I felt that coming as soon as I reread my response. I didn’t mean that the son was our enemy; his father is, and that fact is integral here. We wouldn’t be talking about the son otherwise. Caring that the son might be offended by these silly dolls is tacit compassion for his father.
The information minister was a party to a regime that did terrible things to its people for decades. He gets no sympathy from me. The kind of person that his son has made himself into is irrevalent to me with regards to his father.
You know what? I feel sorry for him. Regardless of who his father was, He was still this guys father. I do feel compassion for him, because he dosent know if his father is dead or alive. Hell, I absolutely have nothing in common with my fathers politics, and believe me, my dad believes some very unsavoury things, but I would still be upset if I didn’t know if he was dead or alive.
The guy probably lives less than 15 minutes away from me. Hell, he could be operating on me if I ever have the misfortune to end up in Beaumont.
I just don’t like the assumptions that because his Father was a mouthpiece for a brutal regieme, but I’m not going to transfer blame for the actions of the reigime onto the guys son.
Feel free. I don’t have a problem with you having compassion for the guy. Telling those of us who don’t to fuck off is another issue.
Who’s blaming the guy for his father’s misdeeds? No one in this thread so far. The son isn’t even really at issue. Let me make it clear to possibly allay any further confusion:
Do I feel bad that a good person lost his father? Yes.
Do I feel bad that a good person is upset because his evil father is being lampooned? No, not really.
TwistofFate, are you reading the words in front of your face? I’m not criticizing this guy for (probably) hating America - I’m understanding him for (possibly) hating America. I think he has a right to hate America. I think he should hate America. I think, that if I should ever meet the man, and I find out that through some Dalai-Lama-like greatness of spirit he does not hate America, I would slap him in the back of the head and say "Hey! Stupid! Why you no hate America!?". OK? All clear?
Resolved: If Comical Ali is dead, Dr. Osama al-Sahhaf (who may or may not hate America) should pick up his father’s mantle and carry on the tradition of bizarre rhetoric and hyperbolic propagandizing.
…or he could at least incorporate bits and pieces into his own practice.
“The virus… it is fleeing from my medicine. No, it flees at the mere sight of the prescription. See! The virus is escaping from your rectum and committing suicide on the floor!”
“Your wound requires ten thousand, thousand stitches. I shall stitch the wound with miles of suture until I wrap it about your arm while a million nurses dance in celebration!”