Posted on 03/19/2007 1:07:20 PM PDT by jmc1969
Gandhi's Way Isn't the American Way Collective suicide is no foreign policy.
By Fred Thompson
I feel bad for Nancy Pelosi, AND her neighbors. Anti-war activists from the group Code Pink have been giving her the same treatment the president gets at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. Camping on her San Francisco lawn, they’re demanding she cut off funds to the troops in Iraq.
Besides coolers and mattresses, protesters have brought along a giant paper mache statue of Mahatma Gandhi, who is pretty much the symbol of the anti-war movement. Code Pink was founded on his birthday, and when Saddam Hussein was being given a last chance to open Iraq to U.N. weapons inspectors, posters appeared around America asking “What would Gandhi do?”
And that’s a pretty good question. At what point is it okay to fight dictators like Saddam or the al Qaeda terrorists who want to take his place?
It turns out that the answer, according to Gandhi, is NEVER. During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender to the Nazis. Later, when the extent of the holocaust was known, he criticized Jews who had tried to escape or fight for their lives as they did in Warsaw and Treblinka. “The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife,” he said. “They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” “Collective suicide,” he told his biographer, “would have been heroism.”
The so-called peace movement certainly has the right to make Gandhi’s way their way, but their efforts to make collective suicide American foreign policy just won’t cut it in this country. When American’s think of heroism, we think of the young American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking their lives to prevent another Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein.
Gandhi probably wouldn't approve, but I can live with that.
I used to watch Law & Order but I got sick and tired of every perp being a well-off white person. According to that show, most murders are committed by uppity conservative white folk.
Don't get me started on the anti-conservative banter between the characters.
That's a great piece by Fred Thompson. I can just hear him saying it, too!
Another Hollywierd-0.
He was always a self-important little jerk. I think he wrote a book about UFO's or conspiracy theories so that goes to show what he knows.
See you guys just don't get it. Actors and actresses spend all of their time reading newspapers, journals in between memorizing their lines.
In between movies they go to international strategic studies symposiums, theater of operations conventions and national security briefings with the President of the west wing and 24.
Donchoo guys see man, it's a riddle wrapped in a bagel, surrounded by a tragic irony man....man it's just too big for you.
I think a good DI is the one from "Full Metal Jacket". If I remember right, he was a retired DI from the Marines.
Richard Belzer - washed out of a community college PE curriculum.
Fred Thompson - JD, first known as a prosecuting attorney before he set foot in Hollywierd
Where's the barf alert? What a load of crap.
My dad was a Marine D.I. during the Korean War.....I bet he could "drill" some sense into this idiot.
I love him on Law and Order, but he's a liberal loon. I've never cared for his stand-up act at all.
Yeah, I think that was the idea, to put a headline out there that would shake people up about FDT.
Even now I'll wager alot of folks saw the headline and did not read further.
And I'll wager further that FDT would never dream of saying such a thing even if it were part of a TV script.
The only person who could think to say such a thing is a braindead liberal, and the association with Bill Maher "Terrorists are Heros" is all you need to know.
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Is it a sort of hobby for some wealthy people to be socialists?
Skip college + read 20 newspapers a day = Doctorate of Liberal Intellectualism.
He was indeed. R. Lee Ermey was originally hired as a technical consultant for "Full Metal Jacket", and was given the role of the DI when he demonstrated to Kubrick that what the scriptwriters wrote was all wrong. He has since parlayed that portrayal into a fine gig on cable tv, called "Mail Call", which involves exposing the audience to both current, and obsolete military hardware...
the infowarrior
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