[TYVets]

Very good

Well worth the time to read this article

[deeaggie]

Thanks for posting this. Awesome article.

[kattracks]

ping

[lainde]

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[Reb Raider]

The author of this article lays out the case for fighting the terrorists in a thoughtful and convincing way. It should be very obvious to the American people why communists and socialists througout the world are excited by a Kerry presidency, but they cannot stop hating Bush long enough to think through the consequences to our country if a weak willed president is elected.

One thing is guaranteed-- because of the anti war crowd here and in Europe, there will be as many sensational terrorist atrocities commited as they can get away with in the months leading up to Bush's and Blair's reelections plus the attacks that had calmed somewhat in Iraq will be escalated.

[GailA]

Excellent read, his book will be worth reading.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Bookmarked, and passing on to many others.

Thank you. kattracks.

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[LLBeet]

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[Luis Gonzalez]

Greatr article, thanks for posting this.

Here's one more.

For it's becoming clear now that poverty wasn't what caused a group of middle-class and reasonably well-educated Middle Easterners to fly three airplanes into buildings and another into the ground. It was, rather, resentments growing out of the absence of representative institutions in their own societies, so that the only outlet for political dissidence was religious fanaticism.

Hence, Bush insists, the ultimate goal of U.S. strategy must be to spread democracy everywhere. The United States must finish the job that Woodrow Wilson started. The world, quite literally, must be made safe for democracy, even those parts of it, like the Middle East, that have so far resisted that tendency. Terrorism—and by implication the authoritarianism that breeds it—must become as obsolete as slavery, piracy, or genocide: "behavior that no respectable government can condone or support and that all must oppose."

A Grand Strategy of Transformation

[VOA]

Bump for exposure...
We may lose Spain and the Rest of OLD Europe, but we'll pull Iraq into the
league of civilized nations.

[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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[SkyPilot]

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