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To: Prodigal Son
... but to ignore where we are weak among ourselves is folly.

Folly indeed. Well spoken, and I'm guessing infantry duty really helps clarify this particular outlook .... an outlook that is missing too much here at FR.
223 posted on 02/12/2004 6:40:50 AM PST by gobucks (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/laocoon)
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To: gobucks
nd I'm guessing infantry duty really helps clarify this particular outlook ....

Yeah, perhaps. If you're exposed to fire you're going to get shot. Pretending you're bullet proof isn't a remedy.

225 posted on 02/12/2004 6:43:24 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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To: gobucks
Well, here's my opinion. If Peggy Noonan wanted to help, she could have forwarded her opinions to the White House. Calling him bumbling on the pages of the Wall Street Journal is not help; it is providing the enemy with ammunition and sowing fear amongst the troops, which she has compounded with her second column.

If she is a columnist paid for her opinions and she cares nothing about what effect her opinions have, that is fine. But to tell me that I should respect her as an ally while she does things like this is patently foolish. An ally doesn't do this.

Now, as far as the paragraph she has requested, here is mine:

When our nation came under attack on September 11, one man held this nation together and ralllied us to fight back. He did it through the sheer force of his character. He has held faithful through the fears of the timid, the attacks of those who would take his place, the rants of those who demand perfection. He has defended this nation and her people without apology and without pretense. He has held his office with honor, and has called forth the good and generous spirit of the American people. He deserves reelection because he is the president we need.

233 posted on 02/12/2004 6:50:58 AM PST by Miss Marple
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