That really was an obscure relational tangent. I find it hard to believe even a politician was not playing this. It may or may not have been a political in your face ploy by the Iranian government to the fundies. Either way the same effect will probably take effect. The propaganda machine (corporate owned news) is sure to trumpet this one sooner or later, at least to fundie audience anyway.
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iranby Stephen Bender ...like the Beach Boys used to sing...
Another Summer Blockbuster?
If the duly reelected American government decides to bomb Iran – or green lights Israel to do it, which is morally indistinguishable – these men will put we the people in the position of having no moral defense against Islamic terrorism. Some leftists – most crassly Ward Churchill – made something like this point after 9/11. That was overblown rhetoric; and the reference to "little Eichmanns" at Cantor-Fitzgerald was a statement of moral idiocy.
It hurts to write and know that we have done unto others much more than they have done unto us – this includes 9/11, I'm afraid. No one "deserved" to die on 9/11, nor will anyone "deserve" to die in a future terror attack in the United States. But then, no one "deserved" to die, as we sat transfixed in our living rooms, under the bombs of "Shock & Awe,"* That's "moral equivalence" too – all human life is precious.
The explanation on offer by amoralists like William Bennett is that our motives are pure, which of course they aren't. And, again and again, we're "the greatest democracy in the history of the world." Why, we're Americans; don't people know that we're a good people? We "work hard and play by the rules"; we try (and mostly fail) to raise upstanding citizens. Sorry, self-regard doesn't cut it. Non-Americans around the world want to see some actual evidence of these alleged values and morals that the president prattles on about.
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What We've BecomeThe question should be asked: are we a good people anymore? We are not a great people – that much is certain. Not in a land where more people watch "American Idol" than the State of the Union address. In reality, we are still, as Martin Luther King pointed out nearly four decades ago, "the greatest purveyors of violence in the world." One day, if we are not careful, we will choke on our myths
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/bender/bender10.html