Cold realities in hot zone (Excellent Read)

Washington Times ^ | 3/20/04 | Karl Zinsmeister

[PhilDragoo]

Next was the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center, in 1993, to which the U.S. Clinton made no effective response at all.

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Enter George W. Bush and our coalition warriors--

--and the craven terrorists are absolutely kerrified¹.

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Note¹ kerrified (KER' rih fide) adj. concealing one's weakness while proclaiming strength, privately whining, publicly lying [see also PHONY, SCHMUCK, LOSER]

[Valin]

It was about two weeks before the war started Dennis Prager read some letters to the President from some 1st-2nd graders at a Quaker school (killing is bad, God doesn't want us to kill each other..that sort of thing) and it suddenly occurred to me that these children were making the same argument(sometime using the same words) as the "anti-war" groups were using, and so I realized that for many of that group their moral development stopped in early grade school. And that those of us who are "pro-war" grew up.
War is bad...but not the worst thing.

[MeekOneGOP]

kerrified ....

[VOA]

In the early 1970s, there was a grand total of 40 democratic societies across
the globe. Democracy, it was said, simply wouldn't grow in certain kinds of soil.
Then stony lands like Portugal, Spain, Greece, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines,
Indonesia, nearly all of Latin America, all of Eastern Europe and South Africa began
to hold free elections for the first time. Many of these dramatic turnovers
took place in a blink.
Today, just 30 years later, there are 120 democracies, and the fraction
of the world's population able to elect its own rulers has increased from one-third
to two-thirds.

Whoa! Now there's an under-reported factoid if there ever was one!

I knew the trend was in this direction over the past couple of decades...
but I'm sure this sort of news is NOT common knowledge...especially in
the classrooms of the the universities and public schools!!!

[VOA]

In 1918, Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin (who had left Harvard during his sophomore
year to serve in World War I) was shot out of the sky in one of aerial warfare's
early dogfights. German propagandists took photos of his maimed body amidst the
plane wreckage and, hoping to dampen American morale, sent one to Mrs. Roosevelt.

Rather than letting herself be cowed, however, she insisted the picture be
displayed over a mantel, as an emblem of her family's sturdiness and their pride
in sacrifice for a high cause.

Now there's something I never heard in American History class.
Even in conservative Oklahoma.
And that was a few decades ago, before the National Education Association
got it's jihad against basic education going at full speed.

The other sad question after reading this is...
What happenened to the men of Harvard since then?
Have they all gone metrosexual?

[Fiddlstix]

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[Remole]

The Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio has an exhibit on the early years of air combat. And one panel shows photographs of the make-shift grave of QR that local Germans created, with a cross made out of large sticks. Very moving. There is also a postcard--maybe the one sent to Mrs. R--of the wreakage of the plane, with the title, "Amer. Flieger Roosevelt."

[SkyPilot]

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[VOA]

I was just sort of shocked at the story...Edith Roosevelt sounds like "one tough mutha'"...
the match for Teddy!