Posted on 09/02/2004 9:09:58 PM PDT by quidnunc
The summer and fall have been and will be momentous: national political conventions, elections slated in Afghanistan and here at home, the Olympics, high gas prices, and near cultural hysteria, whether measured by Fahrenheit 9/11 or the Swift-boat ads. But brace yourself — this is only the beginning.
We should expect not only the dirtiest election in years, but also some real challenges the United States has not experienced since 1941.
Almost every day, al Qaeda suspects or affiliated terrorists are arrested somewhere in the world. Islamic fascists blow up Israelis, behead Nepalese, murder Russians children in schools and on the street, and kidnap French journalists (so much for appeasement). They want to destroy trains in New York as they did in Madrid. They seek to ruin democracy in Kabul and Baghdad and take down Russian airliners. Nearly each week they are caught forming cells in Europe and the United States — all akin in their desire for theocracy, incoherent demands, partiality for barbarous methods of killing civilians, and hatred of Western-style liberalism and freedom.
Now we learn that they may well turn their attention to targeted assassinations here at home — in the manner in which Osama bin Laden took out General Massoud of the Northern Alliance on the eve of the September 11 attacks, and like the various efforts to incinerate General Musharraf in Pakistan. The problem is not only that such efforts would be aimed at short-circuiting the nerve center of the United States, but also that previous reckless talk on the part of some cultural elites at home would only accentuate the turmoil.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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Boy HOWDY! Like my friend says sometimes - "Get ready for an E Ticket ride"!
You may have to translate that for the under 30 crowd.
See you tomorrow night.
Hee hee hee. I will probably be there for about an hour.
If I pay the ransom and show up on time this time, can I get my chair back???
LOL
As I keep saying, we need a "Manhattan Project" for energy independence based on crash construction of nuclear power plants [short-circuit the 'intervenors', lawsuits, environmental impact reports, etc...] and accelerated exploitation of methane clathrates together with drilling ANWR and other (so far forbidden) offshore resources.
We could be free of the Arabs in 10 years--or less. The President needs to get Congress to pass enabling legislation or do it by Presidential order; whichever will stand the howls of indignation from the eco-leftists and their fellow travellers...
--Boris
Sobering words after such a glorious evening with our
President. When Hanson speaks,, I listen hard.
I wonder how big the spread/win has to be, to hold the
loony Left in check. I'm thinking 10 points to keep their
ACLU buddies out of at least that many state supreme courts, come December.
I want to say that today is so much like the conditions here during the Vietnam War -- only worse because other crises of a generation ago such as energy are piled on, new crises such as war here at home, and this time it's for all the marbles.
Bump
VDH nails it every time.....
Hear Hear
Wow. In the 2nd sentence in the 2nd-to-last paragraph, VDH admits to being a lifelong Democrat.
Sobering article.
Amazing. Thanks for the link.
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Well, I think the time is perfect for the President to open the discussion about nuke plants. We are way too dependent on foreign oil, and if we don't have to burn oil to create electricity, that could be used for making gasoline, and it will reduce what we need from overseas. With the war going on and the possibility of terrorism disrupting oil supplies and sending the price soaring, I think most people would be open to the nukes idea, and dismiss the squealings of the enviro-wackos. There have been many innovations in the design and construction of nuke plants all over the world. We don't have to build big huge plants; we could do smaller ones that would handle large cities, then go with a regional type facility for a bunch of smaller towns. It just take some vision and some guts, which our President has in great supply!
Agreed. The only question, besides when GW will take care of Iran, is what honest democrats will do about their party.
I walked into a S.F. bookstore looking for Unfit For Command and didn't find it, but did find Checkpoint. It's a tiny, short book. I breezed through it in about 45 minutes just so I could say that I didn't judge it before reading it.
My verdict? I'm no envirowacko, but it's sad trees died to make that book. It's an extended rant on how rotten Bush and Cheney are, and the GOP, and how although the Democrats are corrupt too, they aren't as bad.
There was ONE surprise. Baker submits that the Democrats would still be in charge of all three branches of government if it wasn't for their slavish devotion to abortion on demand.
All in all, not worth the money or the controversy. If you want to know the ending, right-click and drag across the below space:
The guy who brought a gun to kill Bush is talked out of it by his friend. The guy was nuts anyway -- he thought he had magic bullets that would seek out their target.
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