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Ann's taking flak lately from many Conservative bloggers I admire for her remarks at CPAC. The remark many are discussing is:
Rag-head talks tough, rag-head faces consequences.
There're two parts of this I'd like to discuss. One is the use of the phrase "rag-head." I'll get to that in a minute.
The other is the assertion of the key strategy that, when your enemy attacks you, that enemy must face consequences. At this time Islamofascists are literally threatening to kill Westerners for the use of free speech, and it is of great value to impose consequences on them for doing so. Ann is 100% correct in this. (See this recent post for similar views by Victor Davis Hanson). And, of course, no Conservatives I have seen so far have specifically objected to this assertion in criticizing Ann's remarks.
This leaves the use of the phrase, "rag-head," which many are specifically criticizing. First of all, this shows again how fantastic Western culture is vs. Sharia culture. In Sharia culture, they kill women and children, and few expresse any outrage at all. In Western culture, the mere use of a pejorative phrase to refer to those same killers, evokes protests.
Ann is just showing us how to win. Don't be concerned with the feelings of the people who are trying to kill us, is what she's saying. Offend their feelings purposely, as an immediate consequence of the death threats they make to us. It's all good, sound strategy.
Would I use the same phrase, or a similar one? I would not, because I feel widespread use of such phrases could lead to rabble-rousing and senseless mob behavior; this is very likely the same view held by Ann's critics.
But I see Ann as having things in common with Joan of Arc. She's a leader. She wants the free world to win against the Islamofascists who want to destroy it. We don't have to turn into a rabble, a senseless mob, to achieve that; but offending the feelings of those Islamofascists is not only not to be avoided -- it is also a reasonable part of a successful strategy.
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Is the goal of America to win? Whatever happened to "Love Thy Neighbor"? Whatever happened to America as a peace-keeping superpower? Whatever happened to "peace not war"? If Ann is showing us how to win, I'd rather have our president show us how.
The big difference between Ann and Joan; Joan was willing to die for her beliefs. Somehow I couldn't picture Ann being able to do that.