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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Well, it's even worse in the context of what she's actually TALKING ABOUT.
To the Muslim residents of the middle east, suggestions that Western incursion into their lands and sovereignty is the divine will of a Christian god is a direct reference to the Crusades, and is deeply deeply offensive. This kind of talk is directly inflammatory, and she doesn't even know it.
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The insurgents fighting back in Iraq and Afghanistan are saying similar things to what Palin has said here.
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Let the slime fest begin.
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Well, then. So it is.
I'll reread the Orwell quotation in my signature....
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 09-05-2008 at 07:10 AM..
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