Ingratitude pisses me off
Posted by Deuce Geary on January 30th, 2009
Seriously. Nothing chaps my hide more than hearing someone whine when they should be down on their knees thanking God Almighty for their good fortune. Two wildly disparate cases in point:
1. Some of the passengers from U.S. Airways Flight 1549, about whom Rachel Lucas says, “Really people, you are embarrassing yourselves and you need to shut the cakeholes.”
2. A whole lot of the Muslim world, wallowing in victimhood and hating their benefactors, leading to Obama’s disgusting pandering, in which he adopts the mindset of the “victimized” Muslim world. Charles Krauthammer:
Is it “new” to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn’t just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya interview, insisting on the need to “restore” the “same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.”
Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years — the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world — America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved — and resulted in — the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The two Balkan interventions — as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) — were humanitarian exercises of the highest order, there being no significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on Earth. Why are we apologizing?
Why, indeed?
H/T: The Anchoress.
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There’s a bunch of interesting, if one sided, stuff along these lines over at sigcarlfred.blogspot.com Here’s a sample along the lines you’re talking about:
” . . . how is it possible that the humiliations of centuries of Arab failures are trumped by the political ‘humiliations of today? What powerful agenda can pull a whole society away from reality? How is it that the Arab nations, blessed with wealth that is obscene, are not humiliated that by the fact that as a group, they are among the poorest people on the face of the planet? How is it that there is no humiliation that in the Arab world, female illiteracy tops 50%? How is it that there is no humiliation that of all the thousands of children born in the Arab world today, few, if any, will ever experience freedom and democracy? How is it possible that a vibrant, democratic and free Israel, or the sight of American soldiers rebuilding schools and power plants causes more offense and outrage than over a century of documented Arab failure that was there for all to see long before Israel existed?”