Let’s just be honest

January 13, 2009 in Political Animals | No comments

M.J. Rosenberg, on the Death Of 250 Children in Gaza:

Let’s stop saying that we care about the killing of kids because we don’t. We care about the killing of children when the killing is perpetrated by our enemies. If the killing is perpetrated by us or our friends we can justify it. And we do.

Let’s do this.

Out of respect for the dead little ones, let’s stop saying we think killing kids is wrong. Let’s stop evoking World War II. Or Rwanda. Why lie? We only care about our own.

Just as they only care about theirs.

The next time you see anyone pontificating on the need to do something “for the children”, ask them where they stood on the killing of the children in Gaza.

UPDATE 01/13/09 3:26 PM EST: Right on cue, Van Helsing at Moonbattery provides us with a living example of this, working extra hard to demonize Palestinian children. That way, it’s perfectly acceptable to kill them — right, Van Helsing?