Broadcasting Grief: We should remember that misery breeds anger, not wisdom (Cindy Sheehan)

VDH'S Private Papers (Victor Davis Hanson) ^ | 16 August 2005 | Bruce Thornton

[shrinkermd]

The liberal media is delighted with Cindy Sheehan. This is the woman who lost a son in Iraq and has camped outside President Bush's Crawford Ranch, intending to stay until the President speaks with her or returns to Washington. For the reporters waiting around in the dusty heat of West Texas, Ms. Sheehan is a godsend, a dramatic, heart-wrenching story that gives the media both a telegenic drama and another opportunity for indulging their dislike of Bush and the war in Iraq.

[shrinkermd]

Better thinking and writing went into this brief essay than the horde of journalistic bombs hurled by both sides.

Victor Davis Hanson is surely one of the finer classical scholars and writers of this generation and his blog is well worth reading on a daily basis.

[Mount Athos]

I strongly disagree with the title.
Some of the greatest bits of wisdom have been brought forth by misery. I would even say that almost nothing is more likely to bring it forth.

That doesn't mean that every instance of misery brings wisdom.

[wildcatf4f3]

In the Greek- sophia means both knowledge and suffering

[AnAmericanMother]

Not in Classical Greek, according to my Liddell & Scott:

sofia -ih, h (sofos) cleverness or skill in art. 2. cleverness, skill, wisdom in common things, prudence: also cunning, shrewdness, craft. 3. perfect scientific knowledge, wisdom, philosophy.

[wildcatf4f3]

i need to sue a professor

[AnAmericanMother]

Get in line and take a number, I'm ahead of you 'cause I graduated in 1977! < g >

[AnAmericanMother]

And I got a free bonus when I looked it up . . .

Did you know that "Soros" (Soros) means a burial urn for ashes, or a coffin? Wonder if ol' George knows that?

[don-o]

Adding him to my daily must read. Thanks

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

To All the FReepers who wish they could have been in Crawford
to support President Bush and the Troops.

You do not have to be in Texas to show support for the Troops.

Visit your local military base today and at least once a week.

Or a military or veteran hospital.

If you can't do that then send an e-mail or packeage
to our troops for morale support.

Proud Patriots -
Sending care packages,
e-mails, and snail mail
to US Military worldwide.

http://www.proudpatriots.org

We need coast to coast support for the troops, now, more than ever.

I'll bet Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane are supplying funds and
morale support for the left.

We need to make an example of these 2 traitors from the 60's.

Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry isn't behind the anti war crowd needs to get a clue.

Spineless US Senate would rather protect Hanoi Kerry
than deal with the anti war crowd.

It's time to support our troops and ignore the jelly fish in the US Senate!

There is no need to impeach Hanoi Kerry from the US Senate

He is there illegally!

WAKEUP AMERICA!

For those who "forgot" what Hanoi Kerry
did in the past read on and learn the truth.

Hanoi Kerry was still a USNR officer while he:
gave false hearsay testimony to Congress
negotiated with the enemy
helped the US lose a war
abetted in the deaths of millions
created a hostile environment for all servicemen

Why is Kerry still in the US Senate?
This is in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html

And the FBI has proof of his treason.

Hanoi Kerry Timeline of a traitor
includes FBI files

May 1970
Kerry and Julia traveled to Paris, France and met with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), the political wing of the Vietcong, and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a "fact-finding" mission.

(U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.)

http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html

a) A person charged with absence without leave or missing movement in time of war,
or with any offense punishable by death,
may be tried at any time without limitation.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm#*%20843.%20ART.%2043.%20STATUTE%20OF%20LIMITATIONS

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212 LINKS
News reports,
Viper's Vietnam Veterans Page

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EXPOSE HANOI KERRY!

MUST SEE WEBSITE!!!!

http://www.kerrystreason.com/index.html

Full details on these url's!

http://stophanoikerry.150m.com

There is a backup site
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http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html

Did you see this...?
(The 'Kerry's Promise Counter')
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=6628
Polipundit even tells you how to install it on your own page!