Toys in the Attic

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4 Responses to “Quote of the day”

1. smijer:
   January 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pm

   Being at work, being unable to spend too much time perusing Malkin’s site – I’m not sure of the context, or what we are looking for the context of. Is it this:

   Bryan, an author at HotAir, opposed the war in Iraq, and it is ironic that he is saying that it is a human responsibility to stop genocide by military intervention, sooner rather than later as part of his weird theodicy?

   If it isn’t, can you help me out?

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2. Buck:
   January 31st, 2007 at 5:09 pm

   I get Pelosi interviews Haggard about baby-making.

   That is something I don’t even want to start, much less finish.

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3. RW:
   January 31st, 2007 at 6:22 pm

   smijer,
   Ironic in the case that in retrospect Kirsten Powers (mega-hottie Democrat, btw) says that we should’ve done something about genocide earlier in various cases in order to save lives while apparently forgetting about the mass graves in some place in the Middle East that has been in the news a lot lately (although not very much via that item). Part of the never-ending “yes, but” theme that has often been noted.

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4. smijer:
   January 31st, 2007 at 6:30 pm

   I see. So it doesn’t matter that the “genocide” was a decade old, it was justification for a war in 2003 – right? I don’t see the irony so much. When our leaders – Democrat or Republican – show the least bit of interest in climbing out of bed with tyrants as bad or nearly as bad as Saddam Hussein, or run their campaigns against the select few tyrants they decide they don’t want to sleep with any more as though they care the least bit about human rights overseas, then I’ll be sympathetic to the idea that any given war has something to do with helping the populations of the country we’re invading.

   As to Haggard & (whoever posted the entry you linked) saying that those who talk about him “hate the sinner, love the sin”... well, if the sin is demogoguing bigotry against gays, cheating on your wife, or behaving very hypocritically, then – well – I hate the sin. People can speak for themselves over whether they also hate the sinner. If the sin is having the best loving relationship possible with someone, then yeah – I’m for that sin.

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