A friend of mine has a daughter who is a beautiful, bright young woman whose life should be a time of adventures and opportunities opening up to her. Instead, her life is full of fear, despair and darkness because she has spent the last four years of her life with a guy who beats her horribly for any perceived wrong she has done.
My friend begs and pleads with her daughter to leave the bum and to file charges. But her pleadings are fruitless. This young woman irrationally believes that she is part of the problem: If she would just be a better mate, if she would just think before she spoke, if she would be more careful about the kind of emotions she shows on her face – if … if … IF.
Calling “evil” a “communications failure” is to blame victims!
A fundamental tenet of the values revolution foisted on this culture by the left in the ’60s was the absurd denial of evil, replacing it with the naive belief that all human conflicts are a result of communication difficulties that are the fault of both parties. However, in the face of women and children abused by sick men, this belief that all conflicts are the responsibility of both parties is patently absurd.
Yet, many family members will tell an abused mate that she needs to try harder, she needs to avoid doing things that upset the man, she needs to show more love to the man. This is sick! No, what she needs to do is to recognize evil as evil and to put as much distance as possible between herself and this source of evil in her life.
Tragically, this is what we do with Israel regarding Palestine.
Tragically, this left-fostered naivete that all problems in relationships are merely communication problems is what our government and the Bush administration are foisting upon Israel as it tries to deal with the Palestinian Authority. This is sheer stupidity that will only extend the torment.
The parties broke up in 1946. The “man” was given the house and all the property, which became the Palestinian state known as “Jordan” (an abbreviation for the “trans-Jordan region of Palestine). The “woman” was given a small efficiency apartment called “Israel.”
But the man won’t quit stalking the woman, beating her up and stating his raison d’etre is to destroy the woman and to take back the efficiency apartment. The more the woman tries to appease the man, the more the man says it is proof of her guilt and increases his assaults on the woman.
Nevertheless, guided by the left, the solution of recent American administrations – as well as the United Nations – has been to insist that both parties have to try harder, and the woman in good faith needs to give up her living room and kitchen. The man says he will then discuss whether or not he should continue to attempt to kill her, all the while laughingly telling his friends at every opportunity about how he is going to rape and kill the woman.
Amazingly, this poor woman has tragically followed the left’s counsel and has given up much of her efficiency apartment to the man. Yet he keeps breaking into her bedroom, stabbing her repeatedly and trying to kill her. And as she fights to fend him off, the world media wags its head at the “unending cycles of violence” and asks the woman to show good faith by giving up her bedroom and moving entirely into the bathroom.
This is beyond sick – it is a despicable evil that must end.
This is a sick, despicable, immoral participation in evil that is beyond comprehension. Talk about peace through compromise at this point is merely to participate in immeasurable evil, stupidity and cruelty. It is time for the silly talk to end. If there is any decency in the onlookers, we will reassure the woman that we will no longer allow the man to attack her.
And the next time the man breaks in, we will stand in front of the woman and dispatch the creep ourselves. For the only way to deal with unremitting evil is to put an end to it. Then, some degree of justice will be restored into the woman’s life, and peace will finally return to the estate and its neighbors. And the world “will be a better place” indeed.
Don Crawford, is a radio talk-show host in Austin, Texas.
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