This is a day of daft. Earlier, I received and posted an electronic mail, that for me was an enigma. I wondered; would I want to publish this passionate plea, one filled with party line propaganda. I struggled with the idea. This epistle stressed a thought that I disdain. “I do not care” disturbs me. Finally, I resigned myself. I decided it is important to share what is truth for many Americans. I surmise if we do not recognize what is within the minds of others, we know little. Therefore, I offered a glimpse into the mind of a “Compassionate Conservative.” You may wish to read, SCARY! SONG OF COMPASSION? FROM CONSERVATIVE PAMELA FOSTER ©
Then I turned on the television. I was looking forward to my daily dose of News Hour viewing. Journalist Jim Lehrer was interviewing Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. I listened intently, always wishing to understand the views of this administration, and then it happened. The Whitehouse, through Miss Rice, is promoting a stance similar to the scary one of Pamela Foster. The email that I read earlier is now, virtually, United States policy.
The words of Secretary of State Rice will, henceforth, be pushed on the people, “When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists? No one is making them do it [engage in violent behaviors]. They're doing it because they want to create chaos and to undermine our way to life.”
My thought is this; I recognize the administration rejects science. Scientists were not included in the energy commission panel. They do not advise on issues relating to the environment. Nonetheless, I request that physicists be placed in the State Department. America might benefit from the wisdom of cause and effect. Remember Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “For every action, there is an equal and opposing reaction.”
Perhaps you prefer the principles of String Theory, “There is no such thing as a pure vacuum in space. Depending upon which interrelated properties of the basic fabric that one attempts to define, the distinctions are only arbitrary and illusionary.”
I offered a portion of the interview for your reading. You may read the rest at NEWSMAKER: CONDOLEEZZA RICE, July 28, 2005
JIM LEHRER: What about the additional element here that, increasingly, terrorism experts and Muslim experts are saying that the combination of Iraq and other foreign policy decisions by the United States are actually creating more terrorists every day than they are eliminating them.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists? The terrorists on Sept. 11 attacked the United States. We weren't in Iraq. We weren't even in Afghanistan on Sept. 11.
They have attacked in places that had no forces in either place. They've attacked all over the world. They've attacked in Morocco and in Bali and in Egypt and in London and in Madrid.
When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill. And they want to kill in the name of a perverted ideology that really is not Islam, but they somehow want to claim that mantle to say that this is about some kind of grievance. This isn't about some kind of grievance. This is an effort to destroy, rather than to build.
And until everybody in the world calls it by name -- the evil that it is -- stops making excuses for them, then I think we're going to have a problem. And I hope that after the bombings of innocent people in London, innocent people at Sharm el-Sheikh, innocent children in Iraq, that people will call this by name and stop making excuses for these people.
No one is making them do it. They're doing it because they want to create chaos and to undermine our way to life.
Dear Reader . . . I shared my thoughts. Please feel free to offer yours. I invite you to stimulate discussion, advance understanding, to rant, rage, or agree with the esteemed Miss Rice. I look forward to your contribution.
Condi Rice is despicable. That is not the issue and nobody says it is. What is the issue is the lies she and Bush and his cronies told, how they ignored evidence from other "conservative" advisers that the invasion of Iraq would create more terrorists and embolden Al Queda, which was on the run when the US invaded Afghanistan, and that more troops were needed to "pacify" (miltiary jargon, sorry) Iraq after Saddam was toppled.
None of the people who were in the so-called conservative establishment who implored Bush & Co. to listen were talking about kumbaya with terrorists (and no serious anti-war lefties were either).
Again, Rice is despicable.
Posted by: Mitchell Freedman | Friday, July 29, 2005 at 10:32 AM