>> Seems someone hasn't read the words of Patrick Henry: "Give me
>> liberty, or give me death!"
>> John Schilling <schillin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> This may surprise you, but not everybody who reads those words,
> actually agrees to them. And almost nobody who agrees with them in
> principle, actually puts them into practice.
Many people say them, mean every word, sand put it into practice when
feasible. Of course, they mean their liberty and other people's
deaths. E.g.
Well, I've long been an admirer of, if not a full-fledged
subscriber to,
what I call the "Ledeen Doctrine." I'm not sure my friend Michael
Ledeen
will thank me for ascribing author****p to him and he may have only
been
semi-serious when he crafted it, but here is the bedrock tenet of
the Ledeen
Doctrine in more or less his own words: "Every ten years or so,
the United
States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw
it against
the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTFhZGQ4Y2IyZmNlY2QyNDkwZTlkZjFkYjZiNWY0YzU=


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