[lit-ideas] Re: National Symbols
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 00:04:16 -0500
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/2/2006 11:47:00 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: National Symbols
>
> We are become the monsters we fear.
>
> If we lose the war on terror it will be because
> our enemies know what they will die for while we
> will be whimpering in corners and hoping
> that Big Brother will save our cowardly asses.
>
> Where are courage, honor, compassion?
>
> ____
>
> Certainly not in your words. Your words above are
> laden with cultural self-loathing and timidity.
>
> Demonstrate how sitting on one's hands and waiting
> for the next (and larger) Islamist strike embodies
> courage, honor, or compassion. Rather they are
> words of cowardice, accommodation, and exceptionalism.
>
Nobody's advocating sitting on one's hands, just not squandering money and
resources. Do you feel safer since we invaded Iraq?
> Again I ask you: what would FDR do?
>
Iraq didn't attack us. I don't see where FDR fits in. Republicans don't
like him anyway.
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