Posted on 09/12/2002 6:46:15 AM PDT by Jeff Head
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Good evening. A long year has passed since enemies attacked our country. We've seen the images so many times, they are seared on our souls, and remembering the horror, reliving the anguish, re-imagining the terror is hard and painful.
For those who lost loved ones, it's been a year of sorrow, of empty places, of newborn children who will never know their fathers here on earth.
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When and if a time comes when the maddogs infest both sides of the aisle ... and in some cases they already do ... then we must stand, as those with whom Thomas Paine was associated with ... against the resulting tyranny.
Those men not only fought England, they fought the Torries amongst them as well.
For me, the 2nd amendment and abortion are two defining issue I cannot and will not compromise on. No more than our founders would compromise when the loyalist and King's forces moved on their firearms of the day.
To do so renders us physically, morally and spiritually defenseless IMHO.
FRegards.
loosely translated from the latin, means that in time of war the laws are silent and the guns speak.
Iraq is a stategic necessity in countering what will be this country's biggest challenge in the next quarter century...China. A friendly government installed by the U.S. that will allow U.S. military bases in its country will do much to end conflict in the Middle East, stop terrorism and provide a staging area for upcoming conflicts with China, whether such conflicts happen in N. Korea or Taiwan.
Of course we can't say that.
But why else would we aim a cannon at a gnat?
I would vote for neither and would set my self in a place best apt to influence and swing things the right way (ie. as I am in Idaho) ... and if there was no other recourse, would have to defer to the same option and course our founders took.
I try and make that clear and it is one of the foundational purposes for the series, DRAGON'S FURY
FRegards.
There are certain basic principles not up for compromise.
Faced with a choice to either join Islamic Fundamentalist or abject abortionists I would opt to join neither and make my own way.
In answer to your question regarding WW II, we did sell out 200+ million people to a tyrant as bad or worse than the one we defeated. I have been to Eastern Europe, ask them your question. Many of them remember.
I believe we did the wrong thing in allowing Russia at the end of the war to gfain ground as it did. That's where it went wrong my friend. Playing them off against the Nazi's was not wrong ... but giving over tens of millions to either was wrong ... and always will be.
The issue can be drawn, on certain issues, right down the line. And on liberty (free will), the 2nd amendment and abortion that is what I do and teach my kids the same. Our founders pointed this out and led the way on their own defense and firearms.
You are free to do as you please, but I will not vascilate on that point. Further discussion in that direction, pointed at trying to convince me of the reality or neccesity to do so is a pointless exercise.
Our country chose an evil ally against an evil foe. The relative virulence of their respective evils was self-serving propaganda written into the history subsequently. Full advantage was taken, as is always done, of the victor's prerogative to write the history.
It would very likely have been possible to have manipulated the Nazis and the Soviets into fighting one another to their mutual destruction. But that would not have served the purposes of various politicians, Roosevelt in particular.
We do not need Kofi's permission, we do not need a UN resolution, we do not need a UN colaition ... all we need is to be threatened and have a President willing to nullify that threat and a congress willing to fund it. IOW, all we need is our representatives to decide to do so.
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