... and today Lileks gives Salam Pax a long-deserved bitch-slapping.
You must read the whole thing, though. Lileks takes on the Michael Jackson nonsense - how it stole the headlines from the Whitehall speech:
Nightline, supposedly the Thinking Person’s Late Night Show, was split about whether a repudiation of 50 years of foreign policy was slightly more important than the arrest of a washed-up, crotch-grabbing yee-hee! squeaking nutball who was probably the horrid pedophile everyone already thought he was.
But it's when he takes on the protests, and the smugness of Salam Pax, that Lileks lets loose. I love when Lileks goes into screed-mode.
It’s going to take another attack to convince the fence-sitters: I hear this all the time. I don’t think that’s the case. I think the next attack on American soil will jolt whose who’ve moved on, who’ve forgotten the aching, clammy dread we all felt after 9/11. But others will believe that we brought it on ourselves. You already read it around the web – the bombings in Turkey were a response to Britain’s assistance for toppling Saddam; what did we expect? In other words: if we fight back, we get what we deserve. If we do not fight back, and we are attacked again, you can blame it on the crimes for which we have not yet sufficiently atoned. The only proper posture for the West is supine. Curl up and let them kick until they’re spent. Give them Israel and New York and perhaps they’ll go away.This is either going to end on their terms, or ours. Which would you prefer?
Yup.
"The only proper posture for the West is supine."
God forbid we fight back. God forbid we get angry. God forbid we defend ourselves.
But the tour de force is the ass-whuppin' he gives to Salam Pax. Someone should have done it long ago.
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