Sunday, September 12, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
The Terry Jones saga shows the strength of anti-Americanism - '...I wonder if the Obama liberals - in their eagerness to turn the US into a European country, complete with paternalistic interventionism and bourgeois guilt - realise what is in the rest of that package: passivity, resignation and the corrosive cynicism that makes it impossible for Europeans to believe that ordinary people can use words like "freedom" and "justice" without smirking, and are not prepared to give up on the attempt to reconcile their ideals with the difficult realities of human behaviour.'
