Mike Wallace and CBS have joined forces with the pacifists. A better journalist wrote this in The Washington Post: "If Americans do not fight, the terrorists will attack America again. And we now know such attacks can kill many thousands of Americans. The American pacifists, therefore, are on the side of future mass murderers of Americans. They are objectively pro terrorist. There is no way out of this reasoning. No honest person can pretend that the groups that attacked America will, if let alone, not attack again. Nor can any honest person say that this attack is not at least as likely to kill thousands upon thousands of innocent people. Not to fight in this instance is to let the attackers live to attack and murder again; to be a pacifist in this instance is to accept and, in practice, support this outcome." Those are the words of Michael Kelly, prize-winning author, editor, and columnist. He died on the road to Baghdad in 2003. Let's honor his memory, by heeding his warning.
Kelly really was a great journalist, editor and writer. He could grab a reader by the throat and choke her with ideas--ideas that she would never even try on her own. Some in the press called him a "conservative" but he was no fan of the current bunch in at 1600 Penn. Ave (nor of its previous occupants). I disagreed with a lot of what he wrote, but he never stopped trying to make me think.
Now, I doubt Tony Perkins really knows a thing about Kelly, his career or his politics. What really makes a "better journalist" in Perkins' grape-kool-aid-clouded-mind? Kelly supported the ill-fated Iraq war. I guess Chris Hitchens would make Perkins' list as well: he's a war hawk who's as deranged about Iraq as Rumsfeld himself. Of course Chris is to the left of Chomsky, but that shouldn't matter.
I wonder: if Kelly hadn't been blown apart by an IED, would the The Atlantic Monthly have continued to support a war that has eroded all those values that he held so high, values that made him the great journalist that he was?
Posted by: Deacon Tim | August 14, 2006 at 07:35 PM
Sorry, I don't want to be lectured by the likes of Tony Perkins. Why doesn't he give up the pretense of Christian politics and go back to fraternizing with the Klan?
Posted by: Streak | August 15, 2006 at 07:08 AM
Check out Witherington's post on the faith of the founding fathers and mothers. There's also some good writing in the commentary section, including a link to the ideology of the US revolution.
dlw
Posted by: dlw | August 15, 2006 at 11:34 AM
Check out Witherington's post on the faith of the founding fathers and mothers. There's also some good writing in the commentary section, including a link to the ideology of the US revolution.
dlw
Posted by: dlw | August 15, 2006 at 11:34 AM