The day after the shootings in southern Israel, the same area was subjected to a day-long rocket barrage from Gaza. Multiple injuries and building destruction. While Palestinians themselves are pleased, the operation's hallmarks would seem to merit investigation into a possible Egyptian military role.
Consider the foregoing in the broader context that includes the Assad regime shooting 20 more people - and torturing high school students it has arrested for scrawling graffiti on public walls - as well as Iran's sentencing of those two American hikers - one of whom had gone through Berkeley's "peace studies"program - and it becomes clear that the swirl of events in the Islamic world has sidelined the MEC regime every bit as much as the economic chaos in Europe and the U.S.
One can still find Kool-Aid guzzlers who fall back on the "excellent-minds-are-on-thecase" rejoinder when presented with the full scope of present developments. They are fewer in number every day, though. Most of us realize that there are no grownups, nobody who knows the first thing about actual reality, steering our ship of state.
This is the core danger of leftism. Its tenets are based not in real observation of how human beings behave and historical patterns of behavior among nation-states, but abstract constructs, principally some kind of "fairness" that has never existed in real life. So while preoccupying itself with the pursuit of its fantasies, bad people get busy realizing their aims, and good people lose their houses to rockets and stock market collapses.
What would it really and truly take to bring about an atmosphere in our society in which such notions as "peace," "diversity," "clean energy" and an "international community" were universally deemed laughable and marginal? We must concede that it sounds Herculean, but is it impossible?
We must hope not, because we are squandering our collective human capital and pretty much every other resource acting as if there was something to these concepts while the real world burns to the ground.
It's late in the day.
Have you had your blood pressure checked lately? Your sense of urgency, like a fly on shit don't fly with me. Sorry, don't trust your get it done yesterday attitude. Pubs have only themselves to blame for Obama's election and of course you have been bitching incessantly since before Day 1 which was only 2 years, 7 months ago.
ReplyDeleteNo argument that Pubs have only themselves to blame for the MEC's election, but that is an netirely different matter from whether that has been a good thing and whether he needs to be thwarted in everything he does.
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