re: #174 Killgore Trout

Hmmm, a lot of the new lefty lizards have a hard time discussing the facts when it comes to Israel.

Facts are often anathema to critics of Israel.

Far too many on the left engage in real cognitive redefinition when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians/Arabs.

If the Palestinians are somehow justified in their behavior, then Israel is somehow wrong for defending herself.

If the Israelis are really evil and cruel, the Palestinians must somehow be innocent victims.

That is why many on the left have to go to great lengths to deny reality. Oliver Stone wants to tell us Hitler and Stalin weren’t really so bad and that they were ‘misunderstood’. Consequently, we must have been in the wrong to despise Hitler and Nazis. The same applies to Stalin. If somehow the murder of 20 million plus Russians was merely ‘unfortunate’ then our revulsion of Communism was misplaced.

If evil can somehow be mitigated than good becomes relative as opposed to absolute.