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Another commentary from Steven Olivo as he takes on iconic leftist Katha Pollitt. She is best known for her bimonthly column Subject to Debate in the leftist rag The Nation. She is also one of the signers of the third Humanist Manifesto (officially called Humanism and Its Aspirations). Anything thing that exposes these self-proclaimed wise people for the fools they are really helps and Steven Olivo does a great job in calling them out.
Katha Pollitt who is apparently perfectly ok with infanticide and cannibalism as long as its carried out by someone who hates Trump wrote a laughable screed in the Nation nine days after 9/11. Read it if you have a strong enough stomach its still up.
If you dont feel like wasting your time it boils down to her telling her 13yo daughter who thought they should raise a flag in the wake of 9/11 that she would have to buy her own and fly it out her own window because it stands for jingoism and war. Somehow she just couldnt think of a symbol appropriate to the time since all of them including the cross and Star of David could be considered hateful.
Its nine days after the greatest attack on the US since Pearl Harbor. Her daughters high school is literally blocks from Ground Zero. The smoke is still drifting. The firemen and other first responders (including 400 dogs) are still digging bodies out of the ashes and debris. The hospitals are still full of the victims they couldnt treat and discharge immediately. A section of the Pentagon is in ruins and still being worked at also. The wreckage of the plane intended for either the Capitol or the White House is still in that field in PA. Families are still hanging by the phone or clutching their cell phones anxiously waiting for word on their loved ones although this operation has moved well beyond rescue and is now into the recovery stage.
Dana Palmer about as old as her daughter give or take is writing the heart-wrenching letter to her father Battalion Chief Palmer who perished with most of his men that will be read out the next Memorial Day. The commander of Engine 23 who escaped himself but watched his command disintegrate before his eyes is doing his best to tell the McPadden Papageorge Tirado and Whitford families none of whose men were older than 31 that those husbands fathers sons and brothers arent coming home. Rudy Giuliani is pulling a city torn apart back together and George W. Bush is girding the country for the war he knows must come. Around the globe many Americans still cant get home and many more who wear the uniforms of our armed forces are preparing to go into battle in a supremely unpleasant environment. Their ultimate target is the man who who killed more than 2.500 Americans including 343 firemen and also 8 children the youngest only 2.
Ms. Pollitts message to all these folks? Its really too bad what happened but you really cant blame the people who did this after what the US has been doing. The US brought this on itself and it needs to take down its flags and hang its head in shame. Nine days after. Social media as we know it now was still about 6 years yet to come but if it had existed then Im almost certain this screed would have been up on Twitter and Facebook that very afternoon with plenty of brainless retweets and reposts.
If she scoffs at the death of 8 children should it really come as a surprise that shed be ok with a president who eats children as long as his views comport with hers? Children are like any other kind of people to the left. They are pawns to be used when they benefit the cause. If those same 8 children had been the victims of a deranged gunman you can bet your last dollar their names and likenesses would be plastered all over the damn place together with messages to do away with guns.
Normally I respect chess players I respect strategists and I respect those who work in realpolitik. I cant respect those so interested only in their own power that they will treat children as precious one day and disposable the next.
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