Posted on 11/07/2001 8:14:30 PM PST by JohnHuang2
You've had your nose stuck in too many text books if you think the waving of the red, white, and blue is "media-induced" ...... heck, a lot of them refuse to even acknowledge that they are Americans (not to mention Peter Jennings, who isn't an American). The displaying of our flag is a grassroots thing to which some in the media have reacted appropriately.
I would volunteer if I believe my nation and way of life were under attack (and it isn't--WTC notwithstanding).
If you don't think hi-jacking commercial planes full of men, women, and children and using them to crash into the WTC and the Pentagon is an attack on America and your way of life, then God help you. I guess what happened at Pearl Harbor wasn't an attack either.
I want Americans to remember who and what they are again.
I have a son your age. I know one heckuva lot more about who and what I am and what it means to be an American than you can even imagine. You have reached adulthood in the age of bubba-ism and can't conceive of what it really means to be proud to be an American. Once you get out in the real world, you'll wise up quite a bit.
Really? What do you propose the military turn on the government? It can't do that nor can it turn on the citizens. THAT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WE THE VOTERS!!! It is by constitutional design the military is under the sole authority of those you hate those being civilian leaders. You'll have a hard time finding any military vets wanting it any other way. To do otherwise invites us to be a nation such as those we now fight. As for defending the nation? Right now a majority of our fuel comes from the MED SEA basin so it would be foolish to abandon it. Besides keeping fleets deployed keeps sailors trained and ships safe or rather much safer than they are at a pier.
And you never answered my question what does race ratio have to do with the topic of this thread?
You may not espouse the slime of bubba but you have not been insulated from it. In my own son, I see massive cynicism about government because all that he really knows is what it has degenerated to in the last few years. I see this very same cynicism in your posts, which is quite ironic. He has always been very apolitical but recently married a girl who is fanatically liberal and parrots many of the views that she learned from her liberal family. Yet you and he sound very much alike in talking about the government ..... he now spouting liberal garbage and you claiming to be quite conservative.
Another way that I see evidence of bubba-ism in your posts is in your obvious racism. You have now made derogatory remarks about minorities in the armed forces and about Israel. Bubba was the great divider and did everything he could to foster emphasis on differences rather than seeking commonalities.
Check "Fagolitas'" member date, November 6,2001. The four paleocons, in the world, have to keep changing their logon name. They are kind of like the Taliban, only not as bright or well kept. Thanks for your service and let your shipmates know that everyone, except those released from institutions, are behind them and want this thing followed thorough to the end, unlike the Gulf or Nam.
Bush never proposed amnesty for all illegals, that was a stretch by the media when he suggested that maybe we should look again at a guest worker program which would at least have the illegals identified, located, and registered as guest workers, rather than the chaos we have now. He also never suggested eliminating the southern border. Fox may have but otherwise it is another media myth.
So many of Bush's problems, as people like you see it, are for things he never said or did. Get the record straight. He has recently talked again about fixing the immigration problems but it would be nice if the Senate Democrats would at least have hearings on some of his appointments to important positions rather than his being stuck with Clinton holdovers, like the INS guy. Ashcroft just today said a reorganization is forthcoming.
As far as hypothesizing about how the world would be without 911 I ask, why? It did happen and we are very lucky to have Bush in charge. Ask Vladamir Putin.
Be a man--admit you are wrong and drop it.
As in the thronged and lighted ways
deep in the darkened desert they stand
wary and watchful,all of their days
that their brethren's days be long in the land
May God watch over this sailor
So we can assume that if the current man overboard is never found, the man upstairs could give a crap about him?
-ccm
Well, that's what Pakistani news sources said, anyway.
Interesting. He'd served in WWII and Korea and had been retired for many years, but the funeral was all Navy. Very touching.
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