[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot

  • From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:09:54 -0500

>> J: In modern Europe, advocating and rejoicing the killing of
> human beings is seen as barbarous, very few do it in public,
> and not for long. Which does not mean that we don't have
> effective ways of dealing with terrorism over here. On the
> contrary.
>
> E: In a way, that's the USA's fault. We made your culture that
> way ...  helped you rebuild, swaddled you in nonaggression,
> secure from a Soviet assault, full of the moral superiority
> because you had an older brother to fight your fights for
> you.  Now that the USSR's gone, you don't need us at all and
> can thumb your nose or, more aptly, place index finger under
> eye.

>>Judy: And that would be why Israel employs the death penalty for
"extraordinary crimes" only (and has only ever executed one
person)?


Judy, what a confusion you have sown! Israel's criminal justice record has nothing to do with its anti-terror record. Israel routinely defends itself by exterminating terrorists.

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