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Bona fide great piece. The unvarnished, as a commenter there said. Hanson calls the US military the “moral upper crust of American society” and I second the notion. You won’t hear such a sentiment expressed very often–it’s too bold–but the truth of it is plainly obvious to many, many of us.

This Canadian agrees with you Buddy. I am in awe of the courage- moral and physical -of the American soldier.

Risking their lives to liberate and pacify another country is highest form of altruism.

What I don’t understand is why those who attack the American soldier – the Kerrys, the Murthas, the DailyKOS and MoveOn – seem to get a pass. If only more ex-soldiers would speak out or take action in the manner of John O’Neil these traitors -and they are traitors -would be marginalized.

I dunno, Terry –it’s beyond me, too. There’s just so much outrage a person can get outraged over, before it starts seeming “normal”. It seems there was plenty of this in other wars, too–that WWII was an exception. BTW, I’m with you on John O’Neil –he’s a good ‘un.

“I am in awe of the courage – moral and physical – of the American soldier.”

“If it wasn’t for the American military Europe would exist” – David Horowitz, from today on ‘In Depth’ for 3 hours on C-SPAN.

I think they repeat those. I recommend looking it up and watching at least some of it.

Horowitz is exibit A in the case for an American unexpected persolitical evolution.

Sorry – the Horowitz quote went something like this.

“If it wasn’t for the American military Europe would NOT exist”

I’m currently under the influence of an early Red Sox victory celebration.

Talking to my brother in Fla. about the Boston victory today, he pointed out that the Yankees have been under the same (loosing the big one) management for the past seven years. You see, even when we are not playing against the Yanks directly, they are in the back of our minds because we believe that if we beat the Yanks we can beat anybody.

In Iraq, anybody (insurgency/foreign fighters/al Qaida) that has gone up against our military has lost BIG TIME.

Our enemies have fallen short since 9/11, and the more we command the battle the more we can show that taking up arms against us (even unconventionally) is a loosing cause.

A key ingredient in this battle is patience.

Is it possible that our enemies in Iraq are not the most patient lot you will ever come across and coupled with heavy loses that’s why you see them joining up with us? Or is it possible that our enemies can be more patient than our democrat leaders in our own country?

The answer to those questions weight heavily on the troops at the front. We cannot afford to answer incorrectly.

sorry o/t baseball, but, Mantle, Maris, Whitey Ford, others, all in a baseball flick from 1962, on TCM, right now, just starting.

I would (qualified) vote for Hillary if I was conviced she belived the fight against our enemies to be greater than her own political fight.

They (dems) are a smart bunch.

I haven’t heard anything from Hillary but platitudes. She is lucky she has not been pined down to anything resembling “Bush lied people died” So far she is running against a political Big Bird.

Her own party is her biggest threat.

The election so far is HERS to loose.

We need to kneel on Hillary. Pronto!

“Mantle, Maris, Whitey Ford….”

We had Ted Williams. The greatest sports legend that ever lived. (short of our own Babe Ruth before he went for the money)

Williams was so unavailable his own siblings tried to use his DNA against societal odds.

On a related note this piece of horse anatomy has a couple too many twists in his pretzel for me to understand his objection to the Limbaugh fundraising ad. Whether Rush was talking about real phony warriors, or just people who disagree with him, seems like a plain empirical matter. (There may not be enough evidence to know, but it’s still an empirical question.) The fundraising letter is mostly about the fairness doctrine, which is a philosophical matter, if it’s anything. Rush may be tying the two issues together for political purposes, but that’s not like finding a sasquatch in your back yard.

The idea that either party would eschew such a tactic out of some higher moral sense seems just a a little sasquatchlike, on the other hand. Not that I have anything against sasquatches… I just don’t know how to carry on a conversation one.

“I just don’t know how to carry on a conversation one.”

…well, that’s a start.