lot more complicated than it is in the story books. The good guys don't always wear white hats, and the bad guys don't always wear a turban and a beard and pray toward Mecca. |
