The Fall

National Review Online ^ | September 24, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson

[newfreep]

Actually, that was on Paul's first solo album after S&G. He did a solo LP in England shortly after S&G had their first hit - very rare and hard to find.

[DoctorMichael]

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."

Spot on quote.

[hershey]

Rather and others like him have millions of dead Vietnamese, Americans, and Cambodians on their collective consciences. Rather than face that, they prefer denial. Thirty years of it, and now babbling about another Vietnam quagmire...as if screeching this long enough will make it retroactively true. They'll go to their graves swearing allegiance to socialism. As Hill says (and means it), "...We will take things away from you for the common good."

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226743/posts
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But Iraq's the No. 1 issue in American right now, and they've got the go-to guy right in front of them, and what do the blow-dried poseurs of the networks ask:

''Mr. President, John Kerry is accusing you of colossal failures of judgment in Iraq . . .''

NBC guy: ''A central theme of your campaign is that America is safer because of the invasion of Iraq. Can you understand why Americans may not believe you?''

CNN: ''Sir, I'd like you to answer Senator Kerry and other critics who accuse you of hypocrisy or opportunism . . .''

They're six feet from Iraq's head of government and they've got not a question for him. They've got no interest in Iraq except insofar as they can use the issue to depress sufficient numbers of swing voters in Florida and Ohio.
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Mark Steyn

[Popman]

Ping

[omstrat]

"They've got no interest in Iraq except insofar as they can use the issue to depress sufficient numbers of swing voters in Florida and Ohio"
That becomes more and more obvious by the hour.The sensitive libs..yea right

[AlbionGirl]

This man never disappoints. Can you imagine being blessed enough to have Mr. Hanson as your teacher?

[randita]

Great take by Hanson. There does seem to be a current of "don't judge us on results, judge us on intentions" and " don't judge us on what we do personally, judge us on our stand on the issues" running through the liberal establishment.

I think the divide is more than ever one of the religious and the non-religious. It would be interesting to see someone really explore this phenomena. I heard a poll result last week saying that 62% of Bush supporters call themselves religious, whereas an equivalent % of Kerry voters call themselves non-religious. That is an important trend, if true, and would explain an awful lot.

[jalisco555]

Cromwell and others thought of England as the new Promised Land and the English as the new Chosen People. He reasoned, therefore, that it was wrong to discriminate against another group also chosen by God.

[Casloy]

the Democrats may soon lose the Senate, the House, the presidency, and the Supreme Court,

That has such a nice ring to it.

[Cuttnhorse]

Bump

[Cuttnhorse]

I just finished Hanson's, "Fields Without Dreams", an excellent book about the Hanson family's farming in the central valley of California.

What a great writer he is.

[reformedliberal]

I felt so guilty about Vietnam - for having betrayed our veterans by believing Walter Cronkite and Hollywood lies.

We didn't have access to the primary sources then.

We may need a national period of mourning, forgiveness, to get beyond this latest national shame - the latest betrayal of all we hold dear by our own mighty free press, and those who bought the slickly packaged lies.

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Amen, Cowgirl. This needs repeating over and over and over.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nice slogo!

[Cuttnhorse]

If you can't be forunate enough to have him as your teacher, you can read his books.

I recommend "FIELDS WITHOUT DREAMS : DEFENDING THE AGRARAIN IDEAL"...a very good book about his family's farming experiences in central California and the fundamentals of agrarian influence in shaping society.

Also, I recommend, "Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power" Great book.

Cheers

[preacher]

Ten on a scale of ten!

[ride the whirlwind]

...but millions of Americans learned long ago that there are probably more liberals on Fox than conservatives on PBS, NPR, CBS, ABC, and NBC combined — and the former are honest about politics in a way the latter are not.

Wow, that really sums it up nicely.

[jackbill]

This man never disappoints. Can you imagine being blessed enough to have Mr. Hanson as your teacher?

VDH did a year as a "visiting professor" at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis two or three years ago.

Lucky Middies.

[Fzob]

Thanks for the ping

An excellent read.

[Republic]

Amazing....arrogant, yet in the end, so incredibly important for the jewish population.