[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Rescuing killers from justice

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Rescuing killers from justice
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1161792076.shtml


   Ralph Peters criticizes [1]right wing PC

     Whether the cry is "Free Mumia!" or "Close Guantanamo!" or "Bring
     the Troops Home Now!" the consistent purpose is to rescue killers
     from justice - no matter the cost to law-abiding citizens here or
     to the millions of Iraqis who truly desire peace.

     This situation was bad enough when
     save-the-cop-killers/pity-the-terrorists ideology only infected the
     left. But political correctness has insinuated itself so deeply
     into our collective thinking that even the chest-thumping Bush
     administration refused to take on Iraq's fanatical killers - with
     the result that Iraq is now frankly ungovernable.

     The administration ignored an ironclad rule of conflict in failed
     societies: A fraction of 1 percent of the population, armed and
     determined, can destroy a fragile state. If you are not willing to
     kill that fraction of a percent, the remaining 99-plus percent will
     suffer terror, massacre and chaos.

     Our weakness of will and wishful thinking made Iraq safe for our
     enemies. They can walk the streets unarmed. We can't...

     ...I wish the world were as innocent as intellectuals pretend. But
     we're far from the Peaceable Kingdom. If we're unwilling to behave
     ferociously toward terrorists and thugs, they'll behave with
     greater ferocity toward the innocent. That's a consistent equation
     in humanity's moral algebra.

     The core problem of the political correctness crippling our
     policies is that both the left's on-line commissars and Bush's
     brain trust (such as it is) are guilty of the same error: Safe in
     America, they insist that the world is as they wish it to be,
     rather than as it is. Such self-deception paves the paths to
     Auschwitz, Srebrenica and Balad.

     There are few platitudes more cringe-inducing than hearing yet
     another American political leader or general claim that "the only
     answer in Iraq is a political solution." That's just plain nonsense
     - it's reality-avoidance as a strategy. It may be too late for any
     good solution in Iraq, but political dialogue doesn't have a
     prayer.

References

   1. http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242006/news/columnists/terror_rules_streets_columnists_ralph_peters.htm