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To: SE who wrote (40819)	10/1/2001 12:26:04 PM
From: Proton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Re: Feiglin's Comments Hmmm, what is there to complain about... Mixed metaphors ("Kings" as "wives")? Nah, too trivial to flame... Playing fast and loose with history (that "return knock-out blow" was delivered on Japan nearly four years after the attack on Pearl... after a long, bloody, three-continent war)? Eh, you can find selective historical amnesia on any college campus in the world... How about intense religious bigotry? Yeah, that's it! "Deviant daughters," indeed. We're going to consider advice from one whose contempt for our religion is so palpable? He fancies himself clever because he wants to foment Armegeddon between two religions he hates. Bomb mosques? Good grief. Would he like us to do this before or after the the Hajj? This article is particularly -- and offensively -- insidious, because it starts with valid premises, chief among which: accommodation with those who wish to obliterate you is rarely fruitful. Feiglin then runs with that premise all the way to ethnic cleansing (how does he plan on doing this "without killing anyone"?). They're all crawling out of the woodwork now: the hyperreligous wackos (e.g. Feiglin and Falwell); the Blame America First crowd (many of whom, like Susan Sontag, whine from the erstwhile safety of the U.S.); the accomodationists (you don't have to believe in irradiating Medina to see that countries like Iran and Syria are not going to be your pals and that Arafat's essence is unchanged); the profiteers (never mind the press reports of street sellers hawking pictures of the burning Towers; now we know that people are selling photos of the carnage at Ground Zero); the professional protesters. The smell of cordite? Fear on Wall Street? Desperate back-room negotiations in world capitals? It must be October! P. (not that I have an opinion, mind you...) p.s. I cannot condemn Feiglin for worrying about pogroms -- our Jewish siblings have suffered too much not to consider such possibilities. However, no one ought to believe that this country will accept ever-escalating attacks on it's citizenry without a shattering -- dare one say "cataclysmic" -- military response. That's why we pray for the success of President Bush's measured strategy.