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.
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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.”
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“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.
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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 …
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
— Patrick Henry
“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
— James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
— Edward Abbey