Letters to the Editor
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Fools and Idiots Unite!
So anyone who questions the killing of innocent people in Lebanon is now a F'ing fool, idiot, blah, blah, blah.
Ozzy makes Hizbullah look pretty damn good, with that charming argument. Gee, I'm really reconsidering my liberal, humanist point of view, now that I see that the only truth is his truth.
How can such hate ever be an acceptable point of view? How can such extremism be an acceptable alternative to another extremism? Who wants to live in either world being proposed? Total domination. Total war. Total tyranny.
The alternatives represented by Israeli and Hizbullah extremists are not the only alternatives. Those who stand for peace, stand for the that idea, first. Isolating and condemning extremists of both stripes must be the next step. Finding those other alternatives and putting them effectively into practice is, at last, the only way to ensure a future worth inhabiting.
This is a messy business, full of difficulties and subtleties that mere vitriol and hate cannot comprehend, much less resolve.