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| Sowell on Mumbai, Appeasement and Us |
| 2008-12-10 |
| There are no concessions we can make that will buy off hate-filled terrorists. What they want — what they must have for their own self-respect, in a world where they suffer the humiliation of being visibly centuries behind the West in so many ways — is our being brought down in humiliation, including self-humiliation. Even killing us will not be enough, just as killing Jews was not enough for the Nazis, who first had to subject them to soul-scarring humiliations and dehumanization in their death camps. This kind of hatred may not be familiar to most Americans but what happened on 9/11 should give us a clue — and a warning. The people who flew those planes into the World Trade Center buildings could not have been bought off by any concessions, not even the hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending in bailout money today. They want our soul — and if they are willing to die and we are not, they will get it. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |