william
2008-02-01 15:49:18
What force made Japanese give up the way of the Bushido and the Prussians give up their Heidelberg dueling scars? Military force and total defeat. We did not appeal to be better angels of their nature. I do not know what motivates the Taliban or Al Queada and their suicide bombers, but I do know that our sudden retreat will not cause them to disavow their despicable ideology. Joseph Kennedy, our ambassador to England during the blitz, saw in Churchill not the face of Western Democracy(which he was) but the face of British Imperialism(which, to some extent, he also was). Kennedy recommended detachment from the cause of the British. Those leftists who see only imperialism in our presence in these distant lands are as blind as Kennedy.
