Posted on 04/02/2006 6:01:57 AM PDT by oxcart
I have a favorite quote for the pacificists:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill
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AMEN! Good article, by the way - thanks for posting it.
Excellent - and true.
Absolutely bingo!
Great quote. Thanks.
They do not follow God.
These little people are out only to boost their own sense of inferiority.
The god they follow is stupidity and in that boat are all Muslims also!
Great quote. If I am not mistaken, he also said something very close to: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon our enemies".
Excellent quote! My daughter is a senior at Univ of Tex. She said the "pacifists" are mean. She is afraid to upset them with hew views because she said they get angry easily and they will throw bottles and rocks at you. She said they have peace buttons all over their smelly hippy backpacks. She wants to buy some conservative buttons and put them on their backpacks while they aren't looking! She has one class, geography, where in the first week most of the students said "I don't care about making a lot of money" After FIVE years in college to get an education and a good job, she was thinking to herself "Geez I am in the wrong class!!!!" She knows it takes a lot of money just to pay the mortgage/rent, car payment, utilities, food, insurance, etc etc etc. She has priorities. She doesn't intend to live in a van down by the river nor does she plan to protest against her own country!
These groups would be the ones making sure there were straight lines and no shoving while marching to the gas chambers. Who do they think got them released ...Jimmy Carter's Sunday School class? What about their compatriot who was tortured and then shot in the head? I'm sure they are blaming Bush for that. These people make me want to puke.
I have often wondered just how involved in their own "kidnappings" these idiots are. It soothes me a bit to know that they ALWAYS get more than they bargained for when they find out that the terrorists aren't exactly what they fantasized.
These "peace activists" are exactly what Rush said they are: lonely, unimportant little people who do not matter. They want desperately to be involved, somehow so as to NOT feel as unimportant as they are.
These had no business being in a war zone, no reason to be there, but wanted to do something, ANYTHING to assuage their pathetic little egos.
These morons are no different from those we have been seeing since VietNam.
They claim to be against violence yet condone these same people that violently murdered their driver and translator. They had guns so I wonder why they're willing to protect and assist them to kill more than assist us so that we can prevent the very thing they're against...more killing.
That was, I believe, George Orwell.
so true.
Yes, Orwell. Thanks.
I know you have thought of these matters. Would you agree that these people are way off base in refusing to cooperate with the authorities in the cited instance?
My two cents: I believe they are free to believe as they choose, right up to the point that their beliefs place others in danger. They have crossed that line and should be held accountable for aiding and abetting.
"We live in a great and free country only because our forefathers were willing to wage war rather than accept the peace that spells destruction."
--Teddy Roosevelt
I've been waiting for months to see something in print exposing these phony, "Rachel Corrie Wannabees" and the author of this piece really nailed it!
My negative thoughts about wimpy, pacifist Canadians have
been challenged by this excellent article.
Thanks for the post.
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