Evil is relative

by elecartist2

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2004-02-11 09:22:00

Parent message is 598282
From their tenured perches, our elites keep reminding us that everything is relative,there are no absolutes.
But when the SS selected those who go left and those who go right, that was absolute! One direction led to work camps, the other straight to death. Ambiguity was costly then, as it is now. We are even urged to to “understand” the enemy;root cause. Absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco forsaw our topsy-turvey age, wherein “to understand is to justify.” (British MP Jenny Tonge on her support for Palestinian Arab terrorism: “I can understand.”)
If it is true that there is good and bad in all of us and that we are all related, then in the words of that famous movie mogul, include me out!
I am not related to Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein. I am not related to men who send off children to kill and die to achieve paradise with 72 dark eyed virgins. I am not related to mothers who proudly send off their sons with explosive-belts for the glory of jihad. I am not related to young men who cheer each time a bomb goes off on a Jerusalem
school bus, and I am not related to the boys who come out of their rat holes to dance atop our Black Hawks Down. I am not related to Yasser Arafat, who got rich from the business of terrorism, and I am not related to his wife Suha, who suffers for her people from the Champs Elysees at $100.00 a month.

I am an island. You are an Island. We are an Island. We did not make that choice. They imposed it on us 9/11.

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