Godless: The Church of Liberalism
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When our troops came under a bloody attack in Somalia in 1993, President Clinton ordered a humiliating retreat - on the advice of John Murtha. Calling on Clinton to pull the troops out, Murtha said, "Our welcome has been worn out" - which I think is the essence of battlefield valor: the ability to know when staying another minute would just be tacky. And sure enough, perhaps out of force of habit, Clinton pulled out before finishing. Our troops emerged from a typically incompetent Clintonian mission with unvarnished heroism. They didn't run, Clinton ordered their retreat - a retreat that was later specifically cited by Osama bin Laden as proving to al Qaeda fighters that America was a "paper tiger." After a few blows, bin Laden said, America would run in defeat, "dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat."
LOL!!
If there's one person on this earth who's got Bill Clinton's number, it's Ann Coulter.
Aaaaaand, look at Mogadishu today.
I was just reading that page this afternoon. Great book so far.
I was just reading that page this afternoon. Great book so far.