tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post115383888417622517..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: What did he do with the real Richard Cohen?ambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1153881235436033252006-07-25T20:33:00.000-06:002006-07-25T20:33:00.000-06:00last two P's of COhen's"A Proportionate Response i...last two P's of COhen's<BR/>"A Proportionate Response is Madness":<BR/><BR/><BR/>"Readers of my recent column on the Middle East can accuse me of many things, but not a lack of realism. I know Israel's imperfections, but I also exult and admire its achievements. Lacking religious conviction, I fear for its future and note the ominous spread of European-style anti-Semitism throughout the Muslim world -- and its boomerang return to Europe as a mindless form of anti-Zionism. Israel is, as I have often said, unfortunately located, gentrifying a pretty bad neighborhood. But the world is full of dislocated peoples and we ourselves live in a country where the Indians were pushed out of the way so that -- oh, what irony! -- the owners of slaves could spread liberty and democracy from sea to shining sea. As for Europe, who today cries for the Greeks of Anatolia or the Germans of Bohemia?<BR/><BR/>These calls for proportionality rankle. They fall on my ears not as genteel expressions of fairness, some ditsy Marquess of Queensberry idea of war, but as ugly sentiments pregnant with antipathy toward the only state in the Middle East that is a democracy. After the Holocaust, after 1,000 years of mayhem and murder, the only proportionality that counts is zero for zero. If Israel's enemies want that, they can have it in a moment."<BR/><BR/>yeah,he's confused.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1153878201806549192006-07-25T19:43:00.000-06:002006-07-25T19:43:00.000-06:00why would "a country that shouldn't exist" concern...why would "a country that shouldn't exist" concern itself with "proportionate responses"?<BR/><BR/>i think he's confused,StY.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.com