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kairos12

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Wed Nov 18, 2015, 04:09 PM Nov 2015

"ISIS hits and the right goes wobbly" [View all]

This editorial is from the extremely conservative newspaper The Arizona Republic. Even they are appalled by the Right's cowardice.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2015/11/18/isis-paris-syria-refugees/75980774/
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A terror army sends a strike force to Paris to drive a dagger into the heart of Western Europe and liberal democracy. It attacks restaurants, a theater, a bar and soccer stadium, killing 129 civilians and leaving a proud nation numb with grief.

And in America, the conservative party reacts how?

It rolls up its sleeves with cold resolve and vows to crush the Islamic State.

No.

It runs shrieking to the doors with padlocks to keep any bad guys away from us.

To misquote Churchill: we will not fight them on the beaches, we will not fight them in the streets, rather we will keep out the most vulnerable members of a war torn society. We shall completely surrender...our values.
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