Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother |
| From | Russ |
| Date | 2002-05-14 00:37 (2002-05-14 00:37) |
| Message-ID | <20020513183718.04364.00003493@mb-fi.aol.com> |
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| Follows | Morgil Blackhope |
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In article <abpdrg$k2fq4$1@ID-81911.news.dfncis.de>, "Morgil Blackhope" <morestelx@hotmail.com>writes:
Nope. Humiliation would have been if we curled up in fear and retired from the scene. That we did not do. Vietnam...now *that* was a humiliation. 9/11, not at all.What is sad, and oh so instructive about you, is that you consider 9/11 a humiliation. It was in fact, the opposite. The bravery and heroism ofMorgil Blackhope
thatday is unparalleled. It was, as Churchill once said, our finest hour.USA is without competition the greatest military might in the world. Yet it was unable to prevent a destructive strike against the very core of its miltary and economic power. Of course it was a humiliation, and saying it was doesn't mean diminishing the bravery of those ordinary people who acted heroically in crise situation. That is a different issue altogether.
Would you feel better if I said it was a humiliation to military and intelligence machinery, but a brave moment for the People of USA?How could it be a humiliation for the military? The military could not stop places from being hijacked and rammed into buildings. We don't keep air patrols over our cities 24/7. As to an intelligence humiliation? Perhaps. Although, it's hard to fault the intelligence services too much. We never hear too much about their successes; in fact we probably don't hear about many of them at all. But there are most definitely a lot of successes.
Russ
2002-03-30-
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