I hadn't seen the President's speech until last night. It's amazing how George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four acheives verisimilitude as time goes on. I cannot begin, in this compendium, to refute the false premises and logical fallacies contained within his statements, especially considering that his statements contain only false premises and logical fallacies (with some nouns, a few verbs and some sparkling modifiers thrown in to cause the mixture to congeal).
But I will say this: the President says, "This struggle has been called a clash of civilizations. In truth, it is a struggle for civilization."
Anyone who believes that our country and our people are so feeble, our hold on national sovereignty so tenous that a few hundred or a few thousand crazed Wahhabis with explosives can drive our nation into perdition, must have a vile contempt for the American people.
Only Americans have the power to destroy this country. So, it is clear that there are those who hate America and have the power to destroy it--and we know who they are.
11 years ago
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