half_nelson
Since Dec 15, 2002

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I live in Uptown- Free Republic is my sanity!



A memo to an antiwar activist (I didn't write this, I don't know who did but it is right on)...


Dear Sir or Madam:


We the people of America see right through you: you don't give a damn about Iraq. No, instead you hate the President. You hate Republicans. You hate conservatives. You hate America, the very country that gives you the freedom to hate it.


The Achilles heel of you leftists is your inability to see and recognize human evil. You hate President Bush more than Saddam Hussein. You hate John Ashcroft more than Osama Bin Laden. You hate Bill Frist more than Yasser Arafat. You hate second-hand smoke more than first-hand anthrax. You fear global warming more than Islamic terror. You hate SUVs more than the tin pot dictator of North Korea. You hate the police and have sympathy for the murderers on death row. You're transparent.


Pacifism in the face of evil is immoral: if Flight 93 on September 11th, 2001 were full of pacifists like you, the airplane would have plowed right through its intended target of the Capitol building in D.C., murdering hundreds of people. The consequence of your pacifism would have led directly to more innocent deaths.


"War never solved anything," you say? It solved slavery. It solved Hitler. It will solve Islamofascism.


"No war for oil," you say? If America wanted Iraqi oil, we would buy it. Your ally Saddam would be thrilled and continue to build palaces for himself, while starving, raping and murdering his own people. After all, your allies in France, Germany and Russia do buy oil from Iraq. That is one of the reasons those nations oppose the war. They are the countries that are benefitting from Iraqi oil.


"UN, not US," you say? Are you referring to the same UN that has the vicious nation of Syria on its security commission? The same UN that has the oppressive, brutal nation of Libya heading its human rights commission? The French appeasers? The Chinese communists? The German pacifists? Those are your heroes?


You see, American values are better than the values of every other nation. That doesn't mean that every single American is better than every Syrian. But it means that the sum total of our great civilization, with all its flaws, is better than the sum totals of other nations. Unlike your friends the genocidal maniacs in Sudan, America allows you to speak your mind.

America also allows me to speak mine.