evolution

Ron Rosenbaum:

To me the visit was about the necessity to bear some kind of moral witness against the evil represented by Ahmadinejad, whatever pseudo-sophisticated arguments are used deny responsibility to him for his regimes crimes or to treat him as open to Reason.

The new meme tries to frame it as being about “fear” of Ahmadinejad. No it’s not about fear, it’s about moral disgust, revulsion. The fear can be seen, rather, in the posturing of those super brave boyz who accuse those who have the clarity to express moral disgust and rejection as “fearful”. When in fact it’s their fear—that their super-sophisitcated white boy, think tank subsidized, wonk mentality with all its nuances is laughably impotent in the face of fundamentalist, theocratic fascist evil. And what’s equally laughable is their belief that their arguments, their rhetoric their desire above all for dialogue will make a differ[e]nce in a kumbaya way, to the victims of a theocratic Stasi-like state.

RTWT.