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The Expansionist
Friday, May 20, 2005
 
Overreaction. I sent the following emailed letter to the editor of the New York Post today in response to a column about Newsweek's Koran-flushing booboo.

Commentators on Newsweek's apparent error in saying interrogators had flushed a Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo have missed the most basic point: people are not responsible for irrational and extreme reactions to what they say. President Fox of Mexico likewise said something that produced overreaction. He had the good sense to disown any responsibility for that overreaction. So maybe a Koran was not flushed down a toilet (I was wondering how you flush a book down a toilet to begin with). Maybe it was. Who cares? Moslems have really got to grow up and stop behaving like lunatics. As for those 17 fanatics killed in violent demonstrations, good riddance. The more dead fanatics, the happier the world.

(Responsive to "Market Failure", column by John Podhoretz in the New York Post, May 20, 2005)
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 1,630.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 4:06 PM




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