"Mirroring" and Compromise

The CIA is the immune system of the country. It operates invisibly to kill invading threats.

I’m afraid, Mary, that if you have your way you will not be legal assistant to anyone, and neither will any of your daughters, sisters, mothers or aunts. Their job, and yours, will be to create male children, and succumb to whatever beatings, rapes and “honor killings” the men you create may feel entitled to at the whim of the moment. This is the inevitable outcome of having a president that attacks not the germs but the white blood cells. Obama is giving the American immune system AIDS.

When the subject of Obama as a “peacemaker” comes up, people like Mary seem to think that the answer is to be nice and talk to people and the problem will go away. This is known as “mirroring,” and it is the blind spot that most people bring to negotiations — the idea that our opponents want the same things we do. In Afghanistan we are dealing with an enemy who insists on praying to Allah multiple times a day, who believes that women are subhuman, that homosexuals be killed on sight (preferably by crushing them under falling walls — look it up) and that any criticism of Allah, his Prophet (PBOH) or his clerics is punishable by beating or death. That is their IRREDUCIBLE CORE BELIEF SYSTEM and for that they are willing to die. We, on the other hand, believe in fundamental human dignity for all, the right to worship or not as we see fit, the right of women and homosexuals to live lives as equal members of society, and the fundamental right to say whatever we damn well choose. Those in turn are OUR IRREDUCIBLE CORE BELIEF SYSTEMS for which SOME of us are willing to fight and die.

Bill Whittle of Eject, Eject, Eject and Pajamasmedia, is a master with words. Go read the rest.

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Excellent show at Pajamas TV from CPAC. Here's just some of the people on the show.

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Bill Whittle - Essayist of Eject, Eject, Eject! and host of the show

Michelle Malkin - Blogger babe, , Web/TV pundit

Deroy Murdock - Conservative columnist

Fred Thompson - Former, well, everything...and now, Talk Radio host!
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Robert Davi - Actor and Film maker

Alphonzo Rachel - MACHO SAUCE IS AT CPAC!

Glenn Reynolds - Instapundit

Stephen Green - Vodka Pundit

Joe Wurzelbacher - Plumber, journalist,

Bill Whittle, Sarah Palin, and the GOP

"For the first time, I feel like we deserve to win more than they deserve to lose."

Bill Whittle, the outstanding essayist of Eject! Eject! Eject! has spread his magic to, as he describes it, "the house that Buckley built."

He lays out the logic and feeling of many conservatives, writing eloquently, what we can barely express. Some snippets:

When John McCain was sewing up the nomination in the early spring, I spent a lot of time in many comment sections defending him in as many ways as I knew how...

Many conservatives were arguing that it would be better to sit this one out, and let the country go to hell, so that we could send the Republican party a message and re-emerge from the ashes in 2012 with “the next Reagan.” I pointed out that there were two problems with this theory:

First, you may not like the fact that Grandma smokes in bed, and you may indeed want to get her attention. But if that message consists of letting her set the bed, the house and the grandchildren on fire, perhaps there was a better way to “send a message.”

And so — prior to this week — all we had was a grim determination to vote against a dangerous, socialized vision of the future. We were portrayed — largely accurately — as old, tired, out-of-touch, out of ideas, out of candidates . . . too white, too male, too square. It doesn’t matter how true or false that caricature was. That was the narrative, and there was enough of it that fit.

And then the earthquake came.


Go read the rest. And check out his incredible essays. Buy the book.