janelle
07-27-2005, 11:37 AM
July 26, 2005 | 7:29 p.m. ET
Moral relativity in the age of terror (Joe Scarborough)
The American and European Left spent the better part of a century preaching moral relativity between U.S. democracy and Soviet totalitarianism. But thanks to the Internet, the most embarrassing quotes uttered by Communist sympathizers in media, government, and Hollywood from 1917 to 1989 can be found.
Funny how opinions changed after the USSR fell in 1991 and we learned the great workers' paradise killed 30 million of its own people — give or take 10 million souls.
Moral relativity in that ideological conflict ended as quickly as the Wall fell.
Today, many of the same organizations who attacked America during its war against communism are once again preaching moral relativity. But this time, our twilight battle is against terrorists.
In its recently released report "In Cold Blood," the human rights organization Amnesty International refused to call terrorists blowing up women and children in Iraq by their real name. Instead they are identified simply as "armed groups."
And while criticizing these armed groups, Amnesty goes out of its way to blast U.S. and allied forces in Iraq by saying that Americans "have themselves committed grave violations, including killings of civilians and torture of prisoners."
These charges are obscene on their face.
American troops do not grab civilians off the street, shove a video camera in their face, and carve off their head with a knife.
American troops do not detonate bombs in the middle of a group of children collecting candy.
American troops do not set out to blow up grandmothers in open-air markets.
And American troops do not have as their singular goal the creation of a civil war in Iraq. Yet these terrorists have stated time and again that civil war is their goal in Iraq.
What is so disgusting about all of this is the fact that Amnesty International is well aware of these facts. And yet, they continue preaching moral ambiguity between troops handing candy out to children and terrorists blowing up those same children.
One builds up, the other tears down; One preaches democracy, one calls for terror; One teaches, one kills.
And yet Amnesty is so blinded of their hatred of America and its president that they can no longer tell right from wrong.
Moral relativity in the age of terror (Joe Scarborough)
The American and European Left spent the better part of a century preaching moral relativity between U.S. democracy and Soviet totalitarianism. But thanks to the Internet, the most embarrassing quotes uttered by Communist sympathizers in media, government, and Hollywood from 1917 to 1989 can be found.
Funny how opinions changed after the USSR fell in 1991 and we learned the great workers' paradise killed 30 million of its own people — give or take 10 million souls.
Moral relativity in that ideological conflict ended as quickly as the Wall fell.
Today, many of the same organizations who attacked America during its war against communism are once again preaching moral relativity. But this time, our twilight battle is against terrorists.
In its recently released report "In Cold Blood," the human rights organization Amnesty International refused to call terrorists blowing up women and children in Iraq by their real name. Instead they are identified simply as "armed groups."
And while criticizing these armed groups, Amnesty goes out of its way to blast U.S. and allied forces in Iraq by saying that Americans "have themselves committed grave violations, including killings of civilians and torture of prisoners."
These charges are obscene on their face.
American troops do not grab civilians off the street, shove a video camera in their face, and carve off their head with a knife.
American troops do not detonate bombs in the middle of a group of children collecting candy.
American troops do not set out to blow up grandmothers in open-air markets.
And American troops do not have as their singular goal the creation of a civil war in Iraq. Yet these terrorists have stated time and again that civil war is their goal in Iraq.
What is so disgusting about all of this is the fact that Amnesty International is well aware of these facts. And yet, they continue preaching moral ambiguity between troops handing candy out to children and terrorists blowing up those same children.
One builds up, the other tears down; One preaches democracy, one calls for terror; One teaches, one kills.
And yet Amnesty is so blinded of their hatred of America and its president that they can no longer tell right from wrong.