Goldstone Report

Goldstone’s retraction is only important in that it indicates a change in trend from politically correct to politically factual. The fact is that we can destroy or support foreign dictators, we can arm them and fund them, we can kill their terrorists, and subvert foreign organizations, but we can’t change a people’s culture.
We can’t save them from themselves. Members of Hamas and Fatah who deify terrorists who kill Israeli civilians, Afghani peasants who kill woman who reject arranged marriages, and who kill U.N. workers because someone in the United States burned a Koran, Pakistanis who kill other non-Muslims and other Muslims because they are not sufficiently Islamic, and of course Saudis who legally kill gays and stone women for adultery will not be changed by not recognizing their barbarity, by our being nice to them, or by allowing them to immigrate to our country. We can help them physically but not mentally. We can’t stop them, either in their own countries, or as Canadian immigrants, from acting out the social requirements of their cultures.

Goldstone’s retraction is at best an acknowledgement of this fact and that his political
correctness blinded him to the truth.