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Jewish World Review Nov. 9, 2005 / 7 Mar-Cheshvan, 5766 The fine line between wooing and stalking By Tucker Carlson
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Q: Why do you think it's evil to kill Americans and it's not evil for Americans to kill Iraqis? 9/11 was evil, but so is the invasion of Iraq, probably more so.
— The Lizmeister
A: Are you for real? I have the feeling your e-mail is a prank, and you're a conservative provocateur trying to make a point about the dangerous absurdity of moral relativism. You can't really believe that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, misguided as it may have been, is a greater sin than the deliberate, unprovoked slaughter of thousands of civilians on September 11th. You don't really think that the death of an American Marine in Iraq is equivalent to the death of the Iraqi insurgent trying to kill him. If you really believed all that you'd be a living parody a hateful anti-American leftist. And I don't want to believe those exist.
Q: What's your opinion of calling a woman you've just met? All of my inexperienced friends say to wait two days, and I say that's absolute rubbish and you should call when you feel like calling.
— Anonymous
A: Your instincts are right: Call when you feel like it. But your friends are also onto something: Don't call too much. There's a fine line between wooing and stalking. More than three calls the first week crosses it.
Q: I share your frustration with senators who voted for the Iraq war authorization without asking the tough questions first. But I disagree with your characterization of senators as having "voted for the war." The Senate didn't vote "for the war" any more than a vote to give police officers guns is a vote for them to shoot people. The Senate voted to give the president a gun. The President is the one — the only one — who made the decision to shoot, which he did immediately after being handed the gun, despite all his talk of exhausting the inspections and using force only as last resort.
— Tom Bloom
A: I'll give you points for a clever analogy. But like most analogies (especially the clever ones), it's not very accurate. Yes, Bush pulled the trigger; he alone sent us to war. But he did so with the knowledge and the approval of Congress. Technically the vote was for "authorization," but no one in either chamber that day had any illusions: it was a vote for war, as those who voted against it loudly pointed out at the time. Everyone knew the invasion was coming, without or without Congress. The only question was whether individual members would support it. So to use your analogy, it was in fact a vote to shoot people. It drives me crazy that cowardly one-time war supporters are now trying to pretend otherwise. They'd be better off admitting the truth and apologizing.
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