This is a great article:
When speaking about crime and culpability (punishment is not an option), left-liberals like Jolie use the passive voice. Crimes are caused, not committed. Why, then, do Africans butcher, mutilate and rape their compatriots with clockwork predictability? Why do grown, Sierra Leonenean men hack off the arms of little Sierra Leonenean girls and rape them to shreds? Why is this repeated in Uganda, Sudan, the Congo, Rwanda, Somalia – you name them?
Jolie offers a tautology: It's "from the violence" – "they had their limbs cut off from the violence." Or if you find this redundancy meaningless, she whips another bunny from her hat: blame "drugs, perhaps."
Like Idi Amin, and the Prophet of Peace before him, Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, justifies his 20-plus years of senseless slaughter with reference to a vision from God. Like the Janjaweed militia of Sudan, this thug's victims are primarily Christians and other non-Muslims.
2006-06-23
03:55:47
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Note to Jolie: One doesn't need a multiple regression analysis to deduce that, besides endemic, age-old tribal strife, Islam contributes more to the equation of violence in Africa than, say, lack of education. The latter makes for resignation; the former for extreme agitation.
When it comes to Western inaction or American stinginess (which Jolie codifies as "the broader picture"), our iconic brainiac is quick to recognize both evil and linear causality: "We have – we colonized them," she stammers. By the way, unscripted, the woman is incoherent; a scrambler of syntax. Consider this, vis-à-vis Iraq – it tumbled from her deformed mouth:
"[I]t's – it's done. It's – we're there. You start to see – the more times I have been to Washington, the more times you talk to somebody about, we have got to get money for AIDS orphans, or we have to get money for – whether it be any kind of response to any tragedy, often, the answer is, well, we're at – we are at war right now.
2006-06-23
03:57:35 ·
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A lot of money's going to war right now. We don't have – so – so, you start to look at it in a different way."
Where was I? Oh, the colonization canard. The only peace Africa has ever known has been during colonization. This is a fact – it by no means aims to justify or recommend colonialism. As historian Keith Windschuttle has noted, pseudo-scholars such as Edward Said and legions of liberal intellectuals have made careers out of "blaming Western imperialism for problems that were endemic to many societies both before and after their experiences as European colonies."
Half a century hence, Jolie would do well to remember that the ideas of human rights – the dignity of the individual and the respect for diversity – are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. If not for Africa's encounter with the West, these concepts would still be as alien there as Jolie is.
Link to the whole article: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50750
2006-06-23
03:58:19 ·
update #2
Vous n'êtes pas plus futé que moi. Vous êtes un tête de merde
2006-06-23
04:02:59 ·
update #3
I love asking these questions because it is quite informative, amusing, and entertaining to see the feeble liberal mind make excuses and not address the subject being raised. It is fun to shine the light on the demented nature of excuse makers.
2006-06-23
04:05:47 ·
update #4