In Case You Missed This Last Week

From last Wednesday's Mark Steyn column a refresher and exclamation point on last weeks tragic and hopefully not soon to be repeated week at Virgina Tech. Steyn as usual has it right when hew says that we are turning into and turning out a society filled with people that cannot or will not fight back when evil appears at their doorstep.

For this country to remain the beacon of freedom and hope to the world, that fighting spirit had better return as evil in the form of Radical Islam is knocking loudly at the door ready to take it away from societies unwilling to fight back, that you can take to the bank or oasis.

Mark Steyn on Virginia Tech

National Review Online: "haven’t weighed in yet on Virginia Tech — mainly because, in a saner world, it would not be the kind of incident one needed to have a partisan opinion on."But I was giving a couple of speeches in Minnesota yesterday and I was asked about it and found myself more and more disturbed by the tone of the coverage. I’m not sure I’m ready to go the full Derb but I think he’s closer to the reality of the situation than most. On Monday night, Geraldo was all over Fox News saying we have to accept that, in this horrible world we live in, our “children” need to be “protected.”

Point one: They’re not “children.” The students at Virginia Tech were grown women and — if you’ll forgive the expression — men. They would be regarded as adults by any other society in the history of our planet. Granted, we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are “children” if they’re serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi....continued

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