Posted on 06/20/2003 7:00:18 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
20 posted on 06/22/2003 6:56 PM EDT by mystery-ak (The War is not over for me until my hubby's boots hit U.S. soil.)
The heart of the matter. And yes, World Opinion can writhe impaled on my pitchfork. They're lucky Dubya is so moderate. Left up to me, the rest of the world would be convinced America Has Gone Mad and would be tiptoe-ing around us with great trepidation.
No, I think they know that. That's why they try to weaken us at every turn, try to sabotage our economy, decimate our military, and draw us down into the stagnant Marxist vortex that has swallowed the might of Europe. They know we can't be strong and be loved, and they chose to try and be loved.
As if every other country in the world never acts, only reacts. Everything that happens everywhere is just a reaction to an action by the United States. It's an amazingly simple-minded argument, isn't it? Yet so many people embrace it ardently.
Thank you for that visual. (^:
Fourth, for all the doom and gloom we are making amazing progress. If on the evening of September 11th, an outside observer had predicted that the following would transpire in two years, he would have been considered unhinged: Saddam Hussein gone with the wind; democratic birth pangs in Iraq; the Taliban finished and Mr. Karzai attempting to create constitutional government; Yasser Arafat ostracized by the American government and lord of a dilapidated compound; bin Laden either dead or leading a troglodyte existence; all troops slated to leave Saudi Arabia — and by our own volition, not theirs; Iran and Syria apprehensive rather than boastful about their own promotion of terror; and the Middle East worried that the United States is both unpredictable in its righteous anger and masterful in its use of arms, rather than customarily irresolute and reactive.
Between 1946 and today there are, after all, too many books, academic departments, careers, reporters, and anchormen who have institutionalized notions of moral equivalence, multiculturalism, and Western pathology from a safe and comfortable distance. But all that pessimism and self-doubt does not mean that we are failing, or that we should cease our present efforts. In fine, we are now engaged in one of the most ambitious, perilous, and radical undertakings in our history — and we are ever so slowly winning.
Our pols are under attack from the leftist and anti-American spec. int. groups while most Republicans are minding their own businesses and families.
The disconnect between the press and reality in Iraq - partly explained by this DNC script written before the war. Press is a VLWC - case closed:
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