Kathianne
06-29-2015, 07:42 AM
As I've said, I don't necessarily 'get' the Confederate Flag issue, though with discussion I'm understanding some of the South's arguments. That doesn't ally what the flag means to others, though I find a huge issue with the way the reaction has gone, from making it unavailable via the marketplace.
Yes, I do get what Peters is saying with his comparison here:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/26/islamic-state-and-utopia-problem-destroying-past-to-command-future.html
Islamic State and the utopia problem: Destroying the past to command the future
http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/person/p/ralph-peters/_jcr_content/image.img.png/48/48/1435333536481.png (http://www.foxnews.com/archive/ralph-peters)
By Ralph Peters (http://www.foxnews.com/archive/ralph-peters)
<time itemprop="datePublished" pubdate="" datetime="2015-06-26T06:00:00.000-04:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 1.5; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background: 0px 0px;">Published June 26, 2015</time>
The Islamic State Caliphate has begun the destruction of the glorious archaeological site of Palmyra in central Syria, where the Roman Empire met the East and a fusion culture formed. The fanatics already had leveled numerous ancient monuments, irreplaceable wonders of humanity’s common heritage. And those rampages came atop the systematic destruction of 2,000 years of Christian civilization in the Middle East, accompanied by massacres of members of every local faith, including Islam.
And what outrages the American Left? The horrific destruction? The breathtaking slaughter? No. Our Left has gone to the barricades over the prospect of a Southern working stiff putting a Confederate Battle Flag decal on his pickup truck.
I’ve always hoped that at least some of the Left’s stirring rhetoric about human dignity and culture was sincere, but my hope has become considerably less audacious. How can the Left look away from the comprehensive destruction and atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State? Do brown lives matter only when deaths can be blamed on American drones? Where are the “Hands up! Don’t Decapitate!”demonstrations?
And if leftists truly don’t care about the hundreds of thousands slaughtered by regional factions (the Islamic State being only the most imaginative), don’t our self-appointed arbiters of culture – ever so quick to ridicule the rest of us as rubes – care about the obliteration of ancient treasures that rival the Parthenon or Roman Forum?
I was trying to crack this riddle on my way to the Fox studio – and the light went off at a traffic stop, literally and figuratively:
For all of their profound differences, the Islamic State and the Left have one purpose in common: They want to wipe out history so they can write it anew to support their utopias, the perfected societies of their inhuman fantasies.
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Yes, I do get what Peters is saying with his comparison here:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/06/26/islamic-state-and-utopia-problem-destroying-past-to-command-future.html
Islamic State and the utopia problem: Destroying the past to command the future
http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/person/p/ralph-peters/_jcr_content/image.img.png/48/48/1435333536481.png (http://www.foxnews.com/archive/ralph-peters)
By Ralph Peters (http://www.foxnews.com/archive/ralph-peters)
<time itemprop="datePublished" pubdate="" datetime="2015-06-26T06:00:00.000-04:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 1.5; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background: 0px 0px;">Published June 26, 2015</time>
The Islamic State Caliphate has begun the destruction of the glorious archaeological site of Palmyra in central Syria, where the Roman Empire met the East and a fusion culture formed. The fanatics already had leveled numerous ancient monuments, irreplaceable wonders of humanity’s common heritage. And those rampages came atop the systematic destruction of 2,000 years of Christian civilization in the Middle East, accompanied by massacres of members of every local faith, including Islam.
And what outrages the American Left? The horrific destruction? The breathtaking slaughter? No. Our Left has gone to the barricades over the prospect of a Southern working stiff putting a Confederate Battle Flag decal on his pickup truck.
I’ve always hoped that at least some of the Left’s stirring rhetoric about human dignity and culture was sincere, but my hope has become considerably less audacious. How can the Left look away from the comprehensive destruction and atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State? Do brown lives matter only when deaths can be blamed on American drones? Where are the “Hands up! Don’t Decapitate!”demonstrations?
And if leftists truly don’t care about the hundreds of thousands slaughtered by regional factions (the Islamic State being only the most imaginative), don’t our self-appointed arbiters of culture – ever so quick to ridicule the rest of us as rubes – care about the obliteration of ancient treasures that rival the Parthenon or Roman Forum?
I was trying to crack this riddle on my way to the Fox studio – and the light went off at a traffic stop, literally and figuratively:
For all of their profound differences, the Islamic State and the Left have one purpose in common: They want to wipe out history so they can write it anew to support their utopias, the perfected societies of their inhuman fantasies.
...