you be the judge ... "moral paralysis" is a term that was used to describe the inaction of France, England, et al in the 1930s as they watched idly while Hitler rearmed Germany and then started World War II.
[see Thomas Sowell's editorial of today at http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=270164338908710 for further details.]
Is America "morally paralyzed"??
2007-07-25 10:02:58 · 11 answers · asked by Spock (rhp) 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
YES!
I read that article this morning.
Good question!
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2007-07-25 10:05:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Are you implying that the U.S. should now invade Iran? Great idea! Why not have all of the Middle East hate you! And I'm sure you will handle such as invasion with all of the competence that you showed during the Iraq war--oops, I mean conflict, no, I mean mission accomplished. Maybe the world would be a better place if the U.S. stopped pretending it was the world's cop.
2007-07-25 10:10:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
pre-WWII wasn't moral paralysis
the resistance just took time to build (remember that it eventually did)
it took time for people to really understand what was going on (they didn't have the multiple channels of instant news media that we do now) and it took time to build military resistance (especially during a worldwide economic depression)
and you have to remember that the European people were still traumatized by the horrible 1st world war just 20 years earlier and were very reluctant for a repeat
I think, if anything, since 911 America has been morally rash. The Iraq war is a good example of this, we went it on our high-horse "knowing" what was right and what was good for Iraq and then we found we hadn't taken enough time to plan.
2007-07-25 10:09:36 · answer #3 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, Iran hasn't threatened anyone yet and it's not our job to be the police of the world. By the way, Thomas Sowell is a semi-literate cretin who needs to learn to proofread his articles. He said, "Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran and its international terrorist allies will be a worst threat than Hitler ever was." I hope I don't have to explain what atrocious grammar that is. You misspelled paralyzed too.
2007-07-25 10:16:09 · answer #4 · answered by ConcernedCitizen 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If that is morally paralized, then right now, we are far further than that. During the 1930's the world was suffering from a world-wide depression. If we are comparing ourselves now to the depression, then we have hit rock bottom.
2007-07-25 10:07:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, 150,000 of our troops have been over seas for 5 years fighting for us, we have half the country at home supporting them, the other half complaining, all while we try to stop Korea and Iran from blowing the world up with nukes. I'd say we're anything BUT morally paralized.
2007-07-25 10:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah but not how the article states....
It seems no one will DO something about how we are pissing away the American Century or pissed I should say... its seems like certain doom right now eh?
I mean Enron, Citibank, Merril Lynch, war for oil. the last 8 presidents... tho this last one makes Nixon look like a tree hugging liberal. Military Keynesianism, Debt, and continued borrowing...
the organization of people is the hard part... no one cares!
Someone told me today that global warming isn't real and she was serious... something about scientists saying that its like a pendulum... and its just Liberals trying to get into everyone's lives... naive...
TV and web "news" is dominated with Paris Hilton and other cheep whores with mountains of wealth and that's what people care about...
"WE NEED TO BE RID OF THESE IMMORAL GREEDY LIL KILLERS!" but they don't care.. complacent and compliant to the lulls of complacency...
Aspects of America are the Hilter and we're not doing anything about stopping ourselves from our own doom.
....and we will be rid or the burdens continuing immoralities the easy way or the hard way; in time.
2007-07-25 10:25:43 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We know that Iran is moving swiftly toward nuclear weapons
thomas sowell apparently has information that nobody else does...
2007-07-25 10:09:17 · answer #8 · answered by brian 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes we are paralyzed by political correctness
2007-07-25 10:08:10 · answer #9 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
yes
2007-07-25 10:09:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋