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A Lesson of the Bhutto Assassination
Watching the tragedy of Benazir Bhutto's assassination unfold Thursday should have provided a sobering reality check for everyone who bemoans the state of politics in this country. We can go on endlessly about how divided our electorate is, about how no one listens to anyone on the other side of the spectrum, but—while we may not be living in a golden age of debate—things rarely get more out of control than some stolen yard signs or missing Ws on the White House keyboards. I might not like it if Hillary Clinton gets to move back into the White House, and you might shudder at the thought of another GOP administration, but none of us are likely to take up arms or wish for the death of their ideological adversaries.
Except for maybe Dave Lindorff, who says, in a column that got play on Drudge and InstaPundit, that global warming and the accompanying rise in sea levels have a "silver lining." He's looking forward to the day (in a shorter time frame than I've seen cited by even the most alarmist environmentalist) when most of Red America is wiped out by flooding or drought. I wish I could write this off as the unhinged rantings of a fringe blogger, but Lindorff is, according to his Wikipedia page and the bio on the article, a two-time Fulbright scholar and a published author.
Before Lindorff next sits down at his keyboard and cackles to himself about how riotously hilarious he is for telling us backward bumpkins in the Midwest that we're gonna git what's comin' to us, he should pause and realize that dying for your political beliefs is a very real possibility in parts of this world, and that there's nothing funny or clever about it.
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