Blog discoveries
Via Cathy Seipp, I've discovered a blog called Odysseus, written by an Army officer in Iraq.
Here's his take on the absolute moral authority of Cindy Sheehan:
"... the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute." --Maureen Dowd
I would say that Maureen Dowd has the IQ of a houseplant, but I'm afraid that it would get back to our ferns and I'd have to apologize.
In this case, though, I'll concede her point and raise it.
She states that the moral authority of parents that have buried children in Iraq is absolute, but she stops at Cindy Sheehan.
She's missed a few.
Well, more than a few.
There are hundreds of thousands of parents who have buried their children after they were killed in Iraq. They include the parents of children killed by suicide bombers, children murdered in Saddam's prisons and buried in mass graves, children gassed in the Kurdish enclaves, children raped and murdered as a lesson to their families, children fed into plastic-shredding machines and children who were brutalized in every way that the sickest of the Ba'athists and Jihadis could imagine.
Is the moral authority of the parents of those children absolute? Because if it is, then it changes the anti-war calculus.
They want us to stay.
[I think we'll be adding Odysseus and Cathy's World to our blog roll.]
Here's his take on the absolute moral authority of Cindy Sheehan:
"... the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute." --Maureen Dowd
I would say that Maureen Dowd has the IQ of a houseplant, but I'm afraid that it would get back to our ferns and I'd have to apologize.
In this case, though, I'll concede her point and raise it.
She states that the moral authority of parents that have buried children in Iraq is absolute, but she stops at Cindy Sheehan.
She's missed a few.
Well, more than a few.
There are hundreds of thousands of parents who have buried their children after they were killed in Iraq. They include the parents of children killed by suicide bombers, children murdered in Saddam's prisons and buried in mass graves, children gassed in the Kurdish enclaves, children raped and murdered as a lesson to their families, children fed into plastic-shredding machines and children who were brutalized in every way that the sickest of the Ba'athists and Jihadis could imagine.
Is the moral authority of the parents of those children absolute? Because if it is, then it changes the anti-war calculus.
They want us to stay.
[I think we'll be adding Odysseus and Cathy's World to our blog roll.]
posted by Kate Marie | 11:46 PM | Permalink
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2 Comments:
Great post. We definitely need to add them to our roll.
"Moral authority" is a crock. The wonder of our democracy is that we all stand as equals in the public square.
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