Dane-Geld

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[SES1066]

... I am being sarcastic.

Whew, I'm glad you said that, I was about to unleash Mjölnir, Thor's Hammer, in your defense! [grin] The leavening of the Scandinavian cousins in their various incursions and settlements over Europe during the 'Viking' Era, probably is why I get sunburned so easily!

[Clive]

My initial comment was not an ad hominem attack.

I was not attacking a specific person, but was merely observing that the peacenicks are out in force.

My post 13 was a statement of what I wish, not an expression of impatience (BTW It is what I believe that Bush wishes also.)

From what I have seen so far, I think (with a few minor quibbles) that the US response is appropriate and measured.

I posted the poem in response to a gathering movement that argues foe doing nothing except "addressing root causes".

To "address root causes" over the corpses of 7,000 murdered citizens before having punished the murderers is, in my opinion, appeasement of the worst sort. It is paying Dane-geld.

Dane, I don't thimk that you and I disagree in essentials. We simply have different manners of making our points.

[xm177e2]

Oh BTW, I do see the irony of me posting on this thread.

If I respond to you, am I only encouraging you to return to this thread?

[Hacksaw]

Oh Yeah?

Well, just check out this prose I penned a mere couple of weeks ago. My check from the National Endowment for the Arts is expected shortly:

Nuke the Arab Mullahs
And make Mecca glow
Shoot them full of bullets
As their ruptured innards blow

Behead Osama the pig
Display his head on a pike
Kidnap his fifty sons
And name them all Mike

Slap Suddam in the face
And set his moustache on fire
Burn his houses to the ground
That is what we will do to this liar

Grab the Ayatollahs
And rib their beards out by the hair
As we irradiate the ground
Of their God-forsaken lair

When we see Palestinians
Dancing happily in the street
We will send a cruise missile
To warm their sandal clad feet.

Lay waste to their camels
Spit some loogies in their eye
As we watch their smelly riders
Realize they all will DIE!

Copyright Hacksaw

[LarryLied]

I was 13 when I went to Tivoli gardens in 1965. It changed my life. The men's room had machines with pictures of women on them. Of course I had to drop in a Kroner. No woman came out. Just this plastic thing.

[Dane]

Dane, I don't thimk that you and I disagree in essentials. We simply have different manners of making our points

Very true. I "assumed"(and if you break that word down you get the true meaning of the word) that you were equating appeasement with "non-action"(so far).

Sorry about jumping the gun, but on many threads on FR these days, if you advocate "patience", a person becomes Neville Chamberlain incarnate.

[Dane]

I was 13 when I went to Tivoli gardens in 1965. It changed my life. The men's room had machines with pictures of women on them. Of course I had to drop in a Kroner. No woman came out. Just this plastic thing.

Not so much different than the US. The men's rooms in gas stations that our family would stop at on our way on our vacation to the beach had the same kind of machines.

I guess the only difference between the Tivoli Garden men's room and a US gas station men's room, is that the Tivoli Garden's men's room had clean sinks, toilet paper, and no phone numbers of "Betty Lou" scribbled with magic marker on the wall.

[LarryLied]

But...back in 1965, our restrooms were clean too. And there weren't the men around leering at young boys. Ancedtoal evidence sure....but that was my experience. I never had to say no in a Texaco Station. I did, at 14, all over Europe.