Victor Davis Hanson wrote in his Memorial Day essay, "After Iraq, the reputation of bin Laden and radical Islam has not been enhanced as alleged, but has plummeted. For all the propaganda on al Jazeera, the chattering classes in the Arab coffeehouses still watch Americans fighting to give Arabs the vote, and radical Islamists in turn beheading men and women to stop it."
I don't think there is a much stronger image for this Memorial Day. Americans fighting for freedom is this country's founding principle.
Posted by hoffmang | May 28, 2006 02:15 PM
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fighting for oil Gene. Stop watching and reading the news according to the Republicans and do some fact finding.
Posted by: scott on June 15, 2006 4:43 AM
Scott,
Your perspective from Britain may mean you're a bit tone deaf to American sensibilities, but its a funny stretch to accuse me of being a Republican or of this being a war for oil. If it were, we'd be taking the oil and the price wouldn't be around $70 a barrel.
This is a war for modernity. We're in many ways undoing poor British foreign policy in the first half of the last century.
