Post #46,246
7/20/02 9:04:02 PM
7/20/02 9:12:27 PM
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Re: Will Rogers reborn - homespun hash
[link|http://www.willrogers.org/|Who was Will Rogers]
Will Rogers was famous for his simple homespun humour & philosophy - he came from a very humble background but became a national phenomenon.
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The choice, then, is ours. We can chronically trim, dig, and cut back \ufffd preventing the terrorists from sprouting, seeding out, and spreading. Or, as with embracing the costly but systematic Roundup, we can decide now to blow apart its very roots, which are intertwined and so deeply entrenched in the very soil of the Middle East. Our efforts need not be solely military, but may be political and idealistic as well: working for democratic reform in the Gulf; explaining to the Syrians, Libyans, and Iranians that we consider them all captive peoples, who, like Eastern Europeans, suffer under the yoke of tyrannies and thus are deserving of our support for democratic revolution. We should seek out more liberal members of the Saudi royal family and explain to them that democratic reform alone can now prevent the collapse of their entire regime.
The latter systematic choice in the short-term \ufffd the ending of Saddam Hussein; ultimatums to Syria and Iran to cease their succor to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, or else; a reckoning with the terrorist enclaves in Lebanon; a gradual dissolution of alliances with the autocracies of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan; subsidies to democratic reformers throughout the Middle East \ufffd is both unorthodox, frightening, and easily caricatured. But, in the long term, it offers the only hope of destroying weeds like al Qaeda for good. Anything less and we are simply pruning back a perennial pest.
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Seems to me this philosopher has spent so much time on the farm studying weeds he has failed to study why the terrorist situation really came (comes) about. All that oil he tried to kill those weeds with has more to do with terrorism & hostility to us in the west.
Again, seems to me the parable he tells would be better described as if the johnsongrass was being seeded by agents from the state & federal govt covertly carrying out govt policies of which mere mortals can't fully understand. To get rid of the weed requires that the govt change its policies but it is a catch-22 because the govt is actually carrying out unpalatable polices behind the scenes to protect the comfy life on the farm that is so much taken for granted.
Overall this homespun philosophy appears to show country bumpkin style pig-ignorance of realpolitik.
Cheers
Doug Marker
#1 - realign text to make cut & paste more readable #2 fix typos
Edited by dmarker2
July 20, 2002, 09:08:37 PM EDT
Re: Will Rogers reborn - homespun hash
Who was Will Rogers
Excerpts
The choice, then, is ours. We can chronically trim, dig, and cut back preventing the terrorists from sprouting,
seeding out, and spreading. Or, as with embracing the costly but systematic Roundup, we can decide now to blow
apart its very roots, which are intertwined and so deeply entrenched in the very soil of the Middle East. Our efforts
need not be solely military, but may be political and idealistic as well: working for democratic reform in the Gulf;
explaining to the Syrians, Libyans, and Iranians that we consider them all captive peoples, who, like Eastern
Europeans, suffer under the yoke of tyrannies and thus are deserving of our support for democratic revolution. We
should seek out more liberal members of the Saudi royal family and explain to them that democratic reform alone
can now prevent the collapse of their entire regime.
The latter systematic choice in the short-term the ending of Saddam Hussein; ultimatums to Syria and Iran to
cease their succor to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, or else; a reckoning with the terrorist enclaves in
Lebanon; a gradual dissolution of alliances with the autocracies of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan; subsidies to
democratic reformers throughout the Middle East is both unorthodox, frightening, and easily caricatured. But, in
the long term, it offers the only hope of destroying weeds like al Qaeda for good. Anything less and we are simply
pruning back a perennial pest.
*****************
Seems to me this philosopher has spent so much time on the farm studying weeds he has failed to study why the terrorist situation really came (comes) about. All that oil he tried to kill those weeds with has more to do with terrorism & hostility to us in the west.
Again, seems to me the parable he tells would be better described as if the johnsongrass was being seeded by agents from the state & federal govt covertly carrying out govt policies of which mere mortals can't fully understand. To get rid of the weed requires that the govt change its policies but it is a catch-22 because the govt is actually carrying out unpalitable polices behind the scenes to protect the comfy life on the farm that is so much taken for granted.
Overall this homespun philosophy appears to show country bumpkin style pig-ignorance of realpolitik.
Cheers
Doug Marker
Edited by dmarker2
July 20, 2002, 09:12:27 PM EDT
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Post #46,382
7/22/02 12:24:43 PM
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Yep, it's the black helicopters behind all this.
Everything bad everybody does is America's fault somehow.
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Everything's a mystery until you figure out how it works. Free Joel Mowbray! I'm a-gonna put a gun rack on my SUV.
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Post #46,395
7/22/02 1:50:43 PM
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Not quite right...
No, is more like: Everything bad America does is America's fault somehow.
And the Law of Karma (by whatever name, the only universal tenet of all religions) applies even to us.
jb4 "I remember Harry S. Truman's sign on his desk. 'The buck stops here.' Strange how those words, while still true, mean something completely different today." -- Brandioch
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Post #46,402
7/22/02 3:16:23 PM
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Generalized Homilies 101-remedial
In the final analysis everything depends on everything else Ashleigh Brilliant
A stitch, in time saves nine.
Goodness is nicer than badness.
We know how cruel truth often is; we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Poincar\ufffd
Never express yourself more clearly than you think. -- Neils Bohr (1885-1962) via Alex
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Post #46,491
7/23/02 9:52:12 AM
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One more...
"Nothing ever seems to go right in this crazy world".
Arthur Bremer
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
"You better get yourself together darling, join the human race." J. Lennon
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Post #46,607
7/23/02 6:48:25 PM
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(Maybe by design: are we Something's__ -amusement-__??)
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Post #46,608
7/23/02 7:02:26 PM
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Know who Bremer was?
It's an obscure quote taken by me from Akroyd in Neighbors... My sad attempt at humour.
Just a few thoughts,
Screamer
As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
J. Lennon - Working Class Hero
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Post #46,665
7/24/02 4:37:37 AM
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Nope..
only vague sense of YAN assassin or wannabe? - only there are now so many. For me, the utter banality of the John Lennon killing prolly caused me to pay the least possible attention to most following. To remember the name is to grant the Fame.
Neither karma nor logic seems to apply - leaving ~ random. Like Brownian movements or the offing or election of Popes?
A.
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