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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Moral Clarity and firmness of purpose." I know this is code, but for what?
This sounds an awful lot like the horsecrap we heard in the buildup to war in Iraq.
Does anyone have insight into what it might mean?
My personal theory is it is a meme from the extreme right that wants death to all moslem peoples.
Or, alternatively, it's a line from one of the leaders of the crusades in the 12th century.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)If you don't believe in Christ, you just CAN'T be a good person!
Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)It's a RW Christian meme like I suspected?
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Viva_Daddy
(785 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)stick to your beliefs and never, ever, ever let facts or reality or concern for others change your mind
Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)certainly they are resolute about maintaining their place in an alternative universe
MineralMan
(146,320 posts)"Intellectual clarity and a willingness to think."
Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)Moral Clarity....."I am right because the Bible says......"
Firmness of purpose....."I support the military (other peoples children) in killing people who disagree with me."
hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)"moral clarity" = self-righteousness
"firmness of purpose" = bloodthirsty war fever
undeterred
(34,658 posts)jody
(26,624 posts)hunter
(38,321 posts)...a wretched thing, and the founders of the USA knew it.
It sounds like Ryan has been reading Tim Staples, mores the pity...
http://www.catholic.com/profiles/tim-staples
gollygee
(22,336 posts)They see any attempt to be diplomatic as weakness, "sympathy" for the other side, "an apology", whatever.
They are proud of their lack of diplomatic skills. They find Obama's great diplomatic skills to be a weakness.
We're back to Opposite World, like when W was prez.
nolabear
(41,988 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,335 posts)The phrase moral clarity encodes a complex political argument that includes all of the following claims:
The War on Terrorism, like some previous wars involving the United States (particularly World War II and the Cold War), is a conflict between good and evil.
Traditional American values like democracy and freedom are universal human rights, worth promoting and defending through military intervention.
Attempts to understand or explain the actions of anti-Western terrorists as justifiable responses to actions of the United States or Israel are a sign of moral weakness at best, and sympathy for the terrorists at worst, and will hamper efforts to defeat them.
Though the actions of the United States and its allies may lead to civilian deaths or other forms of collateral damage, may require the use of means such as torture that would be condemned in other contexts, and may involve temporary alliances with undemocratic regimes, these actions are justified by the greater moral necessity of defeating terrorism and thus promoting American values and ensuring long-term U.S. security.
Opponents of action against terrorists are guilty of promoting moral relativism or moral equivalence, in which the allegedly similar means of both anti-terrorists and terrorists are used to blur the moral differences between good and evil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_clarity
Or:
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Moral Relativism. Aka historicism. The denial of any unified, objective standard of value. The diametric opposite of Moral Equivalence (q.v.).
Moral Equivalence. Judgment of the United States government by the same unified, objective standard of value as the governments of other countries. The diametric opposite of Moral Relativism (q.v.).
Moral Clarity. The Zen-like state of mind from which it is possible accuse the same political enemy, simultaneously, of both Moral Relativism and Moral Equivalence.
http://mutualist.blogspot.co.uk/2005/06/partial-neoconservative-lexicon.html
hunter
(38,321 posts)It sounds like something Charles Coughlin would say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin
Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)THAT is what I was thinking of. REAGANISM! Stuff set place by Reagan's adventues lead in a straight line to the events of 9-11.
eppur_se_muova
(36,274 posts)or WKWRAWBTSOOAWD.
Core Repug article of faith.
choie
(4,111 posts)We have the moral authority to do whatever the hell we want.