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To: JohnM who wrote (2968)7/1/2003 7:11:32 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (2) of 793911
 
You don't care about the issues of affirmative action, gay rights, prescription drugs, etc.

It isn't that I don't care..it is that I believe we have more important issues to fight for and about.

The demos continue to make much noise...but the only fights they want to really engage in right now are for low ground. Winning the battles of sodomy and reverse discrimination may be something for them to gloat over, but I see no significant value to preserving our way of life from either. Both are intended as changes. America has done pretty well without them.

I believe the demos choose these fights because they believe one should only fight battles you can win.
Well congrats you won one...or make it two.

So what would you have us do now...insist that teachers teach our kids that sodomy is OK because the Supremes and your local demos made it legal. Is your university going to show sodomy movies in sex education classes? Are the kids in your neighborhood sodomizing each other yet?

That is the talk around here. First the demos gave us public blowjobs (At least that is not sex, right?)...now they gave us sodomy...What will the democratic party give us next... S&M? Me and my kids and grandkids can hardly wait. The talk around our kitchen table has been about musical instrumemnts, birds and fishing so far this summer...We needed sodomy to liven things up.

If these are the important battles the demos want to fight and win, good luck at the polls.

dragged by an ideological vision, not a practical, how do you stop terror vision. And we are going to be stuck with this one for a very long time. Not good at all.

I agree...and all of our military leaders agree with you on that last point. The projection is that this war is going to last 20 or more years and more importantly >>>the outcome is still in doubt<<<. But John, we did not start it. It came to us, remember...and our history is to conduct our military battles overseas whenever possible.

I have real bad news for you. This war is not just about Afghani and Iraq...We have American soldiers at war against terror in the Phillippines and Columbia too...Those two conflicts are building as I type. Lesser, yet equally significant war activity continues in Africa and Southeast Asia and it too will need to be expanded. N Korea, Iraq and Syria are also out there to be dealt with.
John, if you think you have a bitch now...hold onto your hat because this war hasn't started good.

Two weeks ago, I heard 3-star General Brown speak At Carlisle. He sees this as a WW. This war is still accelerating, and there is no end in sight.
Someone likes Brown's views.
a few days ago Brown was nominated for appointment to the grade of 4-star general with assignment
as commander, US Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.

We all know you are opposed to the war in Iraq. So be it. You have made the point and I accept that...but at least recognize that you have a minority view...You might want to take a good look at that...and not brush the rest of us off like lint. We may not be as foolish as you think.

In WWII we attacked across North Africa, Greece, Italy and most of Western Europe because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Was that mistake too? We are in a similar situation today. The problem has grown way beyond the single entity of Osama bin late.

Most see that clearly...some don't. The clearest vision and the best writers are those who have detailed knowledge of both sides. "Study your enemy" may be advice you need to hear.

Arguing a fixed point from a single point of view is a lost cause if you are a minority viewpoint. That is true even if you win the argument. The demo's hot topics of cancelling tax reductions, sodomy rights, and reverse discrimination are battles you may win...but holding low ground makes you extremely vulnerable to counterattack. Expect that...and realize some of the counter-attackers may be demos.
unclewest
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