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July 28, 2006
Crimes against chastity
Far from me writing from the Shire to tell Gondor how to defend civilization but I would have imagined the U.S. Army had more pressing concerns than the Great War On Community Theater.
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On Dec. 2, investigators formally interviewed Copas and asked if he understood the military's policy on homosexuals, if he had any close acquaintances who were gay, and if he was involved in community theater. He answered affirmatively.
It is difficult to begin to articulate how self-evidently shortsighted and immoral is this treatment not only of Copas but of the other fifty-four proficient Arabic speakers dismissed under the same policy. Their private lives might arguably provide a profound incentive to defend liberty against the death cultists who, amongst other things, get tangled up in arguments over whether gay men should be thrown from walls or have walls toppled upon them. But lest pointing out the obvious bring charges of equivocation, I should also point to some of the latest news from the Republic of Gilead. Two years following her death, details have emerged about Atefah Sahaaleh; a sixteen year old girl who had been repeatedly raped and ultimately murdered for her "crimes against chastity" in Iran. At a minimum she deserves not to be forgotten. It would be a better testament to her life and death if citizens of representative democracies - on the right and on the left - got their damned priorities straight.
Rhymes with Nasrallah Update: Bryan and various dumb ass commenters at Hot Air have a humour break-down upon viewing some Lebanese women on video. Note to Hot Air: When attractive young women call a clerical fascist twerp "Mozarella" and get it on with the belly dancing they are mocking said clerical fascist and his worldview. Quick with the Jamba Juice jokes, Michelle Malkin does not get it either. The socons are obviously still suffering from an irony deficiency.
Why we fight Update: Rachel Papo photographs Israeli women soldiers as work toward her Master's degree. Warning: Includes smoking imagery (via the Jawa Report).
Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 28, 2006 08:47 AM
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Lebanese women? Perhaps, but the street they're driving on is in Canada (see the big honkin' Petro-Can sign about sixteen seconds into the video).
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at July 31, 2006 12:58 PM
Sorry, that's my Ottawa Valley colloquialism interfering with my ability to make sense. I should have said "Lebanese-Canadian" or, as they called themselves at my junior high, "Lebs"!
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at July 31, 2006 01:00 PM
I finally took a look at the Hot Air video. It sure looked like they were making fun of Mozarella. Hot Air updated with this (who knows when):
"Update: I’ve heard from one of the young ladies in the video. Two are Persian, one is Lebanese. And at least two of them do think highly of Hezbollah."
Of course, that doesn't mean their not just playing for laughs.
Posted by: chaika at July 31, 2006 11:04 PM
Oh man. I can't believe I just did that. "They're", not "their". I'm so sorry.
Posted by: chaika at July 31, 2006 11:14 PM
It could easily be that I have got it wrong and that I owe Bryan, the Hot Air commenters and Michelle Malkin an apology. I am certainly much less optimistic about our prospects - and by "our" I mean civilization - than I was a few days ago. And yes, it could be these are just Barbies having fun with not a sense in the world just how nasty it is for their sisters elsewhere. Though if they are mistaken in that it is an opinion they share with most of the elites of the Western world.
I am beginning to think we could lose.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at July 31, 2006 11:16 PM
I guess we could lose. It's bound to get a helluva lot uglier. It'll take some serious ugliness before the West gets serious about this whole mess. This is one of those things that would be fun to look back on 500 years from now.
But on the bright side, how bad can it be when such beautiful girls are over there in Israel with such beautiful guns?
Posted by: chaika at July 31, 2006 11:29 PM
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