Krauthammer: Holiday From History

Washington Post ^ | 02/14/03 | Charles Krauthammer

[Pokey78]

The domestic terror alert jumps to 9/11 levels. Heathrow Airport is ringed by tanks. Duct tape and plastic sheeting disappear from Washington store shelves. Osama bin Laden resurfaces. North Korea reopens its plutonium processing plant and threatens preemptive attack. The Second Gulf War is about to begin.

This is not the Apocalypse. But it is excellent preparation for it.

You don't get to a place like this overnight. It takes at least, oh, a decade. We are now paying the wages of the 1990s, our holiday from history. During that decade, every major challenge to America was deferred. The chief aim of the Clinton administration was to make sure that nothing terrible happened on its watch. Accordingly, every can was kicked down the road:

[Pokey78]

Sobering.

[Pokey78]

Pinging the Krauthammer list.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... There is a real question whether we can win the race. Year One of the new era, 2002, passed rather peaceably. Year Two will not: 2003 could be as cataclysmic as 1914 or 1939..."

My sentiments exactly.

[Howlin]

HAHAHAHA........you think Clinton firing a missle into the desert and hitting a camel in the butt is good foreign policy.

BTW, welcome to FR. You won't be here long.

[Pokey78]

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[Sloth]

Dem99 signed up 2003-02-14.
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Heh heh... sometimes the moderators seem dumb, but other times I want to marry them. :)

[Positive]

Man! I just got it! I mean, what is so bad about a preemptive strike against an immoral murderer who is in charge of a nation state? An immoral murderer with an army and airforce who is selling 2,000,000 barrels of oil per day for around $35 each.

This vermin needs to be irradicated and we can do it, so we should. It's as simple as that.

[ffusco]

I missed something? What was removed? Have we been infiltrated by a "seminar caller"?

[budwiesest]

Kinda creepy too when you consider that we may in fact, according to modern tmes, be overdue for such events. Too bad, one would hope that modern people would have developed better ways to resolve differences than to adopt the ancient ritual of cracking heads according to some undisclosed schedule. Yet, it's not....

"... a lesson, too late for the learning....."

[Sloth]

Just a typical 'Clinton was the greatest President ever, Shrub is destroying America' thing. Nothing noteworthy.

[nutmeg]

Very sobering article ping...

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks for the ping. Krauthammer at his best, a very chilling article.

[nutmeg]

Clinton did nothing ping!

[Irish Eyes]

to the top

[yianni]

The must never be another Democrat administration.

[MinorityRepublican]

What are the odds that our species will manage to contain this awful knowledge without self-destruction -- not for a billion years or a million or even a thousand, but just through the lifetime of our children?

Yep, the question is how much longer can we make it?

[MeekOneGOP]

Happy Valentine's Day Howlin !

Fast in, fast out, huh 'RAT ?

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[stanz]

I'm trying to close my eyes and pretend it's 1980.