I'm not asking you, I'm telling you...
Just before I left last night I noticed, but did not click on, a Drudge link called something like "journalist beaten by crazed Pakistani mob." Who was this mystery journalist? To my surprise, it turned out to be Robert Fisk! I'm sorry he got hurt, but I have to confess to a kind of guilty, uh, "appreciation," of the remarkable coincidence that of all possible people to beat up, this particular mob just happened to select one of the most prominent proponents of the "America is to blame for 9/11" argument.
Fisk remains true to his "principles," at any rate, with the same consistent, pathological reaction no matter whether the target is the World Trade Center or his own head:
I later found out that the village housed lots of Afghan refugees, whose relatives had been killed just last week in the American bombing of Kandahar. It doesn't excuse them for beating me up, but there was a real reason why they should hate Westerners... If I had been them, I would have attacked me.
Yes, some sort of attack on Mr. Fisk, was, alas, inevitable, the logical and predictable result of hundreds of years of Western malfeasance. (Goak here.)
"If I had been them, I would have attacked me." Would he really? Can it really be that Fisk's vision of the proper rules of moral conduct is to give anyone who feels aggrieved free rein to attack and try to kill any random person who resembles the people they feel have done them harm? I've never seen a clearer example of the affinity between the theory of the leftist apologist and the practice of the suicide bomber.
Posted by Dr. Frank at December 9, 2001 08:20 PM | TrackBack