An equal and opposite reaction - 1 comment

Just to prove that 'moderate' is a mere step away from 'extremist', and that looking like a recruitment consultant really does make you an enemy of all things human, yet another CiF post that spirals into madness towards the end, with two choice sentences:

Targeting and killing innocent people is wrong whether done by terrorists in London or via the illegal occupation of another country.

That sly little via. Who knows what horrors could conceivably occur at the end of a road that begins with the illegal occupation of another country? But I'm not buying that: I'm going to suggest the most reasonable interpretation is that the two possibilities must occur at the same time, at the same distance along their respective paths. That is, we're really being asked to compare 'targeting and killing innocent people' with 'illegal occupation of another country', and if Mr. Masroor feels this is debatable, how seriously can we take his earlier, less equivocating statements?

Don't think too hard, for this corker is just a full stop away (my link added):

To quote Sir Isaac Newton's definition of the laws of physics, our actions in Iraq must have equal and opposite reactions - our policies in the Middle East will haunt us for centuries and that is the price we will have to pay for our misguided former prime minister.

As they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I think B4L's readers are intelligent enough to see the essential difference between fundamentals of mechanics and physics on one hand, and human decision-making on the other. It's something most of us have an innate feel for as we look up at the bars of our cots, and which all too many dangerous idiots train themselves to deny.