Comments on: Ted Rall, Pulitzer Prize nominee http://www.swankyconservative.com/ted-rall-pulitzer-prize-nominee/ There's nothing a martini can't fix Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:28:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Doggone Friggin http://www.swankyconservative.com/ted-rall-pulitzer-prize-nominee/#comment-29550 Doggone Friggin Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:53:50 +0000 http://www.swankyconservative.com/ted-rall-pulitzer-prize-nominee/#comment-29550 Don't be too upset, the guy clearly knows nothing about the military. I don't know wether this is evidenced more by his inability to render something that comes anywhere close to the uniform/appearance of a person in today's US armed forces, or by his complete lack of knowledge of what service persons are actually like. Oh yeah, he forgot the most important point of the profile... that suicide bombers usually have explosive devices strapped to their chests. Don’t be too upset, the guy clearly knows nothing about the military. I don’t know wether this is evidenced more by his inability to render something that comes anywhere close to the uniform/appearance of a person in today’s US armed forces, or by his complete lack of knowledge of what service persons are actually like.

Oh yeah, he forgot the most important point of the profile… that suicide bombers usually have explosive devices strapped to their chests.

]]> By: El Clay http://www.swankyconservative.com/ted-rall-pulitzer-prize-nominee/#comment-29548 El Clay Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:33:43 +0000 http://www.swankyconservative.com/ted-rall-pulitzer-prize-nominee/#comment-29548 Oh good. More Ted Rall. Just what John Q. Public was clamoring for. That, and another Michael Moore propaganda piece. Just because you can say or do something, does not mean you HAVE to. Take the hint, fools. Oh good. More Ted Rall. Just what John Q. Public was clamoring for. That, and another Michael Moore propaganda piece.

Just because you can say or do something, does not mean you HAVE to. Take the hint, fools.

]]> By: Joe http://www.swankyconservative.com/ted-rall-pulitzer-prize-nominee/#comment-29547 Joe Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:24:57 +0000 http://www.swankyconservative.com/ted-rall-pulitzer-prize-nominee/#comment-29547 Ted's a typical 'il-liberal liberal' who FEELS smart but is abysmally stupid. Case in point; he claims there's no moral difference between our guys and the bad guys. Well, not in his moral fiction of a universe where similarity = identity. But in the real world there's a huge distinction between someone who places himself in harms way to protect the innocent and a savage who puts himself in harms way to blow up innocents. To judge the morality of an action one needs to know the act, the intent, and the circumstance. The act of a soldier going to Iraq to uphold the rule of law and independence of the Iraqi state from foreign terrorists is not illegal or immoral. SHOOTING at unlawful enemy combatants who drive unmarked explosive laden vehicles while not wearing uniforms themselves is not the same moral act as the unmarked terrorist driving the explosive laden vehicle. The intent of the two is also different. A soldier shooting at a VBIED to stop it from reaching a crowded market wishes only to keep the explosion from hitting unarmed, innocent civilians. The terrorist driver's intent is to kill as many civilians as possible. And the circumstances: one is a soldier, the other an unlawful enemy combantant, which, according to the Geneva Convention which Ted supposedly honors, means the terrorist is less entitled to respect and rights than a foreign soldier would be. In Ted's world the police who shoot back at a Mafia hitman are not just equally immoral, but MORE immoral because they're 'stupid' for not just surrendering to the thugs for the sake of some "peace" under tyranny of the Mob. Resisting anarchy and terror in Ted's world is worse than surrendering to it and begging for peace because in his moral universe victimhood has all the blessings and no moral responsibility whereas doing anything to defend oneself or others from becoming a victim is the only sin. Ted’s a typical ‘il-liberal liberal’ who FEELS smart but is abysmally stupid.

Case in point; he claims there’s no moral difference between our guys and the bad guys.

Well, not in his moral fiction of a universe where similarity = identity. But in the real world there’s a huge distinction between someone who places himself in harms way to protect the innocent and a savage who puts himself in harms way to blow up innocents.

To judge the morality of an action one needs to know the act, the intent, and the circumstance. The act of a soldier going to Iraq to uphold the rule of law and independence of the Iraqi state from foreign terrorists is not illegal or immoral. SHOOTING at unlawful enemy combatants who drive unmarked explosive laden vehicles while not wearing uniforms themselves is not the same moral act as the unmarked terrorist driving the explosive laden vehicle.

The intent of the two is also different. A soldier shooting at a VBIED to stop it from reaching a crowded market wishes only to keep the explosion from hitting unarmed, innocent civilians. The terrorist driver’s intent is to kill as many civilians as possible.

And the circumstances: one is a soldier, the other an unlawful enemy combantant, which, according to the Geneva Convention which Ted supposedly honors, means the terrorist is less entitled to respect and rights than a foreign soldier would be.

In Ted’s world the police who shoot back at a Mafia hitman are not just equally immoral, but MORE immoral because they’re ’stupid’ for not just surrendering to the thugs for the sake of some “peace” under tyranny of the Mob.

Resisting anarchy and terror in Ted’s world is worse than surrendering to it and begging for peace because in his moral universe victimhood has all the blessings and no moral responsibility whereas doing anything to defend oneself or others from becoming a victim is the only sin.

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