4 Replies to “Hate crimes, Oriana Fallaci, and the international left”

1. Christopher Taylor says:

   June 16, 2006 at 6:26 pm

   I dont know how well this fits in, but the vice-chair of the Democratic Party recently said on a radio interview that Zarqawi was “murdered.” Perhaps that is a hate crime, given that Arabs are a minority in the US?

2. Some Guy in Chicago says:

   June 16, 2006 at 9:33 pm

   I’m sure others do it, but every time I see the name Oriana Fallaci, I think it should be “Ariana’s Fallacy”, or “Huffington Post” in other words.

3. Pablo says:

   June 16, 2006 at 10:17 pm

   Read “The Rage and the Pride”. You’ll stop doing that immediately.

4. Darleen says:

   June 16, 2006 at 11:38 pm

   Some Guy

   Does this sound like Puffington’s host?

   To avoid the dilemma of whether this war should take place or not, to overcome the reservations and the reluctance and the doubts that still lacerate me, I often say to myself: “How good if the Iraqis would get free of Saddam Hussein by themselves. How good if they would execute him and hang up his body by the feet as in 1945 we Italians did with Mussolini.” But it does not help. Or it helps in one way only. The Italians, in fact, could get free of Mussolini because in 1945 the Allies had conquered almost four-fifths of Italy. In other words, because the Second World War had taken place. A war without which we would have kept Mussolini (and Hitler) forever. A war during which the allies had pitilessly bombed us and we had died like mosquitoes. The Allies, too. At Salerno, at Anzio, at Cassino. Along the road from Rome to Florence, then on the terrible Gothic Line. In less than two years, 45,806 dead among the Americans and 17,500 among the English, the Canadians, the Australians, the New Zealanders, the South Africans, the Indians, the Brazilians. And also the French who had chosen De Gaulle, also the Italians who had chosen the Fifth or the Eighth Army. (Can anybody guess how many cemeteries of Allied soldiers there are in Italy? More than sixty. And the largest, the most crowded, are the American ones. At Nettuno, 10,950 graves. At Falciani, near Florence, 5,811. Each time I pass in front of it and see that lake of crosses, I shiver with grief and gratitude.)

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