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Hussain the Prophet...
posted on Monday, July 24, 2006 9:57 PM

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# re: Hussain the Prophet... 7/29/2006 1:12 PM Ponder from 64.125.77.18
http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/2006/07/morality_and_the_warfighting.html

# re: Hussain the Prophet... 7/29/2006 2:05 PM Jack from 67.166.2.58
And so continues the random comments that have nothing to do with the post responded to...

I find Djerejian's article to be ridiculous and preachy. He's intensely proud of his own morality and virtue, and endlessly willing to demonize people he doesn't agree with.

That's not to say that the people he's disagreeing with are completely right... It's just that he's the other side of the idiot coin, and then compounds it by being far more casual and unreflective. He's an "intellectual" who is perpetually trying to demonstrate his intellect via complicated sentence structure and ten dollar adjectives. He clearly thinks he's very charming.

And he's just wrong, attacks strawmen, fails to prove his own assumptions.

There's a difference between noting that crushing civilian populations tends to win wars, and actually advocating it.

I think people like Podhoretz are certainly advocating a more callous approach to war, but they're not talking about indiscriminate carpet bombing of population centers. They're not talking about genocide.

It's very typical of the supposed "intellectuals" to use their moralism to crush any views they don't like. If we're trying to win wars, why is it evil to observe the tactics that have worked in the past? Djerejian isn't even willing to allow Podhoretz to comment on this, he tries to shame and demonize him into silence for even mentioning it.

That's not intellectualism, or examination of history, that's secular leftist zealotry. I respect it no more than I respect ultra-conservative Christians trying to force their morality on people. In fact, it's the exact same thing, only Djerejian wraps it up in his pretentious blathering.

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