| | Adam Reed writes:
Diana Hsieh, whose web site referenced this article, has been very closely associated with ARI for the last two years. The news item is very recent, and the top ARI people, who had to backtrack hastily written pieces a couple of times before, have become more careful and now usually take some time to write about issues. Give them a few weeks.
As for TOC, I do not expect anything.
To begin with, I think TOC under Robert Bidinotto will probably address this issue first and best. But neither organization is likely to do so anytime soon, despite a desperate need.
This is a very old issue. Both Objectivist groups failed massively a long time ago. Right after 9/11, in a very ponderous way, George Bush and others decided very slowly to be exceptionally injust, unconstitutional, and lawless during this low level "war." There were countless "trial ballons" to forego normal legal procedures and rights protections on all kinds of related issues. Thruout, when the world looked for intellectual leadership, and could have been influenced, ARI and TOC were silent.
Even the legal blackholes of Abu Graib and Guantanomo were highly telegraphed -- planned way in advance. The current American federal government is very lawless, but openly and deliberately. In part government officials are quite shameless and malicious, but in large part they just don't know a better alternative.
In my judgement, the major motivation behind the majority of the jihadi insurgents in Iraq is American hypocrisy and injustice. These fiends hate us a lot because we're freedom-loving and virtuous. But they hate us most because we're injust and evil.
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