Posted on 04/26/2004 3:10:11 PM PDT by happydogdesign
Honest Mistakes in a Worthy Endeavor Barry Farber
Monday, April 12, 2004
In 1948, shortly after the State of Israel was founded by the same United Nations that now wishes it could undo it, the London police guarding the new Israeli Embassy lodged a complaint with their constabulary. It seems the Israelis were ignoring the tradition of inviting the policemen inside the Embassy for tea every afternoon at four. That’s like not being offered coffee at a business meeting when custom expects it and your body craves it.
The head constable got an Israeli Embassy official on the phone and gave him one of those “See here, old chap” reproaches and let him know the Israelis were not playing by the rules and, please, could something be done about it?
The Israeli official understood immediately, apologized and vowed to initiate the procedure that very afternoon. And then he added: “We do hope you will understand. You see, we haven’t had an embassy in 2,000 years!”
And that’s my message to the Democrats (most of them), the Iraqis (some of them) and the world (a majority) about America's conduct of the war. You see, we’ve NEVER been brutally attacked on our own soil, leaving as many Americans dead as died at Pearl Harbor, and then gathered ourselves together and overthrew al-Qaeida’s launch pad, Afghanistan, and then set out to attack the one regional leader who most enjoyed seeing Americans killed and was the most capable of assisting al-Qaida in future strikes and making sure that he, Saddam Hussein, was stripped of his means of making other people miserable, tortured and dead.
Guess what! We’ve made mistakes in the war. We’re feeling our way. And along that way we’ve made formidable mistakes, we’re currently making others, and we’ll continue to make more. And we who support President Bush and consider the War on Terrorism the most important issue of all by far are even making mistakes trying to decide which of our actions were mistakes.
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