You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
There was a joke going around a year or three back about how the New York Times would announce the coming of the Trump and the Shout:
World to End Tomorrow
Women and Minorities Affected Most
Funny and satirical, right? No longer. Read the blurb from yesterday’s Nick Kristof:
With the fall of Saddam Hussein, an iron curtain of fundamentalism risks falling over Iraq, with grievous implications for girls and women.
Am I saying that women and proto-women don’t have it rough under Islamist regimes? Hardly. But what about gays, Jews, Christians, atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers, and that vast majority of decent Muslim men who don’t belong to the Islamist power structure?
Yeah, they all got it easy, Nicky — you suck-up.
Howell Raines is gone from the NYT, but that doesn’t mean the Op-Ed page hasn’t sunk to a level below parody.
There isn’t a liberal interest group out there that couldn’t find a laundry list of things to love about the overthrow of Saddam. “Women’s rights” groups should be first in line. Their silence or anti-war stance is just more proof that they have no principles or credibility. It’s all just anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Bushism in a feel good disguise.
Kristof is particularly loathsome in this piece. Is his point that random government sponsored rape and torture is more acceptable than rape and torture sanctioned by fundamentalist Islam? He just doesn’t get it. Sad.
Hey, we wouldn’t want the girls and women to forget how good they had it under Saddam, would we? After all, maybe they did get raped and tortured occasionally, but there _was_ order, wasn’t there? Aren’t stability and order the most important values? Wouldn’t NOW agree?