A young black man dies from a police gunshot, and a community bursts into presumptuous anger as if it knows racism is afoot. That community contains rioters who are not sufficiently condemned by officials at any level, local, state or national. As images of tear gas clouds in suburbia subside, we are hit with fresh pictures of an Islamist monster beheading an American citizen while warning our President and our people that he and his brethren are just warming up. Attorney General Eric Holder responds by opening a criminal investigation, as if this were a stabbing on a Georgetown street. Accountability is dead. Long battered against the ropes, the concept of identifying and delivering consequences to the proper purveyors of various evils has been lost in a jungle of political correctness and racial paralysis. When accountability occurs in an atmosphere of clarity and certainty, our worst problems can get better. One of our worst national problems is artificially-heightened racial discord. One of our worst global problems is the threat of radical Islam. Progress is crippled in both arenas because of the inability, or lack of willingness, to reach proper conclusions about good guys and bad guys, and the lack of spine to deliver proper consequences to the bad guys.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:20:52 +0000