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Genocide: the last hope of the left

Atrios of Eschaton (sounds niftily pseudo-classical, doesn't it?) is being silly again in writing

All this talk about Islamists, or whatever we're calling them this week, is quite interesting. It is only important to label and identify this groups if we are trying to understand just why it is they hate us.

Of course, Atrios is hoping for a "kill them all, God will know his own" reaction that will allow him to

  1. be safe, and
  2. allow him to whine about disproportionate response.

Unfortunately for his tender sensibilities, distinguishing Islamists from Muslims will allow us to make a non-leftist response against the guilty, rather than a good old-fasionable genocide a la Pol Pot.

Don't give up your hopes yet, though, Atrios.  Your blathering may yet move the discussion to the point where people see no difference between self-defense and genocide.

John "Akatsukami" Braue Sunday, June 16, 2002

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