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Peggy Noonan: The Phony War
Opinion Journal ^
| 11/09/2001
| Peggy Noonan
Posted on 11/08/2001 8:08:01 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:03:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Like Britain in 1939, we're at war but not yet in it.
That was an interesting speech President Bush gave last night in Georgia. Its subject was homeland security, and in terms of content, style and tone it seemed to be, essentially, nothing new. And yet by the end and after reading it, I thought: He's telling us a great deal here.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: noonan
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:08:02 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: summer; Miss Marple; Howlin; mombonn; *Peggy Noonan list
Ping and indexing.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:09:47 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78; buffyt; ladyinred; WolfsView; prognostigaator; anniegetyourgun; Richard Axtell...
Thanks, Pokey78, for all the hard work you do around here =^)
To: JohnHuang2
You da man, JH2....YOU DA MAN!
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:14:51 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Thanks for the flag on this, Pokey.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:16:28 PM PST
by
summer
To: Pokey78
;^)
To: Pokey78
. One of the defectors told the Times the terrorists receiving training came from Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Hmmm, all those mentioned countries are Islamic countries. Must be a coincidence especially since Bush said Islam is a religion of peace.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:17:31 PM PST
by
Lent
To: Pokey78
Along the way he announced as his subject "how to live"--Tolstoy's great question, which suggests someone in speechwriting has been hitting "War and Peace."More likely, browsing Francis Schaeffer titles . . . but not the contents thereof.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:17:47 PM PST
by
Ironword
To: Pokey78
The new war has given shape, form and historical purpose to his presidency. My sense is that he walked into office knowing huge history was coming but not knowing when, what, where. Now he knows. I can quite imagine him thinking, This is the reason I'm here.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:18:32 PM PST
by
woofie
To: AbsoluteGrace
If you see something by Peggy Noonan, its generally a good idea to read it. If you see her on a talking face show, she is the best face to watch too. IMO anyway.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:19:13 PM PST
by
abner
To: Pokey78
Hope she's right. How'd you pick this up so fast? Obviously she wrote from her advance copy of the speech ... but still???
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:19:19 PM PST
by
mercy
To: Pokey78
Thank you for the good post.
To: Pokey78
BTTT
To: Pokey78
Wait a minute!! William Jefferson Blythe Klinton gave a speech, too. Uh,.......never mind.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:24:05 PM PST
by
Mark
To: Pokey78
This is a keeper -- or should I say, "another" keeper from the pen of Peggy Noonan! Her observations, like her writing, are profound.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:24:27 PM PST
by
onyx
To: Lent
Starting to feel like all those American Indians, who upon looking at the advancing hordes of Englishmen, Scotsmen, Irishmen, and Germans in the northeast, the Frenchmen and Spaniards in the south, the Russians in the northwest, and asked eachother "I thought the chief said that Christianity was a religion of peace?"
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:26:57 PM PST
by
piasa
To: Pokey78
Please put me and AbsoluteGrace on the Peggy Noonan ping list.
AbsoluteGrace is shy, but would appreciate the flag. LOL!
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:27:55 PM PST
by
abner
To: Pokey78
thanks... good post!
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:28:10 PM PST
by
piasa
To: abner
Done and done.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:30:27 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78; AbsoluteGrace
Thank you. I & AG appreciate it.
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posted on
11/08/2001 8:31:58 PM PST
by
abner
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