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2003-09-11 Home Front

James Lileks: "Two years in; the rest of our lives to go."

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Posted by Mike 2003-09-11 2:32:57 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lileks, like Steyn, is a treasure...

Posted by snellenr 2003-9-11 3:18:45 PM|| 2003-9-11 3:18:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 You want to see lashing out? Imagine Kabul and Mecca and Baghdad and Tehran on 9/14 crowned with mushroom clouds: thatâs lashing out.

He forgot Medina. And, yeah, did I ever imagine that by about 3pm 9/11/01! And quite a bit of 9/12, and 9/13, too.

Later, after the 14 month "rush" to war in Iraq, after the statue of Saddam came down, I'd see the Iraqi kids offering cups of water to soldiers and marines. Then, I was kinda glad that we didn't bomb Baghdad flat on general principal.

Posted by eLarson 2003-9-11 3:29:07 PM|| 2003-9-11 3:29:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Lileks just has the gift, the irrevrant Irish part of me calls it the blarney, the reverent Irish part of me thinks of it as the gift of the bard. Whatever you call it, I could read/listen to him for hours. He gave me something else, too... I'm childless at 50, so I'd long had no one's future to worry about (just an abstract...my country, humanity...). Now I can personify it...I worry about the Gnat's future and I'll do all I can to see she (and all the little ones she represents)has one.

Posted by Hodadenon 2003-9-11 3:52:13 PM|| 2003-9-11 3:52:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 There is one thing he forgets whne talking about the
"It is terrible BUT" people: their utter, total and abject hypocrisy. When they whinned about the Afghans or the Iraquis who would be killed was it out of concern for them? BS. Every day the Taliban were stoning women or letting them die without medical assistance, starving regions who resisted them, making bloodbaths of Hazaras like at Mazar el Sharif or at Bamiyan. Every day the people of Al Quaida were trying a new torture on hapless prisoners, like those Afghans soldiers who had their arms and legs sawn. Every day after the fall of Taliban has saved Afghan lives. Saddam has been gassing and murdering an average of AT LEAST one thousand people per month. At least as many children were dying each month during the "Oil for Palaces" program. Every month since its fall AT LEAST one thousand Iraquis have been saved from death, many of a horrendous death. At least as many children haven't died from lack of medical care.

But that is nothing for the Euros and the pacifists. It is nothing because both Afghans and Iraquis mean nothing for them. It is because both Afghan and Iraqui child are only tools to be used and discarded. It is all about their little, inflated egos. It is all about needing to scream "Death of America! It is all about oil" in order to feel themselves superior. It is all about the vision of America's destruction giving them a hard-on. Their hard-on, this is the noble goal they would gladly sacrifice every Afaghan or Iraqui child in world.

Posted by JFM 2003-9-11 4:33:55 PM|| 2003-9-11 4:33:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 After the memorial service at the National Cathedral Rev. Billy Graham was being interviewed, and when asked if he thought there was going to be war he replied "yes I think there is and we should use every weapon in our arsenal to win it."
The reporter then asked if he meant even WMDs and he replied yes.

Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-9-11 6:49:27 PM|| 2003-9-11 6:49:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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