Only the Tipsy Haven't Tipped
On the train home tonight I read Jim Geraghty's editorial in the NY Sun ($) about the "tipping point." I got it, it made sense, but I didn't know that it was, like 'ya know, a theme, like, out there. Then I get home, play with/bathe/tuck in the kids and surf to Instapundit and find out that the 'Tipping Point' seems to be, like, a construct. Anyway, here is what Glenn has chosen to highlight:
The Bush Administration’s reaction to the cartoon riots was comparably milquetoast. The violence and threats committed over the cartoons shocked, frightened and really, really angered Americans. They want somebody to smack the Muslim world back onto its heels and set them straight: “It doesn’t matter how offensive a cartoon is, you’re not allowed to riot, burn down embassies and kill people over it.”
They’re ashamed that Denmark is leading the fight over this.
When the Bush administration’s reaction was mostly equivocating statements and a failure to confront the Muslim world over its insistence of the worldwide applicability of its blasphemy laws, I suspect a lot of folks whose top issue is the war on terror concluded that Bush was going wobbly. . . .
Ah...no. Not ashamed to let Denmark fight the fight over important, yet abstract, principles of Western liberalism (small l!) while we, the Americans, dispatch more terrorists to that Great Brothel of Virgins in the Sky. The fact that Der Fuhrer Chimpy Hilter did not publicly express his "concern" about the cartoon controversy did not sway me from confidence that he would have Osama, and all loyalists thereof, whacked in a heartbeat via Hellfire missile or Special Ops bullet to the forehaead, take your pick. (Come to think of it, why are we not giving the Gotti clan a deal... go to Waziristan and whack this guy and and get your walking papers. I mean, the mafia can get to anybody, right?)
Wobbly? Doubt it. It's a feint. I wouldn't be surprised if he even wanted to appear wobbly leading up to dropping a few bunker-busters on Natanz and Bushehir. When will people learn? The Bush/Rove strategy is to sit by, apparently clueless, and wait until opponents have their necks so far out before they lop off your head.
Anyway, there may be something to this tipping point thing, but I don't see why we have to learn the lesson over and over for it to become wisdom. My tipping point was 9/11. What people should be cogitating over is when and where is the tipping point in the Muslim world. When will they realize that their religion has gone off the rails?
The Bush Administration’s reaction to the cartoon riots was comparably milquetoast. The violence and threats committed over the cartoons shocked, frightened and really, really angered Americans. They want somebody to smack the Muslim world back onto its heels and set them straight: “It doesn’t matter how offensive a cartoon is, you’re not allowed to riot, burn down embassies and kill people over it.”
They’re ashamed that Denmark is leading the fight over this.
When the Bush administration’s reaction was mostly equivocating statements and a failure to confront the Muslim world over its insistence of the worldwide applicability of its blasphemy laws, I suspect a lot of folks whose top issue is the war on terror concluded that Bush was going wobbly. . . .
Ah...no. Not ashamed to let Denmark fight the fight over important, yet abstract, principles of Western liberalism (small l!) while we, the Americans, dispatch more terrorists to that Great Brothel of Virgins in the Sky. The fact that Der Fuhrer Chimpy Hilter did not publicly express his "concern" about the cartoon controversy did not sway me from confidence that he would have Osama, and all loyalists thereof, whacked in a heartbeat via Hellfire missile or Special Ops bullet to the forehaead, take your pick. (Come to think of it, why are we not giving the Gotti clan a deal... go to Waziristan and whack this guy and and get your walking papers. I mean, the mafia can get to anybody, right?)
Wobbly? Doubt it. It's a feint. I wouldn't be surprised if he even wanted to appear wobbly leading up to dropping a few bunker-busters on Natanz and Bushehir. When will people learn? The Bush/Rove strategy is to sit by, apparently clueless, and wait until opponents have their necks so far out before they lop off your head.
Anyway, there may be something to this tipping point thing, but I don't see why we have to learn the lesson over and over for it to become wisdom. My tipping point was 9/11. What people should be cogitating over is when and where is the tipping point in the Muslim world. When will they realize that their religion has gone off the rails?
posted by Donny Baseball at 11:58 PM
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