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By: SEATTLE JOHN

SEATTLE JOHN — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:55:50 +0000

THE EPIC: IT’S NOT A WORLD WAR

IT’S NOT A WORLD WAR, UNLESS AS BEFORE,
BRITAIN’S TREMBLING HAND KNOCKS ON THE DOOR,
OR
GERMAN JACKBOOTS SHAKE THE FLOOR,
UNTIL THAT HAPPENS, IT’S NOT A WORLD WAR.
IT’S NOT A WORLD WAR, TRUTH AND LOGIC IMPLORE,
UNLESS THE JAPANESE NAVY SETS SAIL FROM THE SHORE,
OR
FRENCH POLITICIANS SCREAM FOR ‘NO MORE,’
OR
THE RUSSIAN WINTER BECOMES LEGEND’S LORE,
BUT IF NON OF THE ABOVE, I’LL PARAPHRASE THE OLD SAW,
IF THAT DOG DON’T HUNT, IT AIN’T A WORLD WAR.
IT’S NOT HEAVEN’S ROAR, BUT AN ABRASION D’JOUR,
IT’S A BOSNIA, CHETSNIA, PERHAPS A DARFUR,
UNLESS MILLIONS DIE WHILE OTHERS JAW,
OR
TALL BUILDINGS AND CATHEDRALS IN SMOKE AND FIRE FALL,
OR
MASSES UPON MASSES FEED A GENOCIDAL MAW,
IT’S NADA, NADA, NADA WORLD WAR,
JUST ASK FRANKLIN, OR WINSTON, OR ELEANOR.

By: Dave Begley - Omaha

Dave Begley - Omaha — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:28:59 +0000

VDH is one of my favorite writers because of his insight and clear style.

I just love that idea of “The American Street.” Somewhat similar to the “Silent Majority.” It exists and it is fed up with all this crap.

Link is to my humble effort in the Omaha World-Herald on 9-10-06. I cite VDH from “A War Like No Other” (great book!) and Chris Buckley’s “Florence of Arabia” (also great and funny).”

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=609&u_sid=2239038

By: L Nettles

L Nettles — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:07:53 +0000

I’ve wished for some time for a RSS feed for your website, now I have my wish.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:02:13 +0000

I loved your article. It is refreshing in that your commentary goes beyond the usual partison bashing.

You are somewhat more optomistic than I am.

I would love to see the American Street wake up. However, we are fat and soft.

Meanwhile, with our open borders, the Jihadists don’t even need a Trojan Horse. They keep coming, and coming, and are probably already in position awaiting orders. While we are in total self apology, whining because they “just don’t understand what ‘good people’ we are”, they’ll attack.

We’ll all be watching American Idol, and by the time we even get to the window to see what happened, it will be all over.

I only wish Pelosi and company were authentic in their condemnation of Chavez’s antics, but it’s all posturing.

Our leaders are all for sale.

By: Improbulus Maximus

Improbulus Maximus — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:36:48 +0000

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about pre-Rennaisance Europe, meaning the years of the Black Death, during which it seemed that the grace of Heaven was withdrawn from mankind, and the gates of Hell flung wide; when fear and the stench of death hung heavy across the land, and the end of the world seemed near. Now there is a new plague raging across the globe, and many would have us accept our doom, but I am looking forward to the Second Renaissance; I only wonder if a third or the world’s population must die to bring it about?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:20:24 +0000

Sir,
A truly refreshing and eye opening site. As a Soldier with two tours in Iraq my comrades and I often feel frustration in the conduct of the war. It is not that we do not support what we are doing but simply feel that we are prevented from doing what is necessary for victory. I am not advocating wholesale slaughter of individuals but it is critical that we be allowed to demonstrate aggression to those that oppose us. You cannot effectively defeat an enemy without destroying the will of the enemy to fight, the means of the enemy to make war and the populations desire to support war. Unfortunately in Iraq we terminated our “major combat operations” too early. Our enemy was declared beaten but they (and the population) apparently never got the memo and we never really showed them our destructive capabilities. I am thoroughly convinced that for us to defeat these terrorists we, as a nation, must embrace total war on the countries that harbor and enable these murderous networks and unleash our unrestrained fury upon them. I believe we can avoid the use of nuclear weapons and achieve the terrorists defeat purely through conventional means if we have the intestinal fortitude to do what is required. Just my 2 cents.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:25:05 +0000

“The world should not worry when the half-educated, fueled by zealotry and nursed on conspiracy theory, starts chanting…”

A pretty good description of the American Street, you ask me.

By: bbatson

bbatson — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:45:14 +0000

What a great piece. I’ve lived in Eastern Europe for the past five years and let me tell you, the people are blind to the threat that is upon them. Many joke that the people of Eastern Europe care more about the price of milk than anything else.

I understand the lifestyle they want to live — peaceful, beer drinking, picking mushrooms, weekends at the cottage. But they are living in a fantasyland if they think the threat of radical Islam isn’t on the way to their backyard.

But one thing I saw gave me hope. When the U.S. decided to remove Saddam from power, there were a few protests here (Prague). Of course they were organized by the typical self-hating Americans, addicted to victimhood and incapable of real debate. The funny thing is, very few Europeans even joined in the marches. Most said that while they aren’t for the war, they aren’t pacifists either. So it was just a couple hundred Americans, screaming and shouting and holding anti-Bush signs, while the Europeans stood by and shopped and went about their business!

By: patrick neid

patrick neid — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:11:59 +0000

Curt M,

well said……..when i borrow it, i will always let them know where and from whom i took it.

By: ROA

ROA — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:02:21 +0000

I think what is most likely to happen is that Europeans will dig out their old “Better Red than Dead” signs and update them to “Better Dhimmi than Dead”