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R.I.P. [Jeanne Kirkpatrick Passes Away]
National Review Online ^ | 12/08/06 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 12/08/2006 6:23:57 AM PST by untenured

R.I.P. I just heard the news that Jeane Kirkpatrick passed away last night. More to follow, I'm sure.


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To: untenured
Quotes from Jeanne Kirkpatrick:

"What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving."

"Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors." -- Jeane Kirkpatrick talking about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which she termed "a letter to Santa Claus".[1]

"When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the "blame America first crowd" didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first. . . . The American people know better." - Speech delivered at the 1984 Republican National Convention

"Because the miseries of traditional life are familiar, they are bearable to ordinary people who, growing up in the society, learn to cope and therefore accept the fact that wealth, power, status and other resources favor an affluent few while traditional autocrats maintain the masses in misery. So therefore our lack of concern is quite proper; indeed, quite decent and moral because the lower orders feel no pain." - 1979

"When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies. They blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they always blame America first." [2]

"Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war." [3

41 posted on 12/08/2006 6:42:08 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: untenured

Loved that Lady! Prayers up for all.


42 posted on 12/08/2006 6:42:13 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (Prayers-beyond your expectations!)
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To: Mo1
In Memoriam: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 1926-2006

 

AEI senior fellow Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who joined the Institute in 1978, died yesterday. As a young political scientist at Georgetown University, Kirkpatrick wrote the first major study of the role of women in modern politics, Political Woman, which was published in 1974. Her work on the McGovern-Fraser Commission, which was formed in the aftermath of the Democratic Party's tumultuous 1968 convention and changed the way party delegates were chosen, led to Dismantling the Parties: Reflections on Party Reform and Party Decomposition, which AEI published in 1978. Yet it was an essay written for Commentary magazine in 1979, "Dictatorships and Double Standards," that launched her into the political limelight. In the article, Kirkpatrick chronicled the failures of the Carter administration's foreign policy and argued for a clearer understanding of the American national interest. Her essay matched then-governor Ronald Reagan's instincts and convictions, and when he became president, he appointed her to represent the United States at the United Nations. Ambassador Kirkpatrick was a member of the president's cabinet and the National Security Council. The United States has lost a great patriot and champion of freedom, and AEI mourns our beloved colleague.

 

Source: AEI 

43 posted on 12/08/2006 6:43:04 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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Her changing parties along with Reagan was the catalyst for me changing parties but I contend neither her or I changed, the Democrats left their core values behind.


44 posted on 12/08/2006 6:43:24 AM PST by kcbob (Rats - we always get 100% of the dead cemetery voters)
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To: jellybean

Ms. Kirkpatrick....please say hello To President Reagan for all of us.


45 posted on 12/08/2006 6:43:38 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: untenured

Sympathy and prayers for a fine lady...and another example of why Reagan was a great president!


46 posted on 12/08/2006 6:43:52 AM PST by meandog ( Reagan: Now that was a president...Oh God, how I wish he were in the White House now!)
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To: untenured

That's too bad about Jeanne Kirkpatrick.

She was suppose to be the speaker at my graduation at the Univ of Oklahoma in 1984 until they dumped her late in the game so the governor, who just happened to be running for reelection and happened to be a demoncrap, could give the address...

I was really looking forward hearing her that year...


47 posted on 12/08/2006 6:44:50 AM PST by Proverbs 3-5
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To: untenured

We acknowledge the passing of a great American. Many thanks, Jean Kirkpatrick.


48 posted on 12/08/2006 6:45:29 AM PST by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser and Shalit, we are praying for you)
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To: Bahbah

In the mold of Maggie Thatcher......... Not many women of this caliber. RIP


49 posted on 12/08/2006 6:47:43 AM PST by umgud (I love NASCAR as much as the Democrats hate Bush)
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To: untenured

This is the ONLY woman I would have considered for President. She had a great mind, was articulate, "a lady" (something Hillary isn't) and had a good handle on world affairs.


50 posted on 12/08/2006 6:47:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: untenured

She and I attended the same college (a few years apart!), and she came back one year to speak when I was a student. It was a great speech. There was a very elderly alumnae in the audience who kept interrupting her with praise and applause,and she handled with class and humor.


51 posted on 12/08/2006 6:48:15 AM PST by pesto
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To: untenured

needed now more than ever.


52 posted on 12/08/2006 6:48:23 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: untenured
RIP.

They said that saving Grenada from terror and totalitarianism was the wrong thing to do - they didn't blame Cuba or the communists for threatening American students and murdering Grenadians - they blamed the United States instead.

But then, somehow, they always blame America first.

When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the "blame America first crowd" didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States.

But then, they always blame America first.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

But then, they always blame America first.

When Marxist dictators shoot their way to power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States policies of 100 years ago.

But then, they always blame America first.

The American people know better.

Jeane Kirkpatrick, speaking at the 1984 GOP convention

53 posted on 12/08/2006 6:49:08 AM PST by jdm
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To: untenured

God Bless, Jeanne Kirkpatrick. May she rest in peace.


54 posted on 12/08/2006 6:49:45 AM PST by griswold3 (I cried when I erased my tagline....)
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To: jdm

Here's another quote from that wonderful speech, actually it's her quoting the late French intellectual Jean Francois Revel (author of "How Democracies Perish"):

"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself."

Those words apply even more today than they did a generation ago.


55 posted on 12/08/2006 6:51:16 AM PST by Numbers Guy
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To: untenured

One of the great ones, along with Lady Thatcher and the greatest President in U.S. history save Washigton and perhaps Lincoln.


56 posted on 12/08/2006 6:52:42 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Numbers Guy

Don't they though.


57 posted on 12/08/2006 6:55:31 AM PST by James Ewell Brown Stuart (If you want to have a good time, jine the cavalry!)
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To: Rummyfan
After reading those quotes I am even more impressed with her. Our country will be worse for her passing.

I expect another typical mediocrity will soon be named to the UN ambassadorship instead of someone like Kirkpatrick or Bolton to appease the Dems. Republicans appease the Dems and the Dems appease our enemies.

58 posted on 12/08/2006 6:55:45 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Baker's Iraq Surrender Group - warming up the last helicopter out of Baghdad.)
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To: meandog
A mere 20 years ago, we had giants in our country and the international scene, best epitomized by President Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Prime Minister Thatcher, the three world leaders who were most responsible for the fall of Communism. Jeanne Kirkpatrick was cut from the same cloth that they were. The current front runners for the 2008 Presidential nomination, Republican or Democrat, are not worthy to polish any of their shoes. May God once again provide America and the West leaders of the caliber of Reagan, Wojtyla, Thatcher, and Kirkpatrick to confront radical Islam and the resurgent Communist powers.
59 posted on 12/08/2006 6:57:15 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: untenured

R.I.P.


60 posted on 12/08/2006 6:57:17 AM PST by newzjunkey (Prepare. President Rodham, 01-20-09. VP Richardson?)
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