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发帖数: 29846 | 1 The Video Didn’t Do It
Sep 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 02 • By LEE SMITH
It was bad enough, two years ago, that Defense Secretary Robert Gates called
fringe Florida pastor Terry Jones to ask him not to burn copies of the
Koran, or last week, that chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey
took his turn to call Jones to ask him to stop publicizing a YouTube video,
The Innocence of Muslims. But then on Friday, White House spokesman Jay
Carney told the world that the violent protests in Cairo and Benghazi
and elsewhere were a “response not to United States policy, and not
obviously the administration or the American people,” but were “in
response to a video, a film we have judged to be reprehensible and
disgusting.” Carney repeated the point for emphasis: “This is not a case
of protests directed at the United States at large or at U.S. policy, but in
response to a video that is offensive to Muslims.”
Carney’s comments lie outside the range of plausible spin, even by Obama
administration standards, and if his bosses believe them—as we fear they do
—are simply delusional. But they are not without consequence. Nor are Gates
’s and Dempsey’s phone calls. They all send the message to America’s
enemies that if you kill our diplomats and lay siege to the our embassies,
the first move the American government will make is to denounce . &#
8201;. . Americans. Our leaders apparently believe that the way
to protect Americans from extremists and terrorists abroad is to tell other
Americans to shut up.
What’s next? Where does it go from here? There are more than 300 million
ways in which Americans expressing themselves might give offense to those
who make it their business to be offended. Maybe it’s some other film,
maybe it’s a book or even just a tossed-off phrase that our enemies might
seize on to galvanize support for their causes. Is the White House going to
put every American crank on speed-dial so it can tell them to shut up
whenever a mob gathers outside a U.S. embassy or consulate?
It’s worth noting that virtually every description in our media of the
movie that is supposed to have touched off the protests was attended by
various aesthetic qualifiers—laughable, crude, amateurish—as if the mobs
and their organizers were motivated by considerations of artistic craft. Let
’s recall that similar murderous campaigns of terror were waged to protest
Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, at the direction of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini. Would the editorial boards and newsrooms of our leading media
debate the merits of White House officials warning prestige novelists to
keep their mouths shut lest they anger extremists?
The Constitution was not written on behalf of poets and philosophers and
film producers but to enshrine the rights of all citizens. Since 9/11 and
our ensuing engagements in the Middle East, there have been appropriate
occasions during which the American people have debated how the so-called
clash of civilizations might be ameliorated. This is not one of those
occasions.
To debate the right of an American to criticize religion does not indicate
sophisticated sensitivity to the feelings of others but a willingness to
turn tail and abandon our principles at the first sign of a fight. And to
take seriously the notion that all those riots and attacks are about a video
, not about American principles and power and policy, is silly.
What we have seen unfold in the Middle East over the last week is what
distinguishes the region’s societies from our own. The protests in Cairo
and Benghazi were not really about the film, the preacher, or Muslim
sensitivities. They were an exercise in raw power politics, partly aimed at
intramural rivals in the Arab political sphere, but mainly against the
United States.
If the reaction of U.S. officials in the face of such an assault is to “
condemn . . . efforts by misguided individuals to
hurt the religious feelings of Muslims” (the initial response of the U.S.
embassy in Cairo) and to try to silence individual citizens, there is good
reason for the terrorists to believe that, with more acts of terror, they
will also change American policies. The unpleasant fact is that the Obama
administration has encouraged our adversaries to keep at it.
President Obama believed that to maintain “credibility with the Arab states
,” as he once told a group of Jewish leaders, he had to put some daylight
between ourselves and Israel. His administration sought desperately to “
engage” Iran and Syria, two state sponsors of terror that have been killing
Americans for decades. The same Joint Chiefs chairman who told journalists
in London that he doesn’t want to be “complicit” in any Israeli strike on
Iran’s nuclear facilities now advises an American citizen to stop
alienating Muslim mobs.
A president who began his tenure by going to Cairo to say he considered it
his “responsibility as president of the United States to fight against
negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear” should not be surprised
that the U.S. embassy in Cairo tweets similar apologetics while it is under
siege.
It would be nice to have an American administration that stood up for
America, for its people and its principles. It would also make the world far
less dangerous for Americans—and for decent people of all faiths. | f*********g
发帖数: 1637 | 2 Always junkie right winger post, you cant even come out a main stream GOP
author. Too pity.
In his log, to question "What is your 2012 election prediction? ", 70% of
readers said Romny will win AND GOP will win in House AND Senate. You must
be one of them for sure that are just self entertaining.
called
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: The Video Didn’t Do It
: Sep 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 02 • By LEE SMITH
: It was bad enough, two years ago, that Defense Secretary Robert Gates called
: fringe Florida pastor Terry Jones to ask him not to burn copies of the
: Koran, or last week, that chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey
: took his turn to call Jones to ask him to stop publicizing a YouTube video,
: The Innocence of Muslims. But then on Friday, White House spokesman Jay
: Carney told the world that the violent protests in Cairo and Benghazi
: and elsewhere were a “response not to United States policy, and not
: obviously the administration or the American people,” but were “in
| l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 3 Too pity??? 哈哈哈哈, 笑死我了. 英文4级没过吧.还是和老黑混的太久所以英文都
不会说了? 估计又一个F2.
of
must
【在 f*********g 的大作中提到】
: Always junkie right winger post, you cant even come out a main stream GOP
: author. Too pity.
: In his log, to question "What is your 2012 election prediction? ", 70% of
: readers said Romny will win AND GOP will win in House AND Senate. You must
: be one of them for sure that are just self entertaining.
:
: called
: ,
| f*********g
发帖数: 1637 | 4 Ignorant and Rumor Maker #1 in usanews, have you heard of "Too Pity Too
Profane", you have reached status of Gross Profane. | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 5 哈哈, 所以说你英文没有学好么, F2,拿首歌来说明?
就象有F2说wait on something,就是听歌听来的. 这种沙比英文就别来现了.
你查一下dictionary不好嘛? pity只能用作名词和动词,还too pity, 我看你说都不会
话了.
还好你还没拿soujiaboy的歌来问我是不是听说过.
【在 f*********g 的大作中提到】
: Ignorant and Rumor Maker #1 in usanews, have you heard of "Too Pity Too
: Profane", you have reached status of Gross Profane.
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