Wednesday, July 09, 2008

INTELLECTUALS LIE, THE POWERLESS DIE - New York Post

It's sad that such an obvious fact needs to be pointed out.    The world is full of windbags perfectly happy to allow the less fortunate to die at the hands of monsters as long as they can point out how horrific these acts are.

INTELLECTUALS LIE, THE POWERLESS DIE - New York Post

INTELLECTUALS LIE, THE POWERLESS DIE

Mugabe: Unmoved by hand-wringers.

Mugabe: Unmoved by hand-wringers.

By RALPH PETERS

Posted: 3:50 am
July 9, 2008

THE greatest lie intellectuals tell us is that "the pen is mightier than the sword." That's what cowards claim when they want to preen as heroes.

Billions of words have been hurled at Sudan's government. The misery in Darfur not only continues but deepens. While intellectuals wrestled with compound sentences, Darfur degenerated from selective oppression to savage anarchy.

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