A 'cycle' on nonsense

Dr. Sowell answers Cohen a priori and bolsters my argument. I am humbled.

A few tidbits (hopefully Strother and others will read the entire article):

For reasons unknown, some people seem to regard verbal equivalence as moral equivalence -- and the latter as some kind of badge of broadmindedness, if not intellectual superiority.

Centuries ago, Thomas Hobbes said that words are wise men's counters but that they are the money of fools.

During all the years when Arab countries controlled the land now proposed for a Palestinian homeland, there was no talk about any such homeland. Only after Israel took control of that territory as a result of the 1967 war was it suddenly sacred as a Palestinian homeland.

I might also add that in 1947, when England was carving out the state of Israel, a self-ruled homeland was offered to and declined by Arab Palestinians (keep in mind, as well, that the original Palestinians were Jews).

Of all the Western democracies, only two have no choice but to depend on their own military forces for their survival -- the United States and Israel. The rest have for more than half a century had the luxury of depending on American military forces in general and the American nuclear deterrent in particular.

People who have long been sheltered from mortal dangers can indulge themselves in the belief that there are no mortal dangers. Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran or North Korea -- and, through them, in the hands of hate-filled terrorists -- may be all that will finally wake up such people. But that may be tragically too late.