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November 14, 2009
Interesting question: Where do you draw the line?
"The truth is we’re not prepared to draw a line even after he’s gone ahead and committed mass murder.“What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy,” said Gen. George Casey, the U.S. Army’s Chief of Staff, “but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.” A “greater tragedy” than 14 dead and dozens of wounded? Translating from the original brain-addled multicult-speak, the Army chief of staff is saying that the same fatuous prostration before marshmallow illusions that led to the “tragedy” must remain in place. If it leads to occasional mass murder, well, hopefully it can be held to what cynical British civil servants used to call, during the Northern Irish “Troubles,” “an acceptable level of violence.” Fourteen dead is evidently acceptable. A hundred and forty? Fourteen hundred? I guess we’ll find out." -- Tragedy or Scandal? by Mark Steyn on National Review Online
Posted by Vanderleun at November 14, 2009 1:31 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.