{"id":1112,"date":"2008-05-14T21:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:09:14","slug":"wednesday-may-14-2008-steven-muhlberger-on-canadian-historians-romeo-dallaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, May 14, 2008 \u2014 Steven Muhlberger on Canadian Historians; Romeo Dallaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two inter\u00adest\u00ading items over at Muhlberg\u00ader\u2019s Ear\u00adly His\u00adto\u00adry.&nbsp;One dis\u00adcuss\u00ades the pecu\u00adliar psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy of Cana\u00addi\u00adan his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans who can\u2019t quite make them\u00adselves believe that Cana\u00addi\u00adan his\u00adto\u00adry is wor\u00adthy of being dis\u00adcussed in a world con\u00adtext, and, react to the thought with the tit\u00adters of Vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan spin\u00adsters spot\u00adting a naked bot\u00adtom. [ The French Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion and Cana\u00adda \u2014 laugh\u00adable?] .Then he dis\u00adcuss\u00ades Sen\u00ada\u00adtor Romeo Dal\u00adlaire\u2019s com\u00adments. blast\u00ading our gov\u00adern\u00adment for its hyp\u00ado\u00adcrit\u00adi\u00adcal and immoral pol\u00adi\u00adcy regard\u00ading Omar Khadar, the Cana\u00addi\u00adan child sol\u00addier long held at Git\u00admo against all stan\u00addards of law and decen\u00adcy. [Rule of law and human rights \u2014 only when con\u00adve\u00adnie\u2026]&nbsp;Spot on. I, too, looked on with dis\u00adgust as our moral\u00adly puny Sec\u00adre\u00adtary of State, Jason Ken\u00adney (Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive) gave a fatu\u00adous lec\u00adture on the nature of evil \u2014 to a man whose per\u00adson\u00adal knowl\u00adedge of geno\u00adcide, and whose eth\u00adi\u00adcal cre\u00adden\u00adtials stand as far above him as the Hub\u00adble Tele\u00adscope stands above an ant on the shore of the Dead Sea. When Mr. Ken\u00adney spout\u00aded the pre\u00addictable \u201cthe end jus\u00adti\u00adfies the means\u201d clap\u00adtrap beloved by scoundrels, Dal\u00adlaire looked him straight in the eye and said: \u201cIf you want a black and white, and I\u2019m only too pre\u00adpared to give it to you, absolute\u00adly. You\u2019re either with the law or now with the law. You\u2019re either guilty or you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two inter\u00adest\u00ading items over at Muhlberg\u00ader\u2019s Ear\u00adly His\u00adto\u00adry.&nbsp;One dis\u00adcuss\u00ades the pecu\u00adliar psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy of Cana\u00addi\u00adan his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans who can\u2019t quite make them\u00adselves believe that Cana\u00addi\u00adan his\u00adto\u00adry is wor\u00adthy of being dis\u00adcussed in a world con\u00adtext, and, react to the thought with&nbsp;the&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1112\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-as-blog-2008","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8540,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}