"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Fouled Nests
"Every society in the world which has invested in creating these networked killing movements (is the Jihad one of these?) has fouled its own nest. Now why should anyone care? Two reasons. The first is that the system may be transplanted to a Western society near you; and second, the spillover from this violence can manifest itself in things like say, 9/11." [ Of course the Jihad is one of these. Calling them 'societies' is looking far too charitable. And soon 9/11 will seem like the good old days... -ed. ]