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The Chickens Come Home to Roost
Lew Rockwell ^ | 9/12/01 | John Keller

Posted on 09/12/2001 4:57:19 AM PDT by Ada Coddington

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To: KO5A
Here's hoping something falls on you.

BOOM!

41 posted on 09/15/2001 5:08:43 PM PDT by Deb
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To: Deb
Didn't fall on me baby.
I don't think Osama's got any beef with Dixie,
And I've got no love for New York.

Hit him again.

42 posted on 09/15/2001 5:20:05 PM PDT by KO5A
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To: BurkeanCyclist
Some chickens. Some roost.

The roost was mighty spectacular.

43 posted on 09/15/2001 5:30:26 PM PDT by Ada Coddington
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To: KO5A
This WTC dropping is a direct and natural result of YOUR failed Imperialistic, aggressive policies. (like bombing Iraq for ten years, and supporting Israel to the tune of 4 or 5 billion$ every year).

May you never experience a moment's happiness or a day without pain.

44 posted on 09/15/2001 5:32:30 PM PDT by BurkeanCyclist
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To: BurkeanCyclist
Thanks,
May you be granted your wish: An M-16 and a one-way ticket to Afganistan.
45 posted on 09/15/2001 5:35:38 PM PDT by KO5A
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To: BurkeanCyclist
You still didn't address your bitter enemy Mr. George Washington:

You don't have to tell me I'm full of K***. Tell everyone here how George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, (those anti-Americans), were full of it, when they cautioned us, (you and me), to avoid "entangling alliances", and pursue "friendship and honest trade with all nations, entangling alliances with none", (like Israel, Iraq, "Nato", "UN", etc etc etc).

46 posted on 09/15/2001 5:38:29 PM PDT by KO5A
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To: BurkeanCyclist
Our anti-American posters apparently get their knowledge of the Farewell Address from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. They seem not to know that Washington also said this:

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense.

That doesn't seem to translate to "Dump Israel quick before they hit us again" to me.

47 posted on 09/15/2001 5:59:05 PM PDT by Southern Federalist
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To: Boonie Rat
Excellent post. There's an absolute disconnect between the actions of our government, as perceived on the world stage by foreign nations, and the understanding US citizens have of foreign perception. It's not at all unusual to come across Europeans (my only example, since I've met some) who are thrilled to discuss with an American the finer points of American foreign policy, to the extent that this American, anyway, couldn't possibly keep up. "Our foreign policy? Oh yeah, that something that they mention on the news sometimes." Duh. Foreign papers do not run a front page without a story about America's foreign affairs. The scope of our infuence abroad can really only be appreciated from out there.

This web site is dedicated to grass-roots conservative efforts, rolling back decades of largesse, etc. There's never a lack of big-government bashing on FR, and rightfully so. Our government has shown an endless reserve of statist intentions that anger many here. It's not outrageous to suggest, then, that foreigners get equally tired of seeing the US show up with an airstrike, a demand for change in another country, or both.

To acknowledge the possibility that our foreign policy has definite potential consequences at home is not the same thing as saying that it's a good thing that the WTC is now gone, or that America got what was coming to it. The people who died on 9/11 were no more responsible for the suicidal tendencies of the terrorists than they were for the sun coming up that day. But Americans will now bear the burden domestically of the fat-headed fed.gov interventionist policies that give militants the fuel to fire their jihad.

Of course much foreign obsession with America is just plain old fashioned jealousy, or fascination with all the relative freedoms and "stuff" that we have. People who are dissatisfied with their own state of affairs will always find a big, powerful, rich scapegoat. Like your average Democrat voter, I guess.

As of last Tuesday, we are all now combatants, like it or not, on our own soil. I'm resigned to the fact that there will probably be more days like last Tuesday, and the current crop of Muslim harrassment will be child's play by comparison. There's no small chance that this will turn into a world war, drawn down religious lines. I'm personally prepared to fight, to the extent one can fight with a guy who's carrying a bomb in his baby carrier or whatever, and possibly die before this is all over. Anyone who has similar convictions should be able to state the obvious about US foreign policy without being accused of sedition.

48 posted on 09/15/2001 5:59:09 PM PDT by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: Southern Federalist
Some of them are simply misguided. Others are evil, and take pleasure in this atrocity.

And right now, I really don't care which are which.

49 posted on 09/15/2001 6:10:41 PM PDT by BurkeanCyclist
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To: Ada Coddington
The evil masterminds remain, and given the success of this attack, they will have legions of new fanatics, ready to die. Even if we eliminate those at the top of the organization, more will take their place

Good point. Nuke 'em all until they break. Then subjugate them. Re-educate them. Remove all inappropriate material and symbols from their culture. And when they've been broken utterly and rebuilt in a different form, maybe we'll have finished the job.

50 posted on 09/15/2001 6:14:21 PM PDT by neutrino (neutrino)
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To: BurkeanCyclist, Southern Scalawag
You're the ones demanding blood, as is your nature.
I wonder if my fellow Southern-born "Patriot" would care to edify us on what George Washington said about "foriegn influence?"
51 posted on 09/15/2001 6:16:02 PM PDT by KO5A (Got no love for Scalawags either)
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To: BurkeanCyclist
Our Washington expert called me a name. Just tears me up.

Note that he does not say how Washington's commitment to fidelity to "existing engagements" is compatible with dumping Israel. Instead he conjures up the specter of "foreign influence" by which I suppose he means to suggest that the Elders of Zion are running the world.

My rule is that I don't actually speak to people who are excusing terrorists and defending the enemies of our country, though I do sometimes comment on them to other posters who show good sense and a bit of decency. My Daddy taught me that you can't win a p*ssin' contest with a polecat.

52 posted on 09/15/2001 6:28:41 PM PDT by Southern Federalist
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To: Un-PC
"We continue to supply Israel, at taxpayers's expense, with advanced armaments that have been used to subjugate the Palestinian people."

Oh, cry me a river.

What about the arabs we also supply with advanced armaments?

"...to subjugate the Palestinian people" my ass. Israel "subjugates the Palestinian people" the same way America "subjugates Charles Manson."

Sometimes it's actually right to do the right thing. You Big-L cowards would pass by a burning wreck on the highway because it's "none of my business, and besides, I'd be late for work."

And, you'd pass by a rape in progress because, "If she hadn't worn a short dress, she wouldn't have provoked the rapist." -- which, I might hasten to add, is precisely the argument raised by the mullahs when their followers engage in a wave of rapes in the various countries they infest.

You would have us sit back and watch as animals tear apart innocent humans, because if we stepped in, we might make them angry.

I saw a joke I'm sure you'll appreciate:

Two Jews -- a husband and wife -- are standing facing a trench in a nazi concentration camp. Behind them is a nazi guard with a machinegun. The nazi pulls back the bolt on the machinegun. When the husband hears the sound of the gun being cocked, he mutters "lousy stinking nazi son of a bitch," at which point the wife turns and hispers, "Shush! You'll make him mad!"

The article at the top of this thread is nothing more than the Stockholm Syndrome on crack. And the people who rise to its defense are evidence of a need to reinstitute HUAC.

53 posted on 09/16/2001 5:36:27 AM PDT by Don Joe
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To: Ada Coddington
"There might be people in the United State who enable terrorists, but John Keller is not one of them."

You might be right about some things, but this is not one of them.

54 posted on 09/16/2001 5:42:34 AM PDT by Don Joe
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To: KO5A
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

I suggest you give those words of advice to your brother bin laden.

I also suggest you try giving them to any American on the street, without the protective shield of your keyboard to hide behind.

55 posted on 09/16/2001 5:46:57 AM PDT by Don Joe
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To: KO5A
"I don't think Osama's got any beef with Dixie, And I've got no love for New York."

How's that old saying go?

Oh yeah, now I remember: Rot in hell, traitor.

56 posted on 09/16/2001 5:48:24 AM PDT by Don Joe
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To: Semaphore Heathcliffe
"To acknowledge the possibility that our foreign policy has definite potential consequences at home is not the same thing as saying that it's a good thing that the WTC is now gone, or that America got what was coming to it."

I suggest reading some of the treasonous rantings of the more vile posters before coming up with a knee-slapper like the above.

57 posted on 09/16/2001 5:51:29 AM PDT by Don Joe
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To: Don Joe
I think Osama's still out there Yankee.

Hit him again.

58 posted on 09/16/2001 7:18:27 AM PDT by KO5A (As ye sow, sow shall ye reap)
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To: Don Joe
""As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

I suggest you give those words of advice to your brother bin laden.

I also suggest you try giving them to any American on the street, without the protective shield of your keyboard to hide behind."

I give them to any moaning, brainwashed, bloodthirsty imbecile who exhibits his -ignorance? arrogance? how do you explain this?- Where folks, Yanks mostly like yourself, who love any war of aggression as long as it's planned and executed from up there in NYC, DC~ wherever you get together to scheme up your wars and your invasions and especially lately your bombings. You just love a good bombing as long as you're bombing Moslems in Iraq- Christians in Serbia, Pharmacists in the Sudan- Now I guess you want to slaughter thousands- millions? in Afganistan huh?

As ye sow so shall ye reap.
You did unto others Northern Scum- Now they're doing unto you. How do you like it?

59 posted on 09/16/2001 7:28:16 AM PDT by KO5A (I've got no love for you. GTF out of Dixie)
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To: Ada Coddington
The lessons seem clear enough: follow an isolationist foreign policy

1) bin Ladin wants to RULE the World so isolationism won't stop him
2) It was our "Intelligence Agencies policies of ISOLATION" which was the 1st error that caused this mess.

60 posted on 09/16/2001 7:39:41 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth
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