December 30th, 2007 — Enlightenment values, anti-totalitarianism, global culture war
Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son, Bilawal, has been named to succeed her:
Acting in accordance with Benazir Bhutto’s last wishes, her Pakistan People’s Party today named her teen-age son and her husband as its leaders.
Young Bilawal seems to have taken in certain Enlightenment ideas with his mother’s milk [e.a.]:
Phillippa Neal, 19, lives in the same on-campus housing as Bilawal. She says he was not accompanied by any security at Oxford. According to Neal, Bilawal posted a statement from his mother the day of her assassination, which read: “You can imprison a man but not an idea. You can exile a man but not an idea. You can kill a man but not an idea. — Benazir Bhutto.” The day of the assassination his Facebook status read: “Well behaved women rarely make history.” Neal is not sure whether that quote was portentious [sic] or posted after Benazir’s assassination.
During the meeting at which the Pakistan People’s Party succession announcement was made,
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, a tall and composed Oxford student, took the center chair at the news conference at the Bhutto family enclave as he read the announcement that the party would contest the coming election.
“The long and historic struggle for democracy will continue with renewed vigor,” he said. “My mother always said democracy was the best revenge.”
Bilawal sounds like a worthy heir to a worthy cause.
Long may he live.
December 30th, 2007 — I'm speechless, Israel bashing, Jews, anti-semitism, anti-tribalism, cluelessness, dazed and confused, extreme political correctness, extreme self-criticism, huh?, idiots, liberal "thinking", moral cretinism, nonsense, politics makes strange bedfellows
Philip Weiss discovers anti-democratic extremism.
I was shocked by Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Any fool knew it was coming, that is the not the point. It was the pure evil infamy of it. They hate democracy. Who hates democracy? Well, some elements of radical Islam. When David Axelrod of Obama’s campaign yesterday hinted that Hillary Clinton was somehow responsible because she voted for the Iraq War, I thought, Don’t be an idiot. …
After the Cold War, Susan Sontag famously said that the National Review was more reliable than the Nation on the Soviet Union. This time around the left must show that it is more reliable than the Weekly Standard and the New Republic about “the war on terror”. We are winning this ideological battle because we have not overstated the threat, and they have, and we do not ignore the fact that the Palestinian situation is a red flag across the Muslim world. Yet we can’t forget: there are forces of darkness out there.
The sewer rats in his comments section are none too pleased about Weiss’s revelation:
For his cheerleading of those other blamers of the Jews, Weiss made a Top Ten Moonbats of 2007 list:
Weiss has become an “Israel Lobby” fundamentalist. In his eyes, to question the scholarship of Walt and Mearsheimer is to question truth. Every page of their book is gospel. Any negative review of their work is automatically dismissed as a “smear,” and every day that passes without an expose of the “Israel Lobby” on “60 Minutes” or the cover of Time magazine is further evidence of Jewish control over the media.
This mild critique doesn’t do Weiss justice. He has to be read to be believed. I’ll give you all the pleasure of finding out for yourselves, but I won’t provide another link.
