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| Oriana Fallaci Interview |
| 2005-06-23 |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #6 Had Mr. Clinton spent less time with voluptuous girls, had he made smarter use of the Oval Office, maybe September 11 would not have occurred. -Orianna Falacci in today's Opinion Journal I like this woman... Fallaci in OpJo |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-06-23 16:45 |
| #5 Oriana used to be very anti American back in the 80s and 90s (as was Salmon Rushdie). She rarely admits this and is rarely asked to comment on this. I think the change is do to accrueing knowledge of and familiarity with Islam (years of being under a death fatwa certainly changed Rushdie's mind). Either of these two cases would make a good story for a newspaper. However, it would require some modest ability to do research and perform critical thinking and the supply of journalists who can do this is pretty limited. |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-06-23 12:07 |
| #4 whatever. |
| Posted by: plebe 2005-06-23 11:46 |
| #3 Europe is doomed unless it stands up for itself, quickly. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-06-23 11:17 |
| #2 She fought Nazis in the Italian Resistance, so she knows them when she sees them... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2005-06-23 11:00 |
| #1 "You cannot survive if you do not know the past. We know why all the other civilizations have collapsed--from an excess of welfare, of richness, and from lack of morality, of spirituality." (She uses "welfare" here in the sense of well-being, so she is talking, really, of decadence.) "The moment you give up your principles, and your values . . . the moment you laugh at those principles, and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." Words to remember. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-06-23 10:45 |