Filed under: Politics
The following comes straight out of a Dennis Prager article which can be found here.
You say you are a liberal.
Do you believe the following?
1. Standards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color.
2. Bilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English, is good for them and for America.
3. Murderers should never be put to death.
4. During the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze.
5. Colleges should not allow ROTC programs.
6. It was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
7. Poor parents should not be allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private schools.
8. It is good that trial lawyers and teachers unions are the two biggest contributors to the Democratic Party.
9. Marriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people.
10. A married couple should not have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or two women.
11. The Boy Scouts should not be allowed to use parks or any other public places and should be prohibited from using churches and synagogues for their meetings.
12. The present high tax rates are good.
13. Speech codes on college campuses are good and American values are bad.
14. The Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent.
15. The United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court.
16. It is good that colleges have dropped hundreds of men’s sports teams in order to meet gender-based quotas.
17. No abortions can be labeled immoral.
18. Restaurants should be prohibited by law from allowing customers to choose between a smoking and a non-smoking section.
19. High schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them.
20. Racial profiling for terrorists is wrong — a white American grandmother should as likely be searched as a Saudi young male.
21. Racism and poverty — not a lack of fathers and a crisis of values — are the primary causes of violent crime in the inner city.
22. It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, “God bless you” at their graduation.
23. No culture is morally superior to any other.
Those are all liberal positions. How many of them do you hold?
My cousin was never interested in politics. He would just follow whatever those around him were doing in regards to voting and political ideology in general. A few years ago, he visit Israel for the first time and, not having any immediate family members there, stayed with mine. He returned a year or two later, never letting go of the love he had for the country.
Since terrorist group Hezbollah has been attacking Israel he was been glued to the news networks (hold CNN) non-stop, and consequently picking up on political beliefs. He now has his own set of beliefs. He is very passionate regarding Israel. He found an image on-line which read “ISRAEL IS DOING THE WORLD’S WORK” and made it his default MySpace picture, thereby making it visible on anyone’s page whose username his appeared on. A mutual friend of ours posted a comment on my cousins page addressing his thoughts on the image. Before you read it, allow me to point out that I heard from another friend of ours that this guy has a few remaining family members in Lebanon, or something along those lines (I admit, I was hardly listening):
“what’s up with your pic man? i don’t think that’s very cool. Also, i don’t think the world’s work involves disproportionate attacks of misdirected anger at a country who has done nothing but cooperate at peacekeeping efforts. Don’t pull your terrorists are hiding out bullshit. tHE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS ISREAL HAD OCCUPIED LEBANON’S SOUTHERN PORTION FOR 2 DECADES, AND THAT SPARKED THE CREATION OF HEZBOLLAH. AND NOW ISRAEL IS MARCHING TROUPS INTO LEBANON. HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF AND YOUR HELPING SPIN THE WHEEL!!”
This is infuriating to me. If I hear one more person regard Israel’s response (think about that word for a minute) as “disproportionate” I am moving to fucking Canada. Consider this:
re·sponse: A reply, answer, or additional message that is returned to a sender.
That is straight out of Webster for ya. So please, can somebody explain to me why it is Israel who needs to withhold from attacking Hezbollah when every attack Israel executes is in response to a Hezbollah attack. By following the order of unfolding events, it is apparent that if Hezbollah doesn’t attack Israel, then Israel wouldn’t attack Hezbollah. Furthermore, the leftist notion of “Lebanon does NOT condone Hezbollah’s actions” is complete and utter bullshit. Lebanese Christians are indeed condemning of the terrorists. But these few people do not compose a majority of Lebanon’s population. It is comprised mostly of Muslims. To anyone who actually believes that these Muslim nations do not support terrorists please read the first three paragraphs of this article. I am not saying every Muslim within that nation supports terrorism, but the number is extremely higher than any leftist seems to take into account, and it is without doubt a majority.
I have yet to figure out if most of these people are just disregarding it because it disproves them, or if they really are ignorant idiots. Regardless, these people need to stop denying the obvious, Israel has done nothing but protect itself. If Hezbollah attacked the United States that way, they would have been eradicated from the face of the earth, every single one of them. Israel should not excercise restraint, because apparently being kind and peaceful doesn’t prevent these people from murdering thousands of Israeli citizens.
Click on the comment count link below to post a comment. You do not have to register.
