Thoughtful response to Peggy Noonan's "What Bush Should Do" commentary
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Passing On Liberty
Steve Madison - Duncanville, Texas
"I couldn't sleep last night and was watching Charlie Rose's conversation with a young man who has written a book on the profound political dissonance we have in our country. While being careful to say that he disagreed with their decision, he pretended to be sympathetic to the plight of the poor witless people who he says have been seduced and betrayed by conservative Republicans. He thinks we need to be saved from ourselves by the Democrats.
In a surprising turn, Mr. Rose asked his guest if the trouble wasn't the founding of this country on the capitalist model--and shouldn't we move to some form of communist system. The guest said "yes," that that would be the preferred model but that the mass of people in America needed to be educated to see things differently--if that change were ever to succeed. And then I had my great epiphany: To the enduring and often deadly struggle between the communists and the capitalists has been added the sadistic free radical of terrorist Islam and suddenly we're fighting two wars on many fronts--both for the very survival of America's liberty.
If I am happy with the war and President Bush these days, it is not because of the death and destruction that the conflict brings, but because this sacrifice is tangible evidence that America hasn't been "educated" enough (yet) to value life more than liberty. I believe that President Bush sees this as well and that together, we can hold on to liberty long enough to pass it to the next generation of Americans--sorta like those seductive capitalist warmongers Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and especially that arrogant and stupid George Washington with his blood thirsty band of babykiller Continentals."
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