Posted by Dan Ewert : 10/08/2002 12:21:00 AM (Archive Link)
On a related topic, the U.S. has often been criticized by the liberal intellectuals for subsidizing certain dictators in the past… or so they say. They complain that America followed the SOB principle: he may be an SOB, but he’s our SOB. They claim that was bad, but what we do now is not bad, i.e. leave the SOB alone or contain him… as long as we’re not aiding him. It’s as if a man is beating a woman a few feet from you. It’s bad if you give him a baseball bat, but it’s perfectly ok if you just keep you and your bat to yourself… just don’t get involved. Isn’t it a greater sin not to use your superior bat against the man in order to free the woman?