Comments on: What’s It All About, Alfie?

By: Kevin Fleming

Kevin Fleming — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:31:01 +0000

The near-absolute refusal to see what one does not want to see creates a dangerous world. This rose-colored glasses approach is no defense at all, it just obscures the truth.

To me, the entire split between left and right in the US runs along this edge. Does one admit this threat exists or not? Answer that, and all subsequent beliefs can be readily predicted.

But how do you wake people up, except by repeated violence? And what if not even then? Is this how some Jews felt in Germany (and the US) the late 1920s and early 1930s?

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:04:24 +0000

ìSomehow I think the border fence has absolutely nothing to do with security.î

The risk of terrorist infiltration from Mexico has been greatly exaggerated. I am all for building the fence—but not especially for that particular reason. The risk from Canada is admittedly far greater.

By: Imperial Valley Christian Center

Imperial Valley Christian Center — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:08:13 +0000

The real elephant in the room is not that the terrorist were moslems but that they were in Canada. Let’s see
- Canada 3,145 mile border with the U.S.
- Mexico 2000 mile border.
Yet the only country that needs a border fence is Mexico. Somehow I think the border fence has absolutely nothing to do with security.

Greg Marquez

By: MarkD

MarkD — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:17:45 +0000

The MSM still wonders why their circulation is declining. President Bush the first lied to me and it cost him my vote. The NY Times deceives, and I likewise will have nothing to do with them.

It’s self preservation.

By: jedrury

jedrury — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:42:32 +0000

Jamie – wonderful post.

By: Jamie Irons

Jamie Irons — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:58:12 +0000

Roger,

Your piece and Mr. McCarthy’s do an excellent job of pointing out this seeming anomaly.

To make a chemical analogy, I think one’s coming to understand what we’re up against, so that denial and group hugs become a thing of the past, requires that one get over a sort of hill analogous to the “activation energy” in a chemical reaction. Something just has to push you up and over, and once you’re there, you stay there — you are forever changed.

Just after 9/11 there was a very brief interval (to me it seemed to last only a day or two) where virtually everyone seemed to have made this transition — even the French!

But only a minority in this country (I would guess about 20% of the population, really remained on our side of the hill.

Jamie Irons