How come we are the only country in the world who has to be tolerant of everything? I don't know about you, but I'm getting real sick of all this tolerance BS along with 'root cause'. I mean when we go to other countries, such as Saudi Arabia we have to respect their customs. Our women have to hide their faces and bodies. So we have a female fighter pilot who is protecting Saudi Arabia and she cannot even drive a car. What the Saudis need is a good dose of Honor Harrington (for those not in the know, Honor Harrington is an heroine of a Science Fiction series by David Weber). But, when they come to our country, we have to be tolerant of their customs. Case in point, an Arab woman in Florida who wants to have her driver's license picture taken with her veil. She's suing. Hey lady, we cannot recognize you with the veil. Maybe if it were a mask like the Queen of Swords ( a quick vision of Tessie Santiago) it would be OK, but this is America. Back in your country you couldn't even drive a car. We do believe in freedom of religion, unlike your country of origin, but only if it doesn't violate our laws. Even the Mormons had to give up polygamy and it is no longer practiced in Utah (nudge nudge wink wink).
After 9/11 we were told not to believe all Mideasterners felt like the hijackers and not to vent our rage on them. And remember, Islam is a religion of peace. It sure is. With all the Mullahs and Imams crying 'Death to America' I believe it. Rest in peace. Anyway, I may have slept through this but I seem to have missed the blanket condemnation by the American Muslim community concerning 9/11.
Anyway, we've been very good as Americans usually are and the acts of vandalism and violence against out Mideastern 'friends' in this country were few and far between. We were tolerant. But as usual, tolerance is a one way street. With the Israeli response to the latest acts of terrorism it now seems open season on Jews, especially at that hotbed of tolerance in Berkeley, California.
Don't you get a big kick out of Arafat's buttboy James Zogby on the talk shows trying to defend the indefensible? These suicide bombers are acts of desperation. No Jimmy boy, they are acts of terrorism. Acts of desperation would be renouncing terrorism and actually negotiating in good faith rather than sending children (children!) out to blow themselves up and take innocent civilians with them. How would you like it if Israel were to play by your rules? Civilians are fair game. If so, they wouldn't have to send in soldiers they could just carpet bomb and civilians be damned. How would you like them apples Jimmy boy? And another thing. Don't you think the Muslims would get their shorts in a bunch if a bunch of Christians or Jews were to hole up in a mosque? Man the Norwegians would really be pissed off about that. And what about the French? Wouldn't that sour their cheese. The obligatory French joke courtesy of Jonah Goldberg. Why are there so many tree lined streets in Paris? So the Germans can march in the shade.
And what is it with all this 'root cause' crap? The Japanese had root cause. We had trade embargoes against them. To them this was bad. They attacked us. We didn't care about root cause. We nuked 'em. Hitler had root cause. He wanted to conquer all of Europe and to kill all the Jews. Just like with Arafat we kept appeasing him. I'm sorry Yasser old buddy, you are now on double secret probation (obscure Animal House reference). We didn't care about Hitler's root cause. We fought a war. We won. End of story. I don't care about the root cause of the assholes who killed 3000 people on 9/11. You declared war. We don't like you and do not give a crap about root cause. For you Arab apologists like James Zogby it is time for you to decide whether you are an American first or an Arab first. Arafat is a terrorist, Arafat always has been a terrorist, and Arafat always will be a terrorist. By the way, do you know how to tell when Arafat is lying? His lips move.
Posted by denny at April 10, 2002 10:33 PM