Old Weird Ward
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Sunday, April 04, 2004
- - - - - The Feminization of America - - - - -
Fred Reed is one of the more literate of the scribblers on the net. He's frequently humorous, occasionally pompous, and unapologetically politically incorrect.
And, when he's right, he's really right, and guaranteed to infuriate at least half the population.
Like this one:
(The link above may not work. The title of the column is "Driving Down Unknown Roads")
A case can be made that a feminized world would (or will) be preferable to a masculine. Perhaps. It is males who bomb cities and shoot people in Seven-Elevens. Yet the experiment has not been made. I suspect we will have the worst of both worlds: a nation in which men at the top engage in the usual wars and, a step below, women impose inutterable boredom.
- - - - - Some Arab Reaction to Fallujah Killings - - - - -
I'm an American. I have, over the past two days, watched the barbarians of Fallujah drag the bodies, and hang them from the bridge. The bodies of dead American civilians, who came to help the people of Iraq, to offer Iraq help, and hope for the future.
My soul has boiled with rage, with anger, with the lust for revenge. A uniquely American rage, for I know almost nothing of the men who died, save that they are Americans. They might be black, or white. They might be Hispanic brown, or Asian brown, or African black, or European white, or, Arab brown. They might be Buddhist, or Muslim, or Christian, or nothing religious at all. They are American, and therefore they are mine.
When Pandora opened the box, and let loose upon the world all the mischief and misery, what was the last thing out of the box was Hope.
An editorial in The Arab News, an English-language Arab newspaper gives some faint hope for the eventual civilization of the Arabic-speaking world. For when an Arab news organization is willing to openly speak out against Arab barbarians, there is indeed, Hope.
You might say, "Oh. Well, that's just an editorial!"
Yah.
An editorial, by Arabs, saying that the murder of American civilians, by Arabs, is a "senseless crime of great barbarity."
Yes, there is Hope. And Hope must be nurtured, encouraged, savored, and grown. And someday, perhaps, Iraq will be the second democracy in the Middle East, which would be a Good Thing.
Why would a second democracy in the Middle East be such a Good Thing?
Because, while the democracies of the world might disagree with each other, they don't make war on each other.
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