 masbury says: From "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits keep spinning us to death" The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. Georges Clemenceau French politician (1841 - 1929) War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by t... But H, don't your quotes avoid the real debate? Few who advocate withdrawal from Iraq would disagree with your comments. And fewer still would think "nothing is worth war." So it's a straw man knocked down, and a page from the Bush/Rove play book: If you're for withdrawal, you're for defeat, you're probably not patriotic." Not only is that a non sequitur, it is also a far too convenient way to dodge discussing the merits of the current situation - a tactic well-known to Johnson and Nixon. Change the debate to "who's a better patriot" and the wisdom of Iraq policy itself never gets examined. It's a miserable creature who sends you off to war based on lies. And how many of those who quoted. Ever really fought in a war? Its easy to play with your soldiers. Much harder to be one. "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." - Winston Churchill Its easy to play with your soldiers.So true. |
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