David Warren On Psychosis
Today in David Warren World, David Warren tells us who's psychotic:
Here's long David Warren referring to Israel's decision to trade five Hezbollah POWs (to use a never used term when referring to Arab prisoners of war) for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in battle (which is to say, "murdered by terrorists") - with which he disagrees because it "costs" too much:
It is right to recover the bodies. But at what cost? This is something the postmodern mind, which I find increasingly unhinged, is incapable of processing. (...blahdittyblahblah...) Whether we are dealing with indifferent small purchases -- when, as the Yorkshireman says, "You can't have [both] the penny and the bun" -- or with huge political transactions touching everyone -- the cost of what we propose must be calculated.
Now here's shorter David Warren:
(Postmodern minds in David Warren's head talking) "You cannot put a price on [insert pipedream here]!" (Pipedream in this case being Israel's recovery of the bodies of two soldiers) - To which David Warren responds: Yes you can. In this world, you can put a price on anything.
Okayyyyy. Now here's one of the traded POWs of the "savage and uncivilized polity" Hezbollah:
"To tell you the truth, we envy our enemies -- the way they care for a body and will go to the end of the world in order to get it back." He added that, reading in jail, he had come to feel, by comparison, the "disregard for human beings' value in Arab countries," mentioning specifically Egypt's indifferent attitude towards its own soldiers, missing in action.
Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger...
