To: sukhoi-30mki
Mark Steyn wrote this many years ago:
Everyone's for a free Tibet, but no one's for freeing Tibet. So Tibet will stay unfree - as unfree now as it was when the first Free Tibet campaigner slapped the very first "FREE TIBET" sticker on the back of his Edsel. Idealism as inertia is the hallmark of the movement...He's [the guy with the bumper sticket] advertising his moral superiority, not calling for action.
If Rumsfeld were to say, "Free Tibet? Jiminy, what a swell idea! The Third Infantry Division goes in on Thursday," the bumper-sticker crowd would be aghast. They'd have to bend down and peel off the "FREE TIBET" stickers and replace them with "WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER.
11 posted on
10/13/2016 5:51:03 AM PDT by
tenger
(Abortion is not stopped because politicians don't want it stopped.)
To: tenger
12 posted on
10/13/2016 5:52:15 AM PDT by
Travis T. OJustice
(<---Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year)
To: tenger
15 posted on
10/13/2016 5:58:46 AM PDT by
mdmathis6
(BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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