Thank you for your lens of reason!

Submitted by Satyam Bendapudi (United States), Dec 28, 2002 at 16:10

Dear Mr. Pipes,

I have been on your mailing list for over an year now and I would like to take a minute to say thank you. Thanks for having the courage to call a spade a spade and to expose "educators" such as Eric Foner and Glenda Gilmore for what they are...proponents of irrationality and quintessential examples of the anti-mind...those who refuse to see what's directly in front of their own eyes.

I could not but help notice the difference in content between your article and their rejoinder. While your argument was made using very specific facts , theirs was made with palpable spite and the resentment of having their true position exposed....completely incompatible with their stated status of "researchers". A genuine researcher is supposed to deal with facts and to analyze them objectively...not vent the spleen at their opponents.

Their "rationale" for opposing a pre-emptive strike on Iraq is laughable, if it weren't so tragically, and absolutely wrong. It is the moral right of a free society to defend itself against ANY and ALL threats to its safety. A mugger is guilty of violence simply by pointing the gun...he does not have to pull the trigger to be declared guilty. I wonder if either of these professors would excercise "restraint" as long as the mugger just held the gun and did not fire it!

Just as a mugger does not have a "right to escape", a dictator does NOT have ANY sovereign rights. A dictator is what he is only because he has, first and foremost, destroyed the concept of rights and denied them to everyone. Such a person CANNOT make ANY legitimate claim to "national" rights, or "human" rights or "plebiscite". Such a monster should be taken out at the earliest possible opportunity.

Mr. Pipes, thank you for keeping the light of reason shining on issues related to the middle east. It is indeed reassuring to know that there is at least one person who is looking at the chaos that is the middle-east, and American foreign policy towards it, through the lens of reason.

Thank you,

Satyam Bendapudi

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