While searching around for more
news and pics on the discovery of a bizaar looking creature in Southern Texas that some people think is the mythical Chupacabra, I chanced upon a column by Jim Forsyth, a San-Antonio-based radio reporter.
^^Chupacabra: new species or mutant beast?
^^Jim Forsyth: an award winning reporter?
The theme of the
column was the racist nature of the anti-war movement. As I continued reading, I couldn't help but be taken aback by his conclusions. They were so far off and convoluted that it got me wondering. After all, Forsyth is an
award-winning journalist. In fact according to the bio:
[Jim Forsyth] is a correspondent for ABC radio news, a reporter for CBS radio news, and the south Texas correspondent for the Texas State Network. He is also the south Texas correspondent for the Reuters News Service, a reporter for United Press International, and a news-talk columnist for Radio Business Report magazine. Jim was named the best radio reporter in Texas three straight years by the Texas Associated Press.
All these credentials and yet look at the clearly wacko reasoning in his column:
But in 1975, we were told by the anti war crowd that, after all, they were only Asians, they probably couldn't understand democracy anyway, and knew it wouldn't work 'for them.' Its sad to see the same attitude repeated today, that its not worth the blood of white Americans like Casey Sheehan to win freedom and democracy for 'those people,' in this case, brown skinned Arab Muslims.
I'm not sure where to begin with this one....believing Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction is "drinking every last drop of the anti war Kool Aid"? Isn't that just the, erm, truth?:
Even if you drink every last drop of the anti war Kool Aid, even if you are convinced that President Bush was ordered by the Chairman of Halliburton to start the Iraq war and that he intentionally lied to the American people about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the simple fact is that today, there is demonstrably more freedom for the people of Iraq and for the people of Afghanistan, some 50 million brown skinned Muslims.
The insurgency has only killed 25,000 Iraqis? Is this some parallel universe of which he speaks?? And what is this obsession with use of the adjective "brown skinned"? Isn't that an embarrassing Bushism? And why does Forsyth hate dashes?:
So Saddam and his goons killed an average of 60,000 people a year, while the insurgency has killed 25,000 in two and a half years. Despite the hand-wringing over the insurgency, the devil's arithmetic would indicate that life for the average Iraq is actually safer today than it was under Saddam. But they're brown skimmed Muslims, so not worthy of America's notice, let alone America's sacrifice.
Uhh, Jim, there may be a few Iraqis who'd like to debate you on this comment. And last I checked, Iraqis while perhaps not as free as Americans under Sadam weren't SLAVES. Slight difference there, bub:
President Bush is actually the greatest liberator of Muslims in history, considering that there weren't 50 million people in the entire MIddle East when Saladin beat back the Crusader hordes. But to the anti war activists, providing freedom from slavery, democratic and economic opportunity to brown skinned people isn't worth the sacrifice of white Americans. Good thing they weren't around when Lincoln was drafting the Emancipation Proclamation.
And now for his grand conclusion--next stop, Rwanda!! And while the title might have been about the racist nature of Cindy and her friends, I still have no clue how he draws that conclusion:
If Cindy Sheehan were to get her way, and President Bush would be 'impeached and tried for war crimes' over his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as she has demanded, the real losers will be the future citizens of Rwanda, and the other places where brutal dictators will have free reign to massacre people in large numbers, knowing that American leaders will pay too high a political price for them to get involved and 'do something.' And I don't think many of those places will be populated by white Europeans.
Strange, right? And then I got to thinking and my thinking got me to googling, and I discovered, lo and behold, San Antonio--where Forsyth is based--is a located a mere 101.8 miles from Coleman, Texas, currenting resting place of the recently discovered Chupacabra.
I don't know about you, but it might be time to alert, uhh, the press, or wait, find someone, ANYONE, who hasn't suffered from what is clearly some type of contamination that seems to be capable of turning humans into Republican pod people and animals into ugly mutants?? For the sane Texans that are left, can you hear me???