America 2001: Putting the '70s behind us

Townhall ^ | September 18th 2001 | Bill Murchison

[Drew68]

And don't you love it?

Thank G-d the adults are back in charge.

OK everybody. LETS ROLL!!!

[FReethesheeples]

The subversive myth (lie) of "Moral equivalency" should have a Holy War waged against it!

[rogers21774]

It's not just about revenge as it trying to stop the bastards from doing something like this again. These terrorists aren't finished. As long as they are alive, they will try to strike again. And make no mistake, the next time could very well make 9.11 seem minor.

[VoodooEconomist]

The problem is that the real culprits are never made to pay for their dastardly deeds - and that includes American politicians, who would have been publicly hung many years ago. Civilians are always caught in the middle. The politicians that create and fan these wars profit immensely (power, money, ego, etc.). But it comes at a price - domestically and internationally. Part of that price is enduring the backlash from countries that hate our imperialism. However, that "price" is often paid for with the blood of innocent Americans ... and not the politicians who created the mess in the first place. The really sad thing about it all, is that Americans continue to prop up and defend those self-same politicians ... trusting them to "do right" - to exact revenge. And the whole vicious cycle begins anew. One day Americans will figure it all out - and the gig will be up. There will be hell to pay.

[Liberal Classic]

I'll just be happy when hip-hugger bell-bottoms are out of style again. :O

[Paul Atreides]

Who will be able to look at the multi-pierced, greasy, bell-bottomed freaks walking around now and think about the brave young people going to enlist without looking at those slackers with disgust?

[Paul Atreides]

Amen! And those Herman Munster shoes on women!

[Drew68]

The subversive myth (lie) of "Moral equivalency" should have a Holy War waged against it!

Amidst this unbelievable tragedy lays the ruins of contemporary American liberalism. The socialists in this country are seeing their destructive ideology crumble (for lack of a better pun). They are finished and it is starting to show.

[Drew68]

Folks - it was your "adults" who covertly gave arms and training to Bin Laden's affiliated Afghan guerillas during the Reagan years.

We had a more pressing concern during the 1980s in case you didn't know. The defeat of the Red Army by the Reagan-equipped Mujihadeen helped bring down Soviet Communism. That was our goal at the time. Much to your dismay, it was acheived. Get with the program or go back to DU.

Did you sign up today just to respond to this article?

[laconic]

The day before the mass murder in NY, the NY Times wrote a glowing piece on 60s rich boy radical Bill Ayers ("husband" of Days of Rager Bernadine Dohrn) and now "Distinguished Professor" of Education at the Univ. of Illinois in which he lamented that he and his fellow Weathermen hadn't set more bombs during the Vietnam era. He hasn't repented a bit, and the NYTimes was egging him on. These people are knaves, fools and hopefully, this awful tragedy has opened their eyes.

[MrB]

it was your "adults" who covertly gave arms and training to Bin Laden's affiliated Afghan guerillas

And the British made the mistake of arming the colonies in the French & Indian war.
The USA will clean up the problem of arming a group against a common enemy (at the time).

[oyez]

I think the word should be sent out the radical Islamics that we are not going to expend our galent troops, but we are going to send ship loads of multi-pierced, greasy, bell-bottomed freaks equiped with tatoo nedles and piercing guns. That should scare Hell out of them.

[cicero's_son]

mtemisan? Is that you?

Where are the rest of your Christic Institute buddies?

[shempy]

My enemy's enemy is my friend. It might be dirty at times, but it is necisary to survival. Clinton followed your advice, making it impossible to work with less than squaky clean foreign agents to gather human intelligence. Osam bin Laden would most likely be dead all ready if our human intelligence network was functioning.

What is your solution, wise-ass? Keep blaming America?

[borkrules]

So you're going to go in and take all your weapons back?

Nope. We're going to KILL them. Follow me? You smell what I'm cooking?

Good.

Now shut up.

[cicero's_son]

Alterego is the poster formerly known as mtemisan, a known mole for the Christic Institute.

These are the people who invented the term "vast right-wing conspiracy" back when Clinton was limited to raping women in Arkansas hotel rooms.

[beckett]

Murchison makes a bad error. The song Where Have All the Flowers Gone, from which he takes the lines "When will they ev-er LEARN? When will they EVVVV-er learn?", and which he ascribes to Bob Dylan, was actually written by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson.

Dylan wouldn't be caught dead writing such sappy lyrics.

And interestingly, just recently (but before Sept. 11) Dylan was singing the praises of the Founding Fathers of the United States, calling them some of the most wise men who ever lived.