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Victor has articulated a nagging suspicion of mine: the continual aggregation of "don't sweat the small stuff" sops, for the bleeding hearts to the left of sanity, eventually and inevitably leads to a mountain of congealed sweat. That has always been the fly in the ointment of appeasement — the problems never go away. They metastasize into a calamity that can only be treated by nuclear radiation therapy (with extreme prejudice).
Post #713 Nuclear Radiation Therapy
“Then there is the ‘they are not a serious threat’ chorus. In global terms, perhaps not. But they represent a further cheapening of international customs and norms, akin to the composition of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights [...]. In response, why make the world angry at us for such a trifle? In the manner that [...] it is not worth reminding al Arabiya that radical Islam is a fascistic creed that thrives off the larger gender apartheid, religious intolerance, statism, authoritarianism and tribalism of the Islamic world, so too making a big deal about pirates just isn’t worth the hassle and loss of cool.More than strange, Victor. More like a perverse world.
And then there are the apologies. [...] If the Germans won’t trump our supposed genocide of Native Americans with more remorse about the Holocaust, can they at least explain their profit-mongering commerce with criminal states like Iran?
So the game is now that we wish to be multipolar and multilateral — and yet remain unilateral in our apologies and serial trashing of our prior commander in chief? Meanwhile our TVs are saturated with stories about two-bit thugs with AK-47s ‘terrorizing’ the global shipping lanes. Strange world.” [emphasis added]
— Victor Davis Hanson
Victor has articulated a nagging suspicion of mine: the continual aggregation of "don't sweat the small stuff" sops, for the bleeding hearts to the left of sanity, eventually and inevitably leads to a mountain of congealed sweat. That has always been the fly in the ointment of appeasement — the problems never go away. They metastasize into a calamity that can only be treated by nuclear radiation therapy (with extreme prejudice).
Post #713 Nuclear Radiation Therapy
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