Posted on 07/18/2002 8:03:52 AM PDT by Pokey78
Europe isn't used to that, but America is getting used to it. What a change.
The sentence contradicts itself. The "human missiles" the Iraqi press boasted about five years ago are here now. Prototyped against the Jews, now here in America. Everybody better let this sink in, because it changes the whole face of armed conflict.
The Europeans are like a continent of liberals--they refuse to see what's in front of them--their neurotic compulsion to avoid acting is probably the result of wishful thinking coupled with a fear of war based on the massive loss of life during WWI and WWII. They don't understand that if they had removed Hitler early and fast many more Europeans would have lived--they don't seem to view appeasement as a failed strategy.
LOL! I missed that one back then. I love it.
Yeah, like "I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missle into a tent and hit some camel in the butt - when I move, it's going to be DECISIVE!!"
Gotta be the greatest line of the century; certainly the decade. Remember this response to your whining BS, Hill Baby?!
Well, that can cut both ways and seem "pre-text". Many thought Clinton's action in Sudan had a distracting, or ulterior purpose.
Plus I don't know how much a President's actions on a war, something most people think is, or should be, "non-partisan", would effect elections at lower levels.
People want to hear about bread and butter issues and why their stock values have dropped - things like that.
That's a great line. It's right up there with "We're here to kick *ss and chew bubble gum, and we're all out of bubble gum.
...Now that they have lost both the appetite and the capacity for power politics, the Europeans are in the grip of a contradiction. They insist that acts of war can only be justified by moral absolutes. They also insist that we live in a world of moral relativities. European governments had a double quarrel with Mr Bushs axis of evil speech. They do not believe in the axis. Nor do they believe in the evil. They prefer to live in a world as depicted by Whistler, in which everything is a subtle symphony of endless grey. From this perspective, Saddam may be a bad man, but he is merely a darker shade of grey than Ariel Sharon.
In France, this reluctance to confront basic moral judgments is reinforced by anti-Americanism. To almost all French politicians, it is an article of faith that the world is always more complex than the Americans would have it. This aversion to moralism is also strengthened, and not only in France, by a quasi-Marxist belief that history is ultimately the interplay of economic and social forces, and that it is ridiculously old-fashioned to believe that great events are caused by great men or by greatly evil men.
This is curious. Those who disbelieve in the motive power of evil men cannot have read much 20th-century European history.
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