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"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
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Seems that Mr. O’s most excellent oratory skills are not so much up to the challenge of containing his domestic enemies….
Can we Believe he will be any more sucessful with those even more implacable foreign enemies of our very existence?
Webb 1) doesn’t desire to be superman’s second, and 2) doesn’t want to taint his own future bid for the ring.
By then we’ll be pining for a sensitive guy with a gun.
Is anybody thinking that there aren’t a whole lot of Dems really interested in the position?
Hey! I think the world of expat, military retiree divorcé cohort (s). They are pretty cool guys.
And say what you want-it was still a great article. I still have a copy in my files.
Besides, if a guy who wrote “Just say no!” ( To women on ships) can make CAG-why can’t Webb be Vice President?
Except he is more useful as a Senator and even the Dems know that.
I’m an unreformable knuckle dragger who happens to endorse Webb’s views on women in combat. Had not seen the article before. Very well argued, but then I’m Scots-Irish so I’m easily swayed.
If Webb still holds similar views, I can understand his not wanting the V.P. spot.
Sec Def and a chance to reorganize the Academies sounds like something he might take.
There’s a good idea!
I like Webb’s books, but he is a shallow, unoriginal opportunist political whore. He has no internal principles of his own. He follows the polls and tells the feverish Dem hoardes exactly what they want to hear.
Come to think of it, he just might be Democratic Presidential material after all.
Ditto what Nav said. What finally tweaked my attitude about Webb was his response to the Boss a couple years back about how he and the Dems would ‘show him the way’. Presumptious Bast**d.
Navig8r, Re your comment # 7 above… Agree completely with your assessment of Webb…an opportunistic dim bulb indeed.
That said… do a re-read of your first paragraph after substituting McCain for Webb in the first sentence and GOP for the Dems in the last sentence… cuts painfully close … does it not? Best
Snake, the delta between McCain and Webb is important. McCain usually does what he thinks is right, even if it is unpopular (and I disagree with him fairly regularly, BTW). Webb, on the other hand, does what he thinks is popular, even if it isn’t right.