Michelle Malkin almost nails it
I am not much of a Michelle Malkin fan. When I saw that she had written a book defending the Japanese-American internment in World War II, the phrase that came to mind was “defending the indefensible.” Nevertheless, she came very close to hitting the target with her column on Obama and the Middle East crisis:
If only Obama had mustered half as much energy and outrage at the homicidal Islamic plotters in Benghazi as he shows in his tirades against the Tea Party, the Koch brothers, conservative talk radio, Fox News, House GOP budget reformers, or GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan.
Malkin doesn’t quite come right out and say it, so I will: Obama acts this way because Obama judges the Republicans to be a greater threat to his power than the Islamists.
And that makes it imperative that America elects Romney in November. Though, frankly, even my pet dog would be a less dangerous choice than Obama.
“Lord Vader, I am presently not otherwise occupied and I have some experience in such matters.” Let’s not push it. Your Majesty.
Filed under: Deseret Review,There are monkeyboys in the compound | Tags: appeasement, Michelle Malkin, Middle East, Obama
Bookslinger
September 14, 2012
Just as an aside, the popular narrative about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII is missing essential facts, just as the popular narrative about Joe McCarthy. When those essential facts are known, one realizes that the two popular conclusions based on those two popular narratives are indeed false.
Michelle was right about the internment affair, much as Ann Coulter was right about McCarthy, regardless of the degree of apparent political incorrectness. Oftentimes the truth is not politically correct, nor is political correctness often truthful.
Related aphorism: The fact that the innocent suffer along with the wicked does not excuse or deny the existence of the wicked.
Vader
September 14, 2012
There is a case to be made for McCarthy’s fears of Communist infiltration, though I’m not sure Ann Coulter is the most qualified person to be making the case.
I cannot concede any case for the Japanese-American internment, because I consider such a mass internment wrong in principle, regardless of the level of threat from a minority within that community. And it was a minor threat from a very small minority.
Agellius
September 17, 2012
Have you read Coulter’s case for McCarthy? I think a lot of people tend to dismiss her because she’s so polemical. But generally I think she reasons well and documents her assertions.