In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, โWhy aren't we killing people yet?โ And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a โforceful response,โ โdecisive actionโ ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.
Jonah Goldberg[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
Jonah GoldbergI think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.
Jonah GoldbergIn crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
Jonah GoldbergLiberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.
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