“We should remind ourselves of the girl from Swat every time some “pragmatist” such as Fareed Zakaria or President Obama himself sounds the need for distinguishing “moderate” Islamists from their more extreme and primitive counterparts.”
And Camile Paglia actually had the NERVE to say today of Obama that “we have waited a long time for another president who dreams big.”
If the comment didn’t make me want to punch a wall, it would be hilarious.
Obama means the return of the kind of “pragmatism” that sells women and children up the f*ing river in exchange for an endless and useless exercise in “engagement” and “dialog” both code words for what is essentially busy work meant to look like something is being done while the status quo is carefully preserved for both sides. No real effort is made. No real risk is taken. Neither side has to worry about the other expecting any real change or even worse, forcing it.
We wouldn’t want to impose such “cultural” values such as the idea that it is good to treat women as equals and wrong to beat them like dogs in the street! It’s all so relative, really. (end sarcasm).
We had a President who dreamed big. Bush’s dream was to take down people like this and impose upon them an end to treating human beings, especially women, like crap. Whatever Bush’s failings, and there were many, this was a big dream and a great one. I miss him the most whenever I am reminded that we are back to the days of pragmatism in foreign policy and that ending the suffering of millions of people under tyrannical regimes is no longer as much of a priority as getting along with everyone and being able to have a good talk with our enemies.
