Please copy, email, print, send to any and every American you care to. Never forget.
Posted on 11/12/2001 1:59:35 PM PST by truth4all
The suffering by the innocent children, women and the elderly that will inevitibly result from this assault upon terrorism will be horrible, but will be merely an inconvenience in comparision to what turning the other cheek to terrorists will result in.
The line is drawn in the dirt before the holes in which the terrorist snakes cower. They may live in the darkness they crave, or die. The choice is their's.
I believe the sheep shall one day lie down by the lion, but until the lion has been defanged,de-clawed and developed an appetite for veggies, only the lion will get up. I believe the meek shall inherit the earth, but only after the aggressors are tamed.
Dying is no fun but it is less embarrassing than living under tyranny.
In all, this fellow delivers a Oprahized version of the lefties' narcissistic vision of the world--that America is the center of it, and this American has the cure. The article's aim is to reaffirm anti-Americanism and deflect criticism and responsibility and reexamination of the Arab' world's own faults. Cearly the present crisis is a threat to the left's vision of the world.
Please copy, email, print, send to any and every American you care to. Never forget.
The Taliban - and the rest of the tribes in Afghanistan for that matter - don't respect anyone who is weak. They live a hard life, averaging only 46 years. The weak in their world live much shorter than that. They didn't like the Soviets, but they respected and feared them. Complaints about collateral damage and striking of "civilian targets" is horse$hit. No nation on earth has EVER gone to such great lengths to avoid killing civilians in a military conflict as this one. If we, as the leading nation of the free world want to eliminate terrorism, we had better earn their fear and respect. They aren't ever going to like us - that's the entire reason that they are trying to kill us. If we succeed in making them at least fear us, and take away their ability to predict what our reaction will be to their strikes, then their attacks will stop. We will have effectively terrorized the terrorists. This is a simple case of good versus evil. Religion is only the shield that OBL hides behind for his Saudi masters. Once the world realizes that we finally have a President in the White House instead of a Resident, and that our President is going to look out for the nation rather than his own interests, the respect and fear that we deserve will once again be in place. The pacifists would rather that we deal with terrorists from a position of weakness. That is why they are pacifists - they LIKE TO BE THE VICTIM. That is about as un-American as it gets, and thank God that x42 is out of power. With luck, our entire political system will soon be rid of the closet communists (53 of them in the 'Rat party), and it will no longer be considered acceptable to be politically correct. These pacifists don't tolerate my views - such as yourself - so why the hell should I listen to theirs? In a conservative forum, no less. This garbage belongs over at Antiwar.com, the DU, or Hillary.com. Whether or not I'm referring to you there is up to you to decide. If the shoe fits....
I've got your parrot right here, Gimlet. Stuffed and mounted. And yes, it did taste like chicken.
As much as Zinn may long for the day when armies massed upon the plains and did battle a la Napoleon or the Romans, prisitnely isolated from the civilian world, it ain't gonna happen. That day is done and gone (and come to think of it, it never really existed, except in tabletop miniature games). So long as modern combatants hide among civilians, civilians will die. An ugly truth is no less a truth for being unattractive and distasteful.
The result: they killed 5,000 innocents in an attack on our industry and seats of government and defense leadership.
It is a just cause, it is past time for a just war. We are conducting it in a manner designed to minimize the slaughter of innocents. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of innocent lives are being saved by our actions to stop these murderers.
Zinn is at least an uninformed fool, at best a misguided heart. He should be patted on the head and sent to play in the corner where no one can be influenced by his feelgood self-righteous brain dumps.
Hmmm. Kind of describes Britian during the bombings by the Luftwaffe doesn't it? I guess NO WAR could be considered justified by this guy.
Many people had already FLED the towns and cities of Afghanistan precisely BECAUSE of the brutality of the Taliban who bombed THEIR way into Kabul after the Russians were defeated. Many people are having to leave now because the Taliban placed military installations and supplies IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS, making those areas targets for bombs.
George McGovern was a bomber pilot in WW2. Yet there is almost nothing that McGovern holds as a political philosophy with which I would agree.
Same appears to be true with Zinn.
Journalists - all of them! - have their own agenda, and that's what they peddle for "true story". Exceptions may exist but are irrelevant (don't prove anything).
Anyway, when a serious fight is on, there is no place for these gas-bags among the warriors.
If my doctor says I have cancer and I will live a long and productive life if I loose no time in having it cut out. The long run, if I don't have the surgery I am going to long and painful death, I'm going to experiance the discomfort of having it it cut out.
Pacificsm is bad medicine.
Yet I think that George's political philosophy would have been ruinous for the United States had he been elected president.
He was defeated at the polls, which is as it should be.
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