Thursday, June 3, 2004
I never understood the sometimes over the top and single-minded nature of many of the Clinton-haters. I do not now understand people like George Soros. You have to be particularly out of touch and off-kilter to be able to compare the images out of Abu-Ghraib to what happened on 9/11. It's like looking at the destruction wrought to France on D-Day and comparing it morally to the Blitz.
JPost: Soros: US now the perpetrator in war on terror
Seeing pictures of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners was a "moment of truth" for America, Soros said during a conference sponsored by the liberal-leaning Campaign for America's Future. "I think those pictures hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself," Soros said, adding that it is a "very tough thing to say."
"There is, I'm afraid, that connection with those two events because the way President Bush conducted the war on terror converted us from victims into perpetrators," Soros said.
The war on terror has taken more innocent victims than the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Soros said.
"I think the American public now sees they have been misled," he said...
I have enough of an optimistic streak in me to think that the American people are not so easily mislead...by people like George Soros.
It's pretty obvious that George has been listening to himself (and Ross Perot) a bit too much. Just because you are a billionaire doesn't mean you are always right about everything.
Soros just can't forgive Bush for injecting God or belief in God into the public discussion. His entire thrust in life has been to project the idea that it is up to the individual to use the tools at hand to solve his/her problems, waiting for God just doesn't help. Soros is a bit of an extremist in this regard. He works along the lines that you should leave God at the church door on the way out. A pure secularist.
A middle path is that "God helps those who help themselves."