Speaking Out for the USA

If CNN really wanted to show that it valued transparency in its news approach, it should have urged the appropriate officials/bureaucrats to release the tape of Eason Jordan's remarks concerning the targeting of journalists by the American military. It should have presented an aired review of these rumors and presented the facts that could be produced to support these allegations. They could have produced a great news story even if it ended up outing one of their own. CNN would have gained respect and viewership for their courage and commitment to the truth. Instead they chose the most opaque and cowardly route. Is it any wonder there audience in the US has plummeted? Why do these behemoth organizations always choose wrongly?

When you think about the recent statements made about Iraq or about the Bush administration by Senators Ted Kennedy , JF Kerry. or Barbara Boxer or the foolhardy pronouncements of Michael Moore concerning the legitimacy of the "insurgents" (being compared to the Minutemen of our Revolutionary War period), you can only shake your head and think, "What is wrong with these people?", "What happened to integrity, to honesty, to love of justice and freedom (and I don't mean the platitudes thrown about in order to rationalize idiocy)?" Why aren't they unabashedly cheering on the Iraqi people?

I used to really like most of the Democrats; in fact, if I had to make a choice politically, the Democrats were always the "lesser of two evils", compared with those selfish, righteous, racist, religious nuts of the Republican party. The true goodness I sought was usually not represented or to be found in this world and, if it was, I still would not vote for that person or party as it would just ensure that the evil Republicans would win out. And that would be the worse thing ever. My thinking was something like this: Better sacrifice the unrealizable promise of heaven just to hold the gates of Hell closed a little bit longer -- and perhaps, over time, these Hell gates will be locked shut hard enough to let heaven on Earth shine forth.

Now, after three post-9/11 years and countless reassessments of my values, my life, my core beliefs I have evolved into a true Conservative: I slowly realized that while Liberalism sounds on the surface so great, so high minded and lovely, its implementation usually brings the very opposite results than those sought. While Peace sounds like a great goal -- and it is -- if pacifism is the method promoted to achieve it without considering the nature of your adversary, it usually leads to tyranny, massive suffering and death. Using brutishness in the name of justice does not make one a brute; it makes one a reluctant but realistic warrior. Not fighting Evil with all the tools available is Evil -- unless the end result is by far worse than that which the Evil doers want. To my way of thinking True, Primordial Evil is the creation of suffering for the sheer pleasure of its creation -- Evil people love to see others suffer; they get a deep pleasure out of it. (Taliban society was a fully fleshed-out manifestation of this. Having everyone suffering for Allah was their ultimate goal.) Secondary Evil is turning a blind eye to this True Primordial Evil. While Good people might fight Evil with massive violence and even enjoy the beating of their foe, they do so only reluctanctly. They want it over as quickly as possible. They don't truly enjoy the fight. They want to end suffering truly and as quickly as possible.

The Democrats and Liberals today, on balance, seem to hate George Bush more than people who saw off other people's heads or use disabled people to blow themselves up in a group of innocents. Unbelievable -- but true! They just don't care that their words may help the truly Evil ;as long as it is their right, it is okay. But just because you have the right or freedom to do something doesn't mean you should. One must ask if one should do something or say something, whether it serves the Good or the Evil. When you have to make excuses to support that which you know in your heart is helping Evil, you are succumbing to that Evil even if you clothe your behavior in words that sound like the Good. Unfortunately, the Liberals of today have become the handmaidens of the True Evil we fight. How else to explain their reluctance to celebrate the Iraqi people's voting victory?

Well after all of the dire predictions from enemies of democracy both in the US and in the Global Terror Village, the Iraqis are having the first of hopefully many occassions for joy and hope. The naysayers are out in force -- in fact, I just heard Susan Estrich on Fox make a fool of herself again -- but the voters in Iraq speak so much more loudly with their courageous actions. The fools whine and moan and lament. And the people go out and vote and smile and cry from joy. That says it all for me.

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See the essay by Greg Dejerejian and go to Instapundit for a good set of links and comments about this abominable human being who someway in God's name, is a Professor at the University of CO at Boulder. This man epitomizes what is wrong with Leftist American culture today.

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Well, I finally have the energy to start writing again. I came down with the flu and just got floored. Oh well, life's little challenges.

Although I have been out of the loop for the past week, I have been able to follow the Condi Rice hearings somewhat and if anyone can feel good being a Demoncrat after seeing how this pioneering and brilliant woman has been treated with such scorn by the likes of Kennedy and Boxer -- and that joke, run-away-from-DC-Dayton -- is beyond me. I guess any bad behavior would be approved simply because one is angry at a Republican. Just disgraceful. No other description for it. At AnkleBitingPundits.com, they 'predicted' that Boxer was going into fundraising mode and they were on the mark. More at Drudge.

Could you imagine what would happen to the Republicans if they did this to a black, female Democrat? The press would have material for months.