Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
No, you couldn’t.
Other countries are allowed to play rough. Take Russia or Lebanon or even the Hamas/Hezbollah mess.
America must fight with flowers instead of bullets, and lots of lots of soft talk.
if USA acts like Pakistan did “OK, let’s negotiate. We demand total unconditional surrender OR we’ll storm the mosque and slaughter every single one of you, wackos”…
Oh, I can almost see the headlines.
No, America can’t do publicly what sometimes need to be done.
Cardoso, we’re doing it 24/7. The administration has chosen the course of not talking about it, which is probably best.
I sure hope we are doing it, with or without announcing it. It’s being announced to those who care (our enemies) either way.
I, for one, am glad he went away entirely. His death wish has been granted. Too bad his brother was a wimp and tried to cross-dress his way out.
Casca, There you go again…Re # 2 above… you said ” we’re doing it 24/7″… your all knowing certainty about something that is all but uknowable is breathtaking…I seriously doubt that ” we’re doing it 24/7″…but if we, on the oft chance are… I strongly suggest that you put a sock in it. Best