AmericanPapist Comments
Talk about chutzpah! Rice shows up in Lebanon after nearly two weeks of doing absolutely nothing to stop the violence there and arrogantly pats Saniora on the head. At this point the Arab world could be excused the perception that the loss of 300 civilian lives and the unimaginable destruction of real property throughout the country is the product of a joint US/Israeli offensive, so utterly complict are we in this sordid business right down to the ordinance involved. And as for your question about the liklihood of Rice being granted a papal audience, I think she's one mushroom cloud late for that kind of thing, don't you.
Oh yes, today's commentary:
http://johnlowellblog.blogspot.c...inst-
grain.html
John Lowell
Rice continues to inspire nausea. CNN has her as actually saying, "I am deeply concerned about the Lebanese". Sure she is, you just keep believing that.
John Lowell
Ah the musings of the perpetually indignant ...unless its Israeli lives and real property being destroyed at which point the perpetually indignant become the perpetually silent.
Talk about chutzpah!
btw John, I can't wait to read some of your anti-abortion writings on your 'Catholics for Life and Peace' blog.
Hi Steve,
A lot to be indignant about, Steve. For one thing, a government that compromises the security of everyone in the region - Israel's included - with it's craven obsequiousness toward one side in this seemingly never ending contretemps. We might even be able to help bring peace to the area if we had anything even remotely resembling balance in the conduct of our foreign policy.
And since I'm pleased to identify myself utterly with the view of this question brought last week by our Holy Father, Benedict XVI, I'm afraid that you'll have to level your charge of silence regarding the suffering of Israelis at him as well. Feel comfortable doing that? I wouldn't.
But if you're looking for something in the way of a hint as to how the blog might treat life questions, Steve, here's a piece I wrote a few months ago on certain aspects of the Bush stem-cell sell-out in 2001:
http://www.tcrnews2.com/Neuhaus2006.html
I think you'll find our position on life a bit more reliably Catholic than that of our Reich's Church friends.
John Lowell
Steve,
Thank you for your post. It seems clear to me that John -- although, I have to be honest, I haven't wasted any time over at his blogspot -- is one of those persons who ingests himself with CNN news reporting and the like and somehow dupes himself into thinking that he is "informed." He seems to be one of those persons who has memorized one side of the news stories, but has not actually done the heavy lifting work of thinking through them.
The thing that irritates me, though, is the arrogance with which he posts. But, then again, he would claim that I am being arrogant. In which case, I would just tell him to "go piss on a bug."
Every possible blessing, youwantchutzpah. :-)
John Lowell
My apologies to Thomas and the American Papist family, it seems John is a semi-professional Catholic blog troll. I should've known better to bite at the bait, but I did.
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