Friday, November 21, 2003

Mr. Lileks Learns About Ingratitude

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OTB summarizes reactions to Lileks’ post about Salaam Pax...no sir, Lileks doesn’t like him.

Lileks requires abasement from those he has helped, apparently...and is unable to see the irony in the righteous anger derived from reading about the deaths of _three_ of his fellow Minnesotans, who gave their _lives_ helping people who’ve suffered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their citizens, at the hand of a madman, and several thousand more deaths at the hands of their liberators. 

Are the Iraqis permitted melancholy?  Is a bittersweet taste not in their apple-pie deliverance?

Lileks demonstrates with those words that in his mind, each of those American lives was worth a few hundred, or a few thousand, Iraqi lives.  And when confronted with this observation, in his opinion, an Iraqi may not have outwardly say anything to an American other than “Thank you, Sir.  My Mother died in a bombing for us all, Sir.  My heart is full of joy.”

Sounds goddamn communist to me. 

Freedom of speech is a bitch, ain’t it?  Get used to the ingratitude.  There’s a lot more coming.

What, did you think that everyone would magically start liking you?  Grow up.


Posted by Ross on 11/21/03 at 10:36 PM
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