Posted on 08/07/2005 5:48:09 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Exactly so, and well said!
Hmmm, reading this is practically giving me a flashback. Where's my free love?
BTW, are you an old retread from the 60s, or just channeling the spirit of one of my college classmates?
Look, you need to face up to a couple of life's [unpleasant] realities. The war in Iraq is mean, ugly, and not to be over in 120 minutes or less, as everything is in Hollywood. It is hard and drawn out. There is no guarantee of success in our acting, but most certainly a guarantee of failure if we do not.
My guess is that I've been around a lot longer than you have. FYI, we did not start terrorism, we are not responsible for the terrorists and their actions. They will not go away if we desist in pursuing them, or try to "make nice". This is kill or be killed, and you are deluding yourself if you think otherwise. Likewise, this is not a conflict that will end in a clear cut manner, with the defeated signing a document of surrender. It will go on and on, waxing and waning depending on our willingness to do the difficult and sometimes brutal things necessary.
Be a serious student of history. The world didn't start 30 years ago and neither did terrorism. History, past and present, is brutal. And peace signs, candles, protests and socialist ideals haven't and won't change that.
We may be a long way from perfect, but we are most certainly the good guys. And I, for one, have no shame in believing that my life is more important than the lives of those who wish to kill me and my family and my contrymen. And if they must die in order to prevent them from killing me (or you), so bit. It is their choice.
More impeachment bla bla from the ivory tower.
I'm sure she' a liberal fanatic after being teased those many years about her name.
There, that is more accurate.
No it was not a mistake. It is obvious your analysis is devoid of consideration of how the real world works.
Saddam was supporting the terrorists. It was a havid for those who do harm to the USA.
It is no longer a 2 dimensional war world, we have to deal with a war field that goes beyond borders and governments.
Basically you are repeating the same mistake that makes nevil chamberlin have the unique place in history as history's greatest sucker.
Bump
CNN insider's quote of the month: "If it's news, it's news to us."
OK, OK, so I'm a little slow on the uptake.
For Rosemarie Jackowski it's always 1966 -- revolutionaries aren't old hat, old, or discredited. Sad...
I think that point number 7 sums up the true liberal view of the US and human nature. they don't trust the people to vote for their own laws, or their own govt. representation.
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