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To: dagogo redux

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it unconscionable to focus on any political benefit from the death of our beloved Navy SEALs.


259 posted on 08/06/2011 11:51:34 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
but I find it unconscionable to focus on any political benefit from the death of our beloved Navy SEALs.

Yes, it is simply beyond belief that anyone would ever act in such a treacherous way against their own country. In all the history of the world such a thing has never happened before!

299 posted on 08/06/2011 12:42:25 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I think your use of the term “political” is inaccurate when what I am talking about is the survival of our constitutional republic, and our way of life, and probably the wellbeing and perhaps even the lives of everyone you hold dear. I’m not talking (D) vs (R) here: I’m talking about the future of the freedoms enumerated in the Declaration vs tyranny.

Is this not what the Seals were willing to risk death for? I can’t get real maudlin over whether they might have lived longer and had their efforts and lives wasted in yet further lost causes that had absolutely nothing to do with the factors in my first paragraph above. But if their deaths were, even inadvertently, the cause of something worthwhile being achieved along those lines, then they will not have died in vain.

I volunteered to put my life in harm’s way during Vietnam. If by my death, (and there were those that would have also considered me “beloved”) I had contributed to something that would have truly enhanced those factors above, rather than contributing to some idiotic folly dreamed up by politicians, globalists, and the military-industrial complex, I would have considered it a worthwhile death.

Perhaps too subtle. Focus on whatever thoughts and feelings you want. Those are mine. Sorry if you find that focus unconscionable.


369 posted on 08/06/2011 9:47:51 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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