***The president doesn't frame it like that, alas. Instead, he says stuff like: "Freedom is the desire of every human heart." Really? It's unclear whether that's the case in Gaza and the Sunni Triangle. But it's absolutely certain that it's not the case in Berlin and Paris, Stockholm and London, Toronto and New Orleans. The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government "security," large numbers of people vote to dump freedom -- the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, seat belts and a ton of other stuff. I would welcome the president using "Freedom is the desire of every human heart" in Chicago and Dallas, and, if it catches on there, then applying it to Ramadi and Tikrit. ***
Only Mark Steyn can expose the myth, and sum up the dilemma, of America in one paragraph.
My only regret is that so many of Mr. Steyn's comments are too long to fit into the space allotted for taglines....
The president doesn't frame it like that, alas. Instead, he says stuff like: "Freedom is the desire of every human heart." Really? It's unclear whether that's the case in Gaza and the Sunni Triangle.
Part of the problem is too many people don't look at this (the Bush doctrine) in a long term way. come back in 20-30 years and see what this part of the world is like, because that's the time frame the President is looking at. Will this work? I seem to have misplaced my crystal ball so I can't say. This I do suspect it will be 2 steps forward 1 step back. What's the alternative? Nuking the area?
Can we start looking at the forest instead of the trees?
Reading that at first I felt anger. "Myth"? How dare you?
Then reality set in.
At 60 years of age, I remember an America quite different and morally stable growing up as a young boy in the 1950's.
It's an effin mess today, and I wonder how responsible is my generation?
History will look back at the flower children and the VietNam War...the Woodstock Generation and Im afraid they will be judged accordingly.