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HEROISM, hamstrung. It’s almost as if people have been paralyzed….
Instapundit —
HEROISM, hamstrung. It’s almost as if people have been paralyzed.
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Daily Pundit —
davidthompson: Heroism, Hamstrung
This is the essence of intellectual elitism. “I care deeply about . I will write about how noble my sentiments are. Now give me your money and just accept my superiority.” In the end, there is not a single university that has done as much to advance freedom as any platoon sized unit of the US military. Intellectuals think that we can dispose with force, usually until the barbarians burn them alive in a bonfire of their own books.
Posted by: Ken Hahn | January 05, ...
The paternalism of rescue
Joanne Jacobs —
... of Westerners trying to rescue Muslim women, which is “especially pernicious in the context where someone has been methodically and institutionally disempowered.” Rescue “unfortunately continues the pattern of disempowerment.” I happen to care a great deal about the oppression of women, in Afghanistan and everywhere else in the world. . . . (But) it is not our job, as westerners — as outsiders — to specifically fight to improve the lot of Afghan women. David Thompson notes the self-indulgence of this argument: Well, one might argue against military intervention on an ...
“Fight like men”
Cold Fury —
... . And while we’re laughing at self-serving milksops who can rationalize away any act of craven cowardice (or, as in this case, not acting at all) as “heroic,” let’s not forget our noble friends on the Left , who are all for “fighting injustice” and upholding their “principles” — just so long as it doesn’t actually involve, y’know, doing anything meaningful beyond bravely mouthing a few useless platitudes. (Via ...
