Anyway, a quote
Along with this degeneracy has come a tragic irresponsibility by people who simply refuse to realize that we are currently engaged in World War IIII tend to think we are in World War IV...World War III being the Cold War. But he does clearly articulate the predicament we are in when he says, "This war may last longer than both the other World Wars put together and has more potential to end with our destruction as a nation." He is dead on: we can not afford to lose WWIV.
Another quote that reiterates what I was trying to say last night.
Another sign of irresponsibility and degeneracy is the unbelievably cheap level of public discourse over political issues. It is inevitable that we will disagree over policies and laws. But it is not inevitable that this disagreement will take place at the cheap level of attributing sheer stupidity to a man who has flown jet planes that most of his critics seem unlikely to master.
He then answers critics who think "this is the most corrupt administration ever" with this great piece of verbal bantor:
Cabinet members who have sacrificed millions of dollars to serve their country are blithely accused of getting us into a war for the sake of money. The whole country is accused of going into Iraq for the sake of oil, when we pulled out of Kuwait when we could have had all of their oil more than a decade ago.
THese are important to remember because "in a war for survival, with the prospect of nuclear weapons ending up in terrorist hands" it is extremely short-sighted and immature to let petty politics, personality conflicts, and philosophical nuances "undermine the national unity needed for strong decisive actions that may become our only hope."
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