Every now and then I read something so incredibly stupid that I wonder how the person who wrote it is actually able to get dressed in the morning, not to mention function as a rational human being. Today was one of those days. I read the following letter in the letters section of today's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation.
War has never in the history of humankind caused peace. The street definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result.
Like trying to make socialism (or peace) work.
War, at its best and only at horrendous cost, can cause temporary silence. Humanity must use those temporary silences to develop a new consciousness and commitment to peace, which is always an effect of self-honesty and love,. We must have a change of heart and a change of mind so fundamental and generalized that we experience the quest for true peace as an exciting new frontier.
Let us choose a frontier that leads directly to peace and not just one more temporary and violent means to an end.
HONEY JUDITH RUBIN
Marietta
The mature mind reels! Where do I begin? What can I say? So, we should have just given up and have allowed Hitler to conquer Europe and exterminate Jews and Gypsies and any other race that he figgered didn't belong on the planet? Golly Honey, we would have had peace, but would the cost have been worth it?
Or maybe we shouldn't have fought the Civil War. We would have had peace, but would have continued to have slavery. Is that your definition of peace?
So I guess we should just give up and convert to Islam and institute Sha'ria since that is what al Qaeda wants. Howza 'bout we invite them over here and talk it over? Let's discuss your 'new frontier' with them. By the way, I hope you will enjoy wearing a burqa. I hope you'll enjoy being little more than a slave since that is the role of women in the society that our enemies want to inflict on us. And I'm sure it won't bother you that your daughters will be sold to other men into arranged marriages. But, it won't matter because we'll have peace and by golly peace is the most important thing in the world.
The abject, I'm sorry I have to say it, stupidity of this person is frightening. She makes Jimmy Carter sound rational. There are people on this planet who want to destroy this nation and enslave all of us and she is talking about developing "a new consciousness and commitment to peace, which is always an effect of self-honesty and love". I do not have the slightest idea what that means. I know it really sounds sweet and noble, but when someone is threatening me or my family, I'm not interested in talking to him about how we must love each other, I'm thinking about how fast I can get to my gun to blow that sonuvabitch away. Jesus H. Christ! This person obviously went to a gummint school.
It's a crying shame that Honey wasn't on one of the hijacked planes on 9/11. I'm sure she could have said to the hijackers, "Let us choose a frontier that leads directly to peace and not just one more temporary and violent means to an end", and they would have dropped their boxcutters and everyone on the plane would have joined hands and started singing Kumbaya.
Reading idealistic bullshit like this makes me want to pound my head against the wall and scream at the top of my lungs, "What a fucking idiot!"
And, if you want to read an essay by someone who says this so much better than I, go read what Mrs. du Toit has to say about the 'peace at any price' idiots.
Someone needs to sit honey down and explain to her in words of one and two syllables, that a lot of good men died in wars to allow her to live in peace. The price of her peace, enslavement, is a price that I am not willing to pay. Yes, war is bad, but sometimes it is necessary. If there were no evil in this world, like Hitler, like communism (Ask the Eastern European states how they felt about the Cold War. They were not willing to pay the price of Honey's peace either), like slavery, like radical Islam, then Honey's "true peace as an exciting new frontier" would be realistic. As it is, people who think like that are dangerous.
Case in point: Jimmy Carter
Posted by denny at February 26, 2003 09:00 PM