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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (136888)6/17/2004 3:55:15 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Quisling? Maybe you should visit Norway and talk to any Norwegian about Quisling. After all, it was Vidkun Quisling, one of their own, who became the traitor used by the Nazis to subjugate that brave people. They would tell you what it is really like to live under a dictatorship and they would also tell you how thankful they are that the US and its allies took more than five years to return their country to them, freeing them from a tyranny almost as brutal as that of Sadaam Hussein.

And we have been in Iraq for a little over a year. Boy are you impatient.

Tell that to Hussein. You seem to have a truly reliable source of information re: the day to day political and military changes now undergoing rapid transformation as we approach the June 30th handover.

Lots of patriotic Norwegians were assassinated under the Quisling/Nazi occupation in Norway. Did this cause Norwegian patriots to cower and to flee in terror from their responsibilities to restore their country to freedom?

Waiting. . .waiting. . .waiting . . .Just as Germans waited after WWII. And the Japanese waited after Hirohito. And the Italians waited after Beneto Mussolini. And the East Germans waited after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And the Afghans are waiting after the Taliban, knowing that Karzai will lead them into their future of freedom and democracy. (Or is Karzai just another Quisling?)

Yes, and the Americans waited after the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Democracy takes time. Military victory also takes time. The enemies of both are desperate. They know the stakes. Iran knows the stakes. The last thing it wants is an Iraq on its borders whose citizenry is becoming educated in freedom and to freedom.

Tell John Kerry. But speak to him in both his ears as the one on the left rarely knows what the one on the right is hearing. And both of them are rarely in contact with his flippy-floppy mouth.
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