Posted on 05/22/2008 8:47:47 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
"We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you." – Hussein Massawi, Hezbollah
Every generation must confront threats to its survival. American blood, treasure and courage have thus far defeated all who would harm us, often with clarity of purpose no other nation could equal. Our victories define us, our defeats haunt us and we endlessly review both, trying to learn, to prepare for the inevitable, when we must next send our soldiers into harm’s way. Our strength has always been our irrepressible energy, coupled with the knowledge that, despite missteps, we always strive to do good. Rather than wallow in the sins of our ancestors, we learn and move forward, we forgive ourselves our past even as we remember it.
Yet evil is always with us. It is the lot of human kind to face it endlessly. It comes in many forms and from many directions; it grows and spreads when we are distracted, or weary of the struggle, our vision unfocused, our way unsure. As often as we have heard that the price of peace is eternal vigilance, we were caught unaware on 9/11 and we will only triumph after great effort and sacrifice in a conflict which in historical context has been going on for millennia.
Many pretend it does not exist, from either fear or ignorance. They tell us that charity and forbearance will ensure goodwill in the world, despite the harsh reality of evil bombarding us at every turn. It is a precarious balance between the ideal and the real. The ability to weigh ideology against consequence, so that ideology in all its permutations does not dominate, has been an American blessing.
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The sick murders of women and children, the constant fear all these people live under is unacceptable. Like a over stressed rat curls up in his cage, there comes a point when death is better than the torture.
You need to come to terms with the following facts:
1) There has always been Elemental Evil. You cannot reason with it. It is the Borg, it is the Nazis, it is the Cylons, it is the T3000 that will come after you and never give up.
2) This Evil wants nothing more than you, dead. It's stated goal is that we cannot live together in peace. You will be a slave, or you will be dead.
3) Pursuing this goal, their holy book says it is OK to lie to us. Any military man or old-school Republican would say that this very fact closes the door to any kind of negotiations.
4. "Talking peace" in their language translates as "you may well be able to kill me and I need time to reload."
Thanks for sharing.
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All the sadder because all our recent "defeats" have been self-imposed."
Determination, purpose and the ability to wipe any other country off the face of the planet is no longer enough. Now, in order (theoretically) not to "become like them", as a nation and as a culture we choose suicide instead. That is the "noble" choice.
I prefer to see it as "cultural insanity."
Well, golly gee whiz. Thanks for the heads up. /sarc. God bless our troops who have to deal with this evil. When are we gonna stop messing around and really get down and dirty in dealing with these pond scum?
Beautiful.
Too bad nobody is listening but us right-wing fanatics — and there aren’t enough of us left to do anything.
When an American city is vaporized in a nuclear mushroom cloud ... maybe.
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