Posted on 11/20/2005 1:41:06 PM PST by rellimpank
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: What next, a 'War Against the Drag Bunt'?
It's widely asserted we're fighting a "war on terror." But that's absurd.
Terror is a tactic -- an attempt to undermine the morale of a much stronger foe, whom the "terrorists" know they cannot defeat in traditional battle.
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When we sent John Paul Jones to burn the shipping (and steal some silverware) in the English port of Whitehaven during the American Revolution, that was an attempt at terrorism -- engaging English non-combatants (who had little if any say in their King's colonial wars) on the home front in an attempt to convince the British Parliament that this seemingly remote and distant war was not a good idea, when we knew darned well our fledgling Navy wouldn't have stood a chance in a fleet action against the Royal Navy.
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What a moron to write something like this... Our fore fathers did not fly a plane full of innocent men and women into skyscrapers full of people.
Well it may not be stupid, but it's a good impersonation of stupid.
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