Ives: Oppressed by the Conspiracy!
Written on July 31, 2005
Susan Ives has officially declared herself to be an oppressed minority held down by the vast conspiracy of liberal-hating news columnists:
I finally figured out that there is a big boy columnist club and I am not a member. You know who I’m talking about: writers with expense accounts, research assistants and 401(k) plans. East Coast guys.
I suspect they meet on the Metroliner club car, zooming between TV appearances in New York and Washington. Somewhere around Trenton, N.J., one of them pronounces over a glass of Amtrak chardonnay, “Terrorism is murder; understanding is complicity.” They all tap it out on their BlackBerry handhelds and breathe sighs of relief that next week’s columns are done.
Wow. She then goes on to say that suicide bombing is, well — not murder.
To treat terrorism as murder implies that a suicide bomb attack is exactly the same as a drive-by shooting or a mugging gone wrong.
Well yeah. Just because the end results are the same — you know, mutilated, mangled bodies, and innocent victims dead or left grieving for the dead — doesn’t mean anything, does it? They are two completely different acts. One is motivated by hatred and contempt for the victims, the other involves strapping bombs to your chest.
Or is it the other way around?
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