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I'll Buy Your Children [WSJ Letter Mentioned by Rush]
The Wall Street Journal ^
| Wednesday, June 26, 2002
| Scott Miller
Posted on 06/26/2002 10:16:16 AM PDT by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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I want to buy your children. As I understand it, you have seven children still alive (your son Mahmoud killed himself, I'm sorry to hear). I'll offer more than Saddam Hussein has offered; he'll pay $25,000 each, if they are willing to turn themselves into human bombs, but I'll pay $30,000 each.
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To: TroutStalker
Excellent article.
To: TroutStalker
Excellent! Thanks for posting. This brilliant letter really says it all.
To: TroutStalker
Joliet Jake?
BTW, that is an excellent article, certainly makes the point, doesn't it?
To: TroutStalker
Mr. Miller in Atlanta is one super guy.
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posted on
06/26/2002 10:46:27 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: TroutStalker
That letter gave me chills. You can hear the sincerity. What a difference there is between the voice of love and the voice of hate. Nobody can tell me that all Palestinians are willing to kill their children. To those who are not, I sincerely hope they hear this voice of tremendous love this man has shouted out to be heard above the destruction and dispair that is being peddeled to them by those who worship death.
To: TroutStalker
BIG bump
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posted on
06/26/2002 11:18:28 AM PDT
by
sanchmo
To: TroutStalker
BTTT!!
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posted on
06/26/2002 11:31:26 AM PDT
by
MoJo2001
To: TroutStalker
I appreciate the sentiment, and Scott Miller is quite a guy, but the fact is, their kids are not worth $25,000. They are damaged goods. If we had to pay $25,000 for each potential Palestinian suicide bomber kid, we'd go bankrupt. I'd rather pay far less, and carve out a homeland for them in the desert somewhere.
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posted on
06/26/2002 11:39:20 AM PDT
by
Defiant
To: TroutStalker
Okayfine, I'll be the lone dissenter.
I do find it a stirring letter, arresting, impressive essay, and a heart-warming offer.
But it does also give example of and unintentionally identify a weakness which is also America's weakness in this war. Here it is. Some of you will see it right off, others will find it offensive and terrifying, but it will stand regardless:
It attempts to oppose and conquer SOMETHING with NOTHING
The writer says, "I want your children to stop being Islamists. I have no compelling truth-system to replace what they will leave maybe they'll be Christians, Buddhists, athiests, I don't care but I just want them to leave what you all are so devoted to that death is no obstacle to you."
It's only half the deal. We're a spiritually and morally bankrupt and clueless nation, fighting with people who are dead-wrong, but committed to a belief-system. To their something, we bring nothing -- but weapons.
We'd better pray that's enough.
But in the long run, it won't be.
Dan
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posted on
06/26/2002 11:52:14 AM PDT
by
BibChr
To: Defiant
You are probably correct that paying for the children will be expensive. However, there is no way a "Palestinian homeland" will ever be anything but a) a huge welfare case, primarily paid for by us, and b) a launching pad for more terrorists. I say no Palestinian state ever as long as they exist only to kill Israelis. Since that is the reason the Palestinian cause exists, then no Palestinian state ever. Sorry, G.W., but you rewarded terrorism big time.
To: Bahbah
Yes, he is! Kudos to Mr. Miller! God bless him!
To: BibChr
Personally, Dan, I think the reason the letter writer phrased it the way he did was to show the difference betweeen a culture that values life and one that values death. I also think Mr. Miller is sincere.
To: Defend the Second
OK, you're right, they don't deserve a state. They will need to be resettled elsewhere, however, and that will be messy. Can you imagine going into the cities to round up the Palestinians so they can be herded into trucks, and transported to Sinai, or Jordan, or the Arabian peninsula? That will keep the jew-haters in hysterics for years.
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posted on
06/26/2002 1:08:26 PM PDT
by
Defiant
To: TroutStalker
God love him.
To: TroutStalker
I want to buy them away from the god of death you worship. Perhaps I can help them convert to traditional Islam, a religion that abhors murder and suicide An otherwise excellent letter except for the insinuation that "traditional" Islam is somehow a better choice. I fail to see the distinction of the two or the outcry by "traditional" muslims to cease using their religion as a foundation of terror.
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posted on
06/26/2002 1:58:35 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
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