The Democrats can never be trusted to defend America and here’s why…

Public Enquiry Project ^ | 9/27/04 | Adrian Spidle

[AdrianSpidle]

Listen; there are two main factions of political thought in the human race. One faction traces its lineage back to Socrates and his student/publisher Plato. Socrates voluntarily took the hemlock and died for “the truth” as he saw it.

The other faction traces its lineage back to Plato’s friend Aristotle. Aristotle trained Alexander in the art of war who made lots of others die for “the truth” as he saw it.

Modern analogs of these two factions are the person who parks his alternative fuel vehicle with the “Visualize Peace” bumper sticker in front of his modest home; while the other parks his F150 pickup with the NRA decal and the “my dead hands” bumper sticker in front of his somewhat grander home.

If you were a thief on the prowl, which house would you victimize? Well, the same metaphor applies to nations. While Plato’s teachings are invaluable – I particularly love his “Parable of the Cave” – his followers are extremely dangerous in time of war.

For example, read what Teresa HEINZ kerry said yesterday:

“The way we live in peace in a family, in a marriage, in the world, is not by threatening people, is not by showing off your muscles. It's by listening, by giving a hand sometimes, by being intelligent, by being open and by setting high standards," she said at the CSU rally.”

As nice as this sounds, it’s a formula for suicide in times like now. Here’s another quote from an earlier post of mine on why pacifism is evil:

“In another enlightening example, a group of prominent British clergymen wanted to travel to Manchuria and “place their bodies physically between the Japanese and Chinese armies” believing that their pacifist woo woos would somehow stop those murderers in their tracks and bring about peace and harmony to that sadly brutalized continent.”

http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/08/john_f_kerry_is.html

Finally, here is a more thorough exposition on this theory:

http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/09/the_democrats_c.html

[JoJo Gunn]