We’re all appalled by what happened to Nick Berg. But while some of us look at this crime and think my God, what have we gotten ourselves into?, others use it to stir up more hatred and violence. The belligerati have issued a giant sigh–or shriek–of relief as this horror competes for airtime with the prison torture scandal. See, they’re worse than us! They decapitate people for the crime of being foreign!
We only rape, shoot, and beat them to death for the crime of insubordination.
But there is also another difference between Us and Them. They are at home in Iraq; We (the imperial We) are not. The moral
So it is woman’s personal responsibility to be aware of the dangers of the world. But these young feminists today are deluded. They come from a protected, white, middle-class world, and they expect everything to be safe. […]
These girls say, “Well, I should be able to get drunk at a fraternity party and go upstairs to a guy’s room without anything happening.” And I say, “Oh, really? And when you drive your car to New York City, do you leave your keys on the hood?” My point is that if your car is stolen after you do something like that, yes, the police should pursue the thief and he should be punished. But at the same time, the police–and I–have the right to say to you, “You stupid idiot, what the hell were you thinking?”
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