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| The "E" Word |
| 2002-02-06 |
It was hard to swallow Reagan's Evil Empire appellation, too. When Osama and Saddam and Yasser and Mullah Fudlullah and all the others are doorknob dead, we'll all be anti-terrorists, just like Communism is languishing in the "dustbin of history" except on college campuses. The Taliban was going to kick our collective butts, the same people who gasped at Reagan's gauchery told us. Then we saw the pictures of the happy people of Kabul welcoming the Northern Alliance guys, the kids flying kites and the pretty girls at Mazar, out of their burqas. The same people told us that Saddam's Fourth Largest Army in the World was gonna kick our collective butts. Then we saw videos of those guys surrendering to helicopters and Italian cameramen. Do the Iraqis want to dump their Great Leader? Remember after the Gulf War, when our guys withdrew from Basra? Remember the people who left the hospitals to go with them, some with IVs still in their arms, because they did't want to go back to what they'd had? Post Modernism (not to be confused with the more popular Toasties and Raisin Bran) tells us that good and evil are relative concepts, that everything is shades of gray. Even if you accept that, it's pretty obvious that some grays are a lot darker than others. I'm with George. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |