Posted on 08/27/2005 4:51:10 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
We have to be patient.
God has His own timetable.
Hitchens is no conservative, in fact he is a self-avowed anarchist, but I am glad that his mother ship left him here for a little while. I love W and all of his people but they had no idea of what they have swerved into by their Iraq policy. It is all a crazy happenstance. We are better off for having this great president and for Tony Blair and the other far sighted. There is a God and she is wonderful.
Does your work involve play "Craps"?
The last time I heard "Baby needs new shoes", it was about 1964 and we were 'rolling bones' in a Chicago alley and someone was trying to make 'four the hard way'
:-)
Excellent post
Yes, life was far more simpler, then. This brewing bruaha (sp) has been building since pre-Vietnam. This split in method and ideology. I think back to Clinton/Gore in their "let's dialogue" (truth to power) type of ideology -- which is, in fact, what the pacificists assert -- that mere words can make the world a better place. When in fact, "mere words" has brought about politically correctness, overlegalization, frivolous lawsuits, and "words equal "rape" (a la MacKinnon/Dworkin model). It booned lawyers. The ones who benefit are those allied with, if not themselves, lawyers. Ipso, the ICC.
This "words" to peace ideology has brokered... "what is the meaning of "is"", and permits thugs like Saddam to define for HIMSELF and all who lived with Iraq, what the meaning of "sanctions and laws" were. Moral relativism.
I think we've seen, that this ideology of pacificist "words" equals cowardice on the largest order -- giving haven to those who pull and ply a moral relativist position on words, honor, mutual respect, and civility.
The people of America bought this bilge. Many wanted to believe in this new "sacred altar" of the left. That mere peace could be brokered by mere words. This has never been so, and recorded history proves this, when dealing with those who do not uphold "life" and "freedom for all". The moral relativist re-shifted the paradigm of "thought, word, and deed" to be on the order of "lie, author it and get your pals to support it, then protest. They misrepresented the Trinity to fit their humanistic agenda.
In the 70s, feminists actually did suggest that one could "talk" a rapist out of raping them. Assuredly, this can happen only very, very limitedly; but is a very bad rule to live by.
How did this "words" thing grow? Well, every single study in child psyche institutes proffered that little girls are far more verbal than boys; whereas little boys are more action-oriented.
The liberals posited that these were biologic behaviors were the result of "man-made" cultural institutions in behavior, and sought to change the world to being more "word friendly" (as in female-biased).
The liberal churches used the "Word" friendly, to alter scripture for the masses who attended church.
In short form, a very, very different war was launched upon America -- a psychologic war -- so difficult to name, to point.
I've done field work in the "abuse fields". One thing very true? Physical battery is fairly easy to detect and to prove; but emotional and verbal battery? No. Not at all easy to prove. And this then, was the nature of the war waged upon many cultures -- that of "emotional and verbal".
So, with this war, a newer arsenal had to be built.
And is yet being constructed.
And the liberal "word" masters, don't even see the sand disappearing under their feet. MSM is still trying to hold the line for the "word" masters, and they recognize their support and credibility is crumbling, and so they try newer approaches to using modern technology in order to revive their "word-war" games.
The MSM has a vested interest in not letting the facts about Saddam's connections come out, because they were one of the connections.
The MSM is corrupt.
The U.N. is corrupt.
France and Germany and Russia are corrupt
AND my caps lock shift key is broken>
As much as I hate to say it, the administration is at a loss on just how to do this. They do pressers and release statements and some do the talk show circuit, but it's no match for the slick sloganeering coming out of the left.
One reason is that the left isn't reliant on TRUTH when writing their slogans. Another is that if they hire a PR agency like Cindy and her 70 member (including the bogus ones) protest group, the left will preemptively project the usual acusations at it. Also, we on the right are terribly inexperienced with the left's word games and don't believe in constant repition of lies in order to brainwash the masses, which makes sloganeering more difficult.
It LOOKS like a lose lose scenario for the administration, which is exactly the left's intent. I believe we've got to actively look for some good, CONVERVATIVE PR people and preemptively announce that we're FORCED to in self defense, in order to counter the left.
BTTT
Bookmarked
OUTSTANDING!
BRAVO!
Even that wouldn't matter to them. Neither would rock-solid evidence that Iraq was fully-involved with 9/11.
The polarization of this nation has become so complete that victory at the polls(for the left) supercedes victory against a common enemy.
Republicans no longer have a 'loyal-opposition' in the form of the Democrat party... they face a media-driven, leftist-socialist cabal dedicated to reform this nation from its own ashes.
It's not the left we have to worry about; their views have hardened into fossils.
It's the uninvolved, and largely ignorant middle-of-the-roaders who listen to the MSM with half an ear, read only the headlines in the local bird-cage liners and are so preoccupied with their own narrow concerns that they fail to see the dark cloud that advances upon us, fueled by the alliance of an historically violent religion and the anti-American left worldwide.
By the administration's wanting to have its cake -- the wholly necessary war -- and eat it too -- keep the economy rolling without hiccup -- they have failed to both initiate a dialogue about the nature of the enemy -- radical Islam -- or to even name it, and they have failed to secure the borders in direct contradiction to the threat of massive Islamic infiltration which Europe now faces.
As a result, we risk losing that all-important middle,and consequently, the war.
Hitch Ping
Hitch Ping
BTTT
Brilliant piece..and congrats to one of our newest American citizens..
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The generals were brought up under the Clinton regime.
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