The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
The Wall
I have mixed emotions on the Wall . It does have a parallel, although a weak one with the Berlin Wall; but that wall was to keep the people of East Germany IN. And, as Charles Krauthammer very deftly points out, this one is about keeping terrorists OUT and saving lives. This kangaroo court at The Hague is completely irrelevant, so far as I am concerned. President Bush took an oath that he would "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution..."; there is nothing in that oath about allowing US soverignity to pass to an American-envious, if not American-hating "World Court". And I do not see why Israel should feel any differently about it. If I were in charge of Isreal I would treat any rulings that this court makes against it (or against the United States or its Allies) the same way President Reagan treated the Air Traffic Controllers Union: complete and unyeilding dismissal. So the question must be posed: WWKD (what would Kerry do)? Would the special interests so key to the Democratic party allow unilateral support for Israel in this climate? I think not.
