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Originally posted by ironweed
And are ye sayin' I'm after twistin' your words, boyo? This is the Politics Board and twisting is the new spin. Plus I reject the conventional wisdom that says only neocons can be glib, insincere and ill-informed when talking about politics.
But. We are in agreement about the putting money where mouth is part. And with regard to participating in other peoples' wars, a question: Abraham Lincoln Brigade: imbeciles?
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My apologies. You know me. I never read the updates in the Rule Book.
There's a fuzzy border between taking a righteous moral stance and doing something because you "need to have a cause." I've known so many professional protesters, and the majority struck me as needy types. Like the hyper-religious, they wanted direction. I can't respect that. My feeling was, the Corrie was of that ilk. There's a point where "true believer" gives way to "deranged and unthinking zealot." If we accept the position that one's certiainty of rightness of a thing makes the doing of it, no matter how wrongheaded or stupid it might be, valid and worthy of praise, then why not applaud suicide bombers? A zealot's a zealot, right?
