Saturday, December 20, 2003
First published From Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14: US Army War College. "The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing."
Margot B 2:25 AM
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Margot B 2:21 PM
In 1961, at the end of his second term, in his farewell speech to his countrymen, President Eisenhower gave this advice:
".we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought of unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight Eisenhower
Karl Rove, "Bush's Brain," a Democratic political consultant is quoted as saying about the Bush Cartel: "They just picked a war they could win....It has to be the most evil political calculation in American history."
Margot B 12:32 PM
Monday, December 15, 2003
Karl Rove, "Bush's Brain," a Democratic political consultant is quoted as saying about the Bush Cartel: "They just picked a war they could win....It has to be the most evil political calculation in American history."
Margot B 8:41 AM
Sunday, December 14, 2003
"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." : Socrates 469 - 399 BC
Margot B 10:54 AM
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