Posted on 03/03/2022 4:15:47 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
So, I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority. You know, I’ve always believed that old Screwtape reserved his best efforts for those of you in the Church. So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride–the temptation of blithely..uh..declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
I ask you to resist the attempts of those who would have you withhold your support for our efforts, this administration’s efforts, to keep America strong and free, while we negotiate–real and verifiable reductions in the world’s nuclear arsenals and one day, with God’s help, their total elimination. [Applause]
While America’s military strength is important, let me add here that I’ve always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.
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Apparently Foggy Bottom didn’t get the memo.
It’s easy to do that when evil has been defeated.
Someone forgot to tell Foggy Bottom.
The Soggy Bottom Boys never want war to stop, too profitable and it is a great distraction from domestic politics.
The proof is in the pudding as we watch we all the the Bush Crime Family Freepers flood the forum after a long hiatus.
It would be naïve think that both political parties would not be be paying FR trolls to mobilize and shape opinion on this site when the stakes are so high and they print money to burn.
Russia is no longer the Soviet Union.
All of the name calling and crap isn’t even shaping opinion. It just raises the noise level through the roof and sucks up bandwidth.
It’s like the first days of COVID when few posts had any information in it, but were swamped immediately with a bunch of idiotic name calling and FRatricide. It looked like a China cyber attack.
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