Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Good Logic

I just read the most amazing op-ed in the today's Boston Herald by Jules Crittenden. One paragraph in particular asks just the right questions:

But enough about me.Some questions for you: Do you actually think our own president is a greater menace to world peace and stability than our opponents would be with nuclear weapons?Are we to accept the word of tyrants that they were well-intentioned and not engaged in weapons programs when all the evidence has convinced our leaders and intelligence agencies that they are? Has history given us any indication that sanctions without a credible threat will have an effect? Even among our own allies, we’ve found nations that tout humanitarian action and seek to avert war, while cynically pursuing corrupt financial arrangements with the same tyrants. Do you believe it is acceptable to have nations of demonstrated murderous intent in a position to control large portions of the world’s strategic resources? Tinpot dictators busy killing their own people can become brass-hat dictators and start killing other people. If we were to walk away from all of this, do you believe they would leave us alone?


It's question like these that have helped me win over half way to moonbathood people to a more realistic view of the war with Islam.

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