Archive for November 2009
I’m not naïve, and I know war is a low-down dirty business and not everything that takes place is going to be on the up-and-up. However, this situation taken as a whole is not acceptable by any measure.
Lou Dobbs said that important national issues “are now defined in the public arena by partisanship and ideology rather than by rigorous empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion.”
“The tragedy was that they were asked to fight and die for a cause that their country was unwilling to win.”
— Ronald Reagan
Few of our Presidents in recent years have been military men. This author makes a good argument that it may be time for a change in the concept of President as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces as granted by the U.S. Constitution.
It takes balls to ask tapped out Americans to pay for the political process so they can have their pockets picked by Government and Big Business one more time …
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
