Monday, March 02, 2009

Can You Believe This Headline?

Learning to live with Radical Islam. I guess coming from the magazine that said a few weeks ago that "We are all Socialists Now," I cannot be to shocked. You know we probably just should have learned to live with Nazis.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dude. Seriously? Clearly you didn't read the article. You saw the headline, got outraged, and decided to make a post.

It was written by Fareed Zakaria who has more intelligence in his pinky finger than you and I have combined.

One of the main lines in the article is this: "Recognizing the reality of radical Islam is entirely different from accepting its ideas."

He's basically saying that the true nut jobs out there in the Muslim world are few and far between and most of the people we are fighting are not the hardliners (Al Qaeda), but people who have other agendas and that we can reconcile with.

He goes even further in saying that the Bush administration evolved it's tactics. During the first term, they used generalizations that grouped a whole bunch of people together who didn't all belong in a bunch, but by his second term, they had learned that generalizations are dangerous. You piss off a lot of people and create even more enemies when you say those things.

And the nazi line? The nazi's wanted to take over the world so, no, we shouldn't have just lived with them.

You should probably read the article, it was actually quite interesting and you might like it.