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Greyhawk Originally posted on the 2nd anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, this review of the discussion surrounding the war on terror seems worth revisiting at this time. Simple facts and quotes follow, without additional editorial comment.
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart?” *
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
September 5, 1972: Eight Palestinian “Black September” terrorists seized 11 Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany. In a bungled rescue attempt by West German authorities, nine of the hostages and five terrorists were killed.
March 2, 1973: U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo A. Noel and other diplomats were assassinated at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum by members of the Black September organization.
*“So long as there are men there will be wars.” *
– Albert Einstein
“Only the dead have seen the last of war”
– George Santayana
“It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
June 27, 1976: Members of the Baader-Meinhof Group and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized an Air France airliner and its 258 passengers. They forced the plane to land in Uganda,where on July 3 Israeli commandos successfully rescued the passengers.
*“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” *
–General Douglas MacArthur
“Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.”
–“Epitoma Rei Militaris” by Vegetius.
(Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.)
**November 4, 1979: **After President Carter agreed to admit the Shah of Iran into the U.S., Iranian radicals seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats hostage. Thirteen hostages were soon released, but the remaining 53 were held until their release on January 20, 1981.
“States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”
–George W. Bush on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea
“I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.”
– Jimmy Carter on George Bush’s use of the phrase “Axis of Evil”
"Continue reading "WHY?
Greyhawk Originally posted on the 2nd anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, this review of the discussion surrounding the war on terror seems worth revisiting at this time. Simple facts and quotes follow, without additional editorial comment.
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart?” *
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
September 5, 1972: Eight Palestinian “Black September” terrorists seized 11 Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany. In a bungled rescue attempt by West German authorities, nine of the hostages and five terrorists were killed.
March 2, 1973: U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo A. Noel and other diplomats were assassinated at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum by members of the Black September organization.
*“So long as there are men there will be wars.” *
– Albert Einstein
“Only the dead have seen the last of war”
– George Santayana
“It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
June 27, 1976: Members of the Baader-Meinhof Group and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized an Air France airliner and its 258 passengers. They forced the plane to land in Uganda,where on July 3 Israeli commandos successfully rescued the passengers.
*“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” *
–General Douglas MacArthur
“Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.”
–“Epitoma Rei Militaris” by Vegetius.
(Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.)
**November 4, 1979: **After President Carter agreed to admit the Shah of Iran into the U.S., Iranian radicals seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats hostage. Thirteen hostages were soon released, but the remaining 53 were held until their release on January 20, 1981.
“States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”
–George W. Bush on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea
“I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.”
– Jimmy Carter on George Bush’s use of the phrase “Axis of Evil”
"Continue reading "WHY?
