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Read this from Camille Paglia, and square it with her ardent support for Obama. I'm flummoxed.
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However, I would appeal to you and to all Americans to acknowledge that
the preservation of our liberties ultimately depends on the enormous
dedication and self-sacrifice of our military men and women. I am very
concerned about whether our professional class, buffed all shiny and
bright by the elite universities, will ever have the will or stamina to
defend this nation in a major crisis. As I've predicted for years,
we're heading down a path similar to that of the Roman empire -- with a
sophisticated, self-absorbed upper class enjoying a comfortable
lifestyle whose security is maintained by a career military
(increasingly foreign or mercenary as Rome declined). Soldiers must do
or die by the good judgment or shallow caprice of a nation's leaders,
who are the ones who bear all moral responsibility in this matter. - Camille Paglia
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Their training done, I shipped them all to France,
ReplyDeleteWhere most of those I’d loved too well got killed.
Rapture and pale Enchantment and Romance,
And many a sickly, slender lord who’d filled
My soul long since with lutanies of sin,
Went home, because they couldn’t stand the din.
But the kind, common ones that I despised
(Hardly a man of them I’d count as friend),
What stubborn-hearted virtues they disguised!
They stood and played the hero to the end,
Won gold and silver medals bright with bars,
And marched resplendent home with crowns and stars. ~Sassoon
square it with her ardent support for Obama
ReplyDeleteShe thinks Obama will save the troops from harm by bringing them home.
Home to round up conservatives for the Obama re-education camps.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick