Neville again
Mark Steyn:
"A neighbour of mine refuses to let her boy play with 'militaristic' toys. So when a friend gave the l'il tyke a plastic sword and shield, mom mulled it over and then took away the former and allowed him to keep the latter. And for a while, on my drive down to town, I'd pass Junior in the yard playing with his shield, mastering the art of cowering more effectively against unseen blows.
"That's how the 'peace' crowd thinks the West should fight terrorism: eschew the sword, but keep the shield if you absolutely have to....
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"For more than a week now, American friends have asked me why 3/11 wasn't 9/11. I think it comes down to those two words you find on Holocaust memorials all over Europe: 'Never again.' Fine-sounding, but claptrap. The never-again scenario comes round again every year. This very minute in North Korea there are entire families interned in concentration camps. Concentration camps with gas chambers. Think Kim Jong-Il's worried that the civilised world might mean something by those two words? Ha-ha.
"...'Never again' has evolved to mean precisely the kind of passivity that enabled the Holocaust first time round. 'Neville again' would be a better slogan."
Mark Steyn:
"A neighbour of mine refuses to let her boy play with 'militaristic' toys. So when a friend gave the l'il tyke a plastic sword and shield, mom mulled it over and then took away the former and allowed him to keep the latter. And for a while, on my drive down to town, I'd pass Junior in the yard playing with his shield, mastering the art of cowering more effectively against unseen blows.
"That's how the 'peace' crowd thinks the West should fight terrorism: eschew the sword, but keep the shield if you absolutely have to....
...
"For more than a week now, American friends have asked me why 3/11 wasn't 9/11. I think it comes down to those two words you find on Holocaust memorials all over Europe: 'Never again.' Fine-sounding, but claptrap. The never-again scenario comes round again every year. This very minute in North Korea there are entire families interned in concentration camps. Concentration camps with gas chambers. Think Kim Jong-Il's worried that the civilised world might mean something by those two words? Ha-ha.
"...'Never again' has evolved to mean precisely the kind of passivity that enabled the Holocaust first time round. 'Neville again' would be a better slogan."
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