[Bitpig] I Was Wrong

brucelewis.com ^ | 2006.11.22 | Bitpig [B-Chan]

[B-Chan]

Please keep in mind that my opinions on a given topic are subject to constant re-evaluation. I have been wrong in the past about a great many things, and my current or future opinions may be in error as well.

[Terpfen]

No, you were right. Now you're wrong.

[Torie]

You must be a Plato-bot.

[Torie]

We shall see how long this insanity lasts in News-activisim. :)

[the_Watchman]

You're giving him the benefit of the doubt. I suspect he was wrong both times! :)

[jiggyboy]

I've come to many of these conclusions over the past couple of months. There can be no other reason that the forces of the U.S. are fighting house-to-house month after month in what can only be described as a stalemate.

[jveritas]

Since you are so pessimistic then may be it is time for you to commit suicide since we cannot win at all; not now and not in the future according to your silly analysis.

[RichInOC]

As a monarchist, I am often asked "What happens if you end up with an evil or incompetent king?" My reply is "What happens in a republic if you end up with an evil or incompetent people?" In each case the result is chaos, dissolution, and ultimately anarchy. In a monarchy the solution is at least within human reach. After all, an evil or incompetent king is only one man, with a head that can conceivably be chopped off. But how does one chop off the head of The Sovereign People?

One head at a time, my friend. One head at a time.

[DB]

It is simply because the average Joe doesn't believe we are at war. Until war visits his home he won't believe it.

Personally I believe we will have the will to fight - and win - but it will only happen after a substantial number of our people are dead or dying.

The bottom line, sooner or later a western city will get nuked. How we respond will determine if we will survive as a free people or not.

[Uriah_lost]

Then there are those of us that will never surrender to the despair....as tired and beaten down as we may be and as hopeless as it may seem(key word there, seem).

[Petronski]

I have been wrong in the past about a great many things, and my current or future opinions may be in error as well.

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[StarCMC]

You are a sad, strange little man. Must be depressing to be you if you beleive all that BS.

[Lancey Howard]

Did you see THIS?
From the article:

"A lot of us feel like we have our hands tied behind our back," says Cpl. Peter Mattice, of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment. "In Fallujah, [insurgents] know our [rules of engagement] - they know when to stop, just before we engage."

It's Vietnam, all over again. The war is being lost by a politically correct new breed of Robert McNamaras back here, in the rear with the gear, at the Pentagon and the White House. What a sickening disgrace.

[Andy from Beaverton]

The military cannot win a war overseas without winning public opinion at home.

What crap!

[StarCMC]

It's depressing to be me when my spelling is that bad! ARGH!

beleive = believe

[sageb1]

"Then there are those of us that will never surrender to the despair....as tired and beaten down as we may be and as hopeless as it may seem"

Agree. But the fact remains that we have felt despair and we have all felt beaten down at one time or another. I say today we cut B-Chan some slack and share with him some of our hope.

[AmishDude]

I only have three questions:

Who are you?

Why should I care what you think about anything?

Do you know what a rhetorical question is?

[Apercu]

Boots on the ground say otherwise.Another self important know nothing media whore continues to blather on.

[Torie]

I could try to be more substantive, but what is one to do with those who want to revert to philosopher kings? Bill Buckley said it best. He said he would rather be ruled by a random assortment of folks picked out of the Boston area telephone book than the Harvard faculty. I agree with Buckley, not because I hate of disrespect Harvard, which I don't, but because, it really does not represent the fruited plain. It has its own passions and concerns, and they are not wholly shared by the folks in Fall River, Mass, much less in Provo, Utah, or Tulsa, Oklahoma, or York, Pennsylvania, or Midland Texas, to pick a few towns at random. The loci of wisdom are diffused. It takes a robust pluralism with rancorous and loud lawyer types having at each other, to sort it out. :)

[Uriah_lost]

I don't require others to join me but I come around here as much as I do to be reminded that I am NOT alone.
Thanks