JERUSALEM POST : BUSH ‘RIGHT ON’ RE ‘EVIL’

JERUSALEM POST : BUSH ‘RIGHT ON’ RE ‘EVIL’

J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Editorialist for The Jerusalem Post and President of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Amnon Rubinstein stated: "People who aspire to blow up airplanes in the name of Islam are truly fascists, just as President Bush said.
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Couth souls may shrink from such terms, but tragic experience proves the existence of unadulterated evil, as well as the dangers emanating from murderous regimes that seek to destroy civilization as we know it.

"Iranian society may be complex, but its regime, openly anti-Semitic in the Nazi tradition, seeking to ‘wipe Israel off the map,’ is evil and dangerous.

No amount of sophistication can conceal this fact of life and death.

"Hizbullah and Hamas, the two Iranian offshoots planted on Israel's fragile and vulnerable borders, are similarly evil in deed and intention; and North Korea is almost a caricature of evil. It is guilty of every conceivable crime against humanity, as well as of a few inconceivable ones, such as kidnapping Japanese civilians, and it threatens its neighbors with missiles."

Reviewing the editorial, I agree totally. And then I question why the thinking world shrinks from stark statements spelling truth. When US President George W. Bush speaks of "evil," does not the knowledgeable community realize that "evil" is real?

It is frightening when the world community becomes so prissy that it can’t handle words like "evil" and "satanic" and "hellish."

I find that there are some conservative sites that shrink from my stark truth statements and therefore don’t post those articles. I wonder why. I thought that at least "conservative" meant confronting real-life facts and regarding truth as the all in all.

Yet there are some cowardly — and there goes another stark truth term — webmasters who can’t stand the heat.

They are more interested in protecting their sites than boldly strutting center stage where the battle rages. What kind of site self-protection is commendable when it is the globe that needs protection by posting the truth — numerous articles laden with truth truth truth?

If there is any one thrust this planet needs in this dangerous time it is factual writing and naked truth-telling.

Waffling won’t stand up.

It’s the same with the US Congress. Too often those members have become so frightened about facts and truth that they have provided the US public with nothing to be proud of.

I feel that is so with the present Congress.

Surely the Red States thought there would be more courage and strength from Congress than what we have been offered. We have been fed a weak Congress, frightened to the nth degree, and at times an utter embarrassment.

Where are the clear-headed leaders? Where are the striking orators? Where are those who have the insight to speak forthrightly that which will grip us to the soul?

They are surely missing in Washington. That is, except for Mr. Bush. And it is Mr. Bush that this editorialist for the Jerusalem Post applauds.

"EXPERIENCE, especially the 20th-century kind, shows that it is easier for democracies to defend themselves against the dangers of evil regimes in the first stages of their flourishing. Nazi Germany nearly conquered the world (and without the intervention of those uncouth Americans might have succeeded) owing to the failure to nip its evil in the bud.

"In this respect the uncouth have it right. There are High Noon-type situations in international relations, ones in which civilized peoples must stand up and be counted, facing off against evil and menacing regimes.

"This is the case with Iran which, if not restrained, may come to dominate the Middle East and, through its oil-acquired riches and future nuclear prowess, mortally endanger the West."


Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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Qur'an, Sura 9:5

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