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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

In summary

One of the best summaries I have seen:


It is, of course, totally absurd for Rudy Giuliani to claim that he has "never heard" of any connection between America's ongoing interference in the Middle East and the 9/11 attacks. It is even more absurd to pretend that America's invasions of Lebanon and Iraq and our supplying Israel, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt with weaponry has not rendered us a legitimate target; when is the last time Arabs attacked Estonia or Chile? It's obviously unwise to attack the world's greatest military power, but it's perfectly legitimate by any of the historical standards of war.

A nation cannot occupy dozens of other nations without creating a great deal of justifiable hostility. Consider that the US government is now claiming that Iran has been committing acts of war against us by providing armaments to the Shiite and Sunni guerillas attacking our soldiers in Iraq, how then is it possible that our similar provision of armaments to various belligerents were not acts of war that justify a response from the other party involved?

It's absolutely disgusting that the Republican media - I will no longer say conservative - should cheer the blatant lying of this dishonest man because he tells them what they want to hear. It used to be that the sole virtue of Republicans was that they wanted to drive more slowly towards the cliff, now they are stepping on the gas harder than any Democrat. War-making is not conservative, those left-wingers in the Soviet Union weren't exactly shy about invading countries and sending their "military advisers" everywhere from Angola to Vietnam.

Empires and great nations don't fall from without, they rot from within. Al-Qaeda can never destroy America, in fact, losing Washington, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco to terrorism would make the nation stronger, not weaker. But men like Bill Clinton, George Bush and Rudy Giuliani can destroy America and they will if the American people continue to be more preoccupied with their fears of the terrorist-bogeyman than with the fate of the nation.


Vox Day

1 Comments:

Blogger Andy W. Rogers said...

Vox Day opines: "Al-Qaeda can never destroy America, in fact, losing Washington, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco to terrorism would make the nation stronger, not weaker."

That has to be one of the craziest things I've read in a while. Is V. Day really suggesting that Washington, New York, L.A. and San Francisco be wiped off the map???

Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:22:00 PM  

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