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2004-03-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

A Modest Proposal to End the War on Terrorism

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Posted by tipper 2004-03-26 10:43:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hey? It's a start!

Posted by Tom Swift 2004-03-26 10:54:45 AM|| 2004-03-26 10:54:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "may not be enough to disillusion the many apologists for terrorism in the West, but it certainly will stop them from attacking the United States for its failure to pursue a more conciliatory path."

now who's being naive?

Posted by Frank G 2004-03-26 10:56:32 AM|| 2004-03-26 10:56:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Inviting Kerry to the White House for a joint meeting is fine but to impose your solution on both Bush and Kerry is a little of an overshoot.

Anyway, the entire concept here presupposes that terrorism apologists and appeasers would respond to a logical demonstration. If that supposition were true, they would already have responded. That is to say 'arguments not founded on reason are not swayed by reason'.

Posted by mhw 2004-03-26 11:16:17 AM|| 2004-03-26 11:16:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 mhw, thank you... that's exactly what I was going to say. They can't be reasoned with. You can't use logic to argue with them. The terrorists must be exterminated and the appeasers must be ignored. Have you ever tried to have a logical argument with one of these appeasers. You end up siting facts, figures and logical aruguments and they argue back with anecdotes.

The author here is working off of the faulty assumption that we are working in the same framework as the terrorists and the appeasers. We are not. We are logical and good. They are either or both illogical and evil.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-03-26 12:07:18 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-03-26 12:07:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't think Lee Harris' article was intended as a "proposal", but rather a thought experiment to show just how absurd the idea of negotiating with the jihadis is. He's saying that it doesn't matter what ridiculous lengths we go to (like the ones he "proposes" here) to accomodate them, the outcome simply cannot be anything other than complete futility; so fuck it.

At least that's my surmise, given the tone of his past articles.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-03-26 12:32:40 PM|| 2004-03-26 12:32:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Dave D.'s right. This is no more a real proposal than Johnathon Swift's "Modest Proposal" that the English take up the eating of Irish babies to cure the "Irish" problem. A fine intellectual tool to show the absurdity of reasoning with these morons.

Posted by Sgt.DT 2004-03-26 3:21:57 PM|| 2004-03-26 3:21:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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