Paul Harvey hearts genocide

So, Mr. Rove, you want to take a few quotes out of context from Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, and Moveon.org and use them to claim that liberals "offered understanding and therapy to our attackers"?  Maybe you should check the integrity of your own house first before you start throwing stones -- that glass isn't as shatterproof as you think.

Paul Harvey is broadcast six days a week on over 1200 radio stations.  His "News and Comment" and "The Rest of the Story" segments are staples on AM radio.  Imagine an elderly Limbaugh, and you've got Paul Harvey.

Fast-forward to 12:20 and listen to what he has to say about our actions post-9/11 (transcript below the flip for the audio-impaired).

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill said that the American people...he said, the American people, he said, and this is a direct quote, "We didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy."

That was his response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. That we didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy.

And that reminder was taken seriously. And we proceeded to develop and deliver the bomb, even though roughly 150,000 men, women and children perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With a single blow, World War II was over.

Following New York, Sept. 11, Winston Churchill was not here to remind us that we didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy.

So, following the New York disaster, we mustered our humanity.

We gave old pals a pass, even though men and money from Saudi Arabia were largely responsible for the devastation of New York and Pennsylvania and our Pentagon.

We called Saudi Arabians our partners against terrorism and we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in our silos.

Even now we're standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive, because we've declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies -- more moral, more civilized.

Our image is at stake, we insist.

But we didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy.

Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans.

Yes, that was biological warfare!

And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous.

And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.

And so it goes with most nation states, which, feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded, and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry and up and coming who are not made of sugar candy.

Hat tip to Eric Zorn at the Chicago Tribune.

Let's recap, shall we? After 9/11, liberals urged swift action against the perpetrators of the attack while warning (presciently) against betraying our most fundamental principles in the name of revenge.  Meanwhile, conservatives fantasized about torture and genocide.  

What's that you say, Karl?  Too harsh?  Painting with too broad a brush, am I?  A little late for that.  In the words of someone you might know, go fuck yourself.