Dan Miller writes about the difficulty of having honest discussions about racism and peace.
When all sides seek to discourage racism, racism can cease to be a significant factor in society. When many want to discourage racism while many others try to foment it, racism will persist until those who want to end racism reject, en masse, those who foment it. Those arguing for “peace” in the Middle East while actively preventing it, and those who claim to want to end racism while actively exacerbating it, seem to be doing their utmost to prevent their publicly stated goals from being achieved.
On the prospects for peace in the Middle East, Barry Rubin writes,
The PA doesn’t want to make peace since any actual concessions will make it appear to be a traitor and will bring a counter-offensive from Hamas. Since it doesn’t even represent the territory it claims—it has no power over the Gaza Strip and has no prospect of getting any—the PA cannot make any binding commitment at all. And it is watching as the battle for Syria is going on next door. That would give it a radical neighbor—the United States is supporting it—which will deem a peace agreement as null and void.
On the subject of racism, Bill Whittle has the last words.
Dan Miller also posts this cartoon, but doubts that Obama ever leads anything from the front.
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