Much has been said about Ward Churchill over the past few weeks, but it seems as though many people still don’t know who he is. I know this because I’ve asked several people who he is, and they seem to think he’s a former Prime Minister of England.
No, that was Winston Churchill.
Ward is a college professor who wrote an essay after the September 11 attacks in which he compares the victims to Nazis. His exact words are that they were “Little Eichmanns.” Adolf Eichmann was one of Hitler’s top leaders and who was responsible for having millions of Jews transported to concentration camps during the Holocaust.
This might just be me, but I fail to see the analogy.
As for saying “Little Eichmann,” it sounds like he’s talking about a baby. “Awwww, look at the little Eichmann. You’re a cute little Eichmann. Yes you are. Yes you are. Who’s my little Eichmann?” Then you start blowing on their stomach.
I’m just glad that it wasn’t Churchill who was writing the analogy section on the SATs. Had he been, I might not have made it to college. September 11 victims : Nazis :: Great Bluedini Kool-aid : the Abba song “Dancing Queen.”
A big part of Churchill’s point is that 9/11 was just retaliation for the Gulf War, and that they were within their rights. He even says that the Iraqis waiting as long as they did was a “testament to their patience and restraint.” Throughout the essay, Churchill says again and again that Iraq was just getting us back.
This just in: We weren’t hit by Iraq on September 11, it was the Taliban. A mind-boggling zero of the 19 highjackers were from Iraq.
He makes it sound like it was solely Iraq, despite the simple fact that they had as much to do with the attack as I did (note: I had nothing to do with 9/11 or any other terrorist attack on America).
He says that the American people didn’t care about Iraqi civilians who died during Operation Desert Storm. As he put it, they were too concerned about “getting ‘Jeremy’ and ‘Ellington’ to their weekly soccer game.”
First things first, who in the world names their son Ellington?
Americans don’t care? We just donated over a billion dollars for Tsunami relief. We give more to charity than any country in the world. We’ve had wars, and innocent people in other countries have died, and that is unfortunate.
But what are we supposed to do? Contrary to what some people believe, some wars must be fought.
What some of the “peace-nicks” don’t seem to understand is that not everyone thinks like they do. You might want peace, and that’s great, but there are some people in the world who want you dead, who don’t want peace. And sure, it would be nice if we could all sit around the fire and sing “Somewhere over the Rainbow” but that’s not very realistic.
With all of that said, how dare Churchill say that America doesn’t care about human life?
Not only does he say that, but he says “we can appreciate the fact that they value life — all lives, not just their own — far more highly than [Americans].”
Terrorists go on suicide missions, and we don’t care about life? The people who actually carried out the 9/11 attacks (the Taliban not the Iraqis) have such a strict set of mores that women can be stoned to death for not having their faces covered in public, but we’re the ones who don’t care about life?
Americans might not be rioting in the streets due to every injustice that ever happens, but neither does the rest of the world.
It’s human nature to not live and die based on every news story you ever see. It wouldn’t be healthy.
Churchill says that the people in the towers who died “formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire — the mighty engine of profit.”
Churchill is talking about how the people were living for money, yet he’s speaking at colleges, and being paid thousands of dollars to do so; and he turned his essay into a book (which you can buy for the low price of $21.95) — well sich heil to you too Ward.
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