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| VICTORY |
| 2003-04-28 |
| We fought despite a shrill and rising whine, like a jet engine about to explode, warning us, begging us, threatening us, mocking us, shaming us not to fight. But we did fight. And that is the Victory I want to celebrate. Not as a swaggering, macho attitude about kicking ass and taking names. But rather the sublime, astonishing and humbling realization that everything the enemies of America could throw at us – failed. We have listened to their lies since Marx took pen to paper, yet the vast, strong, humane and decent center of this Silent America did not buy into the idea that we are a nation of murderers, and simpletons, and ‘sheeple.’ If we could withstand that assault on our integrity, on our values and our beliefs, coming out of the stains of dishonor we assumed to win the many proxy battles of the Cold War, then what will these America-haters be left with? That an action that prevented parents from watching their children being placed into industrial shredders should never have taken place because some clay pots went missing? Who is left to believe these people now, except they themselves? I never feared those losers, those cynics, those bitter, small, perpetually angry people. I only feared what they could do to the middle, to the center of the line, the people who get up and vote the way we will steer this ship of ours through the reefs and storms we sometimes face. They took their best shot. They took it at a time when their ammunition was piled as high as it will ever be in our lifetimes. They failed. They failed miserably. And in their failure they have shown what they are, and who they are, and what they really want. International A.N.S.W.E.R, an offshoot of the Workers World Party, recipient of North Korean financial largesse and the driving force behind these rallies, does not care a whit about the Iraqi people. Nor does it want peace. What it and many other sad little groups desperately want is the paralysis and destruction of the one force that stands in the way of their flawed and murderous ideals: The United States of America. They didn’t get it. Not this time. Not today. That's just a sample. If you haven't read Bill Whittle's stuff, hie thee to his page and read the whole thing. |
| Posted by:growler |
| #3 That was quite possibly one of the best-written, most moving articles I have ever read. I sent it to just about everyone I know. |
| Posted by: Targus 2003-04-28 20:27:28 |
| #2 Bill's great! Too bad the assholes cluttered up his comments so much that he had to turn them off. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-28 19:33:33 |
| #1 He definitely needs an EFL guy... |
| Posted by: someone 2003-04-28 16:56:20 |