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Mind, this is Chris Matthews’s personal view of what ‘sane’ people may have gleaned this week, when all hell surprisingly broke loose – for someone else. As an optimist, Matthews feels that lessons have been learned by those who can claim the title of ‘sane’ individual.
It appears that some of us have learned from the past. Take G.W. Bush’s method of hunting a terrorist. Paying Pakistanis for information leading to bin Laden was -ineffective. Fortunately saner heads recalled that the method functioned much like a bank machine for the ‘informants’ and as an early warning system for Osama. May we assume that the creator of the method was not ‘sane’ as we define the word?
My apologies, we are interested in this week, not the past with the exception of lessons learned. Many from the Right and the hinterlands want to see the gruesome photo of bin Laden plastered world wide. Matthews assumes, and I hope he is right, that most ‘sane’ people can foresee the harm this could do us. Alternately, Al Qaeda recruitment would be at an all-time high. If our mission is to recruit more radicals with hatred in their hearts, then it would be a brilliant plan to give Bubba ‘freedom to paste’ bin Laden’s altered photo in Facebook.
Ooh! another case in point, Sarah Palin, with her ‘wussyfooting’ remark. If she were the hunter she claims, we can assume that she would mount the terrorist’s head just as she has the other unfortunate creatures of the forest as her ghastly decor. Is that who we Americans are?
Fortunately, Chris Matthews thinks that Sister Sarah represents the quick to speak and slow to think, and that we – as a nation are better and more sane than that. Perhaps he can convince you!