A Nail In His Place

Letter to the editor, Durham Herald, Chapel Hill Herald:

I love my daily dose of letters. Humorous and horrific at once; never failing to instruct and sometimes shock. I’ve learned many things about the alternate universe of the far-left mind. In that fantasy dwelling kettles are always black, but never pots. Books have many covers; but their contents are all the same. Mirrors reflect only fantasy if they reflect at all. Wealth and happiness are created by the state. Oppressive regimes are paradise if they give away an occasional Health-Care brand biscuit or a Free-Med chew toy. Terrorism is excused or softened with a name change. History is politics. Art is agitprop. The protester of the outrage du jour is revered while the soldier is reviled. Taxes are love and truth is fashion.

Here’s hoping for a little less left in 2006.

DUDE, WHERE’S MY CIVIL WAR?
March 5, 2006 — BAGHDAD
Ralph Peters

I’m trying. I’ve been trying all week. The other day, I drove another 30 miles or so on the streets and alleys of Baghdad. I’m looking for the civil war that The New York Times declared. And I just can’t find it.

Maybe actually being on the ground in Iraq prevents me from seeing it. Perhaps the view’s clearer from Manhattan. It could be that my background as an intelligence officer didn’t give me the right skills.

And riding around with the U.S. Army, looking at things first-hand, is certainly a technique to which The New York Times wouldn’t stoop in such an hour of crisis.

Let me tell you what I saw anyway. Rolling with the “instant Infantry” gunners of the 1st Platoon of Bravo Battery, 4-320 Field Artillery, I saw children and teenagers in a Shia slum jumping up and down and cheering our troops as they drove by. Cheering our troops.

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Churchill on Islamic Fundamentalism
Winston Churchill’s grandson says radical Islam at war with the world
By CJ Staff
March 03, 2006

RALEIGH — Winston S. Churchill III maintains that Islamic fundamentalism is as destructive as the malevolent “isms” of the 20th century: Nazism, Communism and Facism. In a speech on Feb. 10 at the John Locke Foundation’s anniversary dinner, the grandson of Winston Churchill urged the West to stay the course in the fight against extremist Islam.

Here is the text of his speech:

It is both an honor and a pleasure to be your guest here tonight and to have the privilege of addressing the John Locke Foundation. First and foremost, may I congratulate you for honouring the memory of John Locke, who was very much involved in the establishment of the Governments of the Carolinas and who, most important of all, was one of the great philosophers of the English-speaking world.

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We’re Losing
By Ben Stein
Published 2/23/2006

Greeting, fellow Americans. I have some serious news for you about the war against the terrorists, the war we are fighting to protect our liberties and our Constitution against Islamic totalitarianism. We’re losing, big time. I don’t mean we’re losing in Iraq, where our brave men and women are fighting well in difficult conditions and with the home grown doubters at their heels. Nor in Afghanistan, where our men and women in uniform are also fighting brilliantly.

No, we are losing our freedom here at home…

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