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To America’s Generals Tuesday, May 22 2007
Politics 09:30
Rather scathing Op/ed of a retired USMC four-star general. I agree. Get off your ass and do something other than bellaching about how your belly would ache at the end of it all.
TODAY’S COLUMNIST
By Daniel L. Davis
May 22, 2007
According to recently published reports, the Bush administration quietly approached several retired four-star generals last March about accepting a newly created position to coordinate military and political/diplomatic activity in Iraq. None accepted. One of those who refused was highly decorated retired Marine Corps Gen. John J. Sheehan, who was quoted in The Washington Post as saying, “So rather than go over there, develop an ulcer and eventually leave, I said, ‘No, thanks.’ ” How unreasonable indeed it was of the president of the United States to ask a retired Marine Corps four-star general — during a time of war — to do something hard, particularly at the risk of an upset tummy.
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More Anti-Amnesty Tuesday, May 22 2007
Politics 09:05
Here’s a good point at Human Events by Nathanael Blake:
Pro-amnesty Hysteria
Well that didn’t take long. A liberal Washington Post columnist implicitly compared opponents of amnesty to Nazis today, while misrepresenting their position. Eugene Robinson writes that:
any serious attempt to drive them out of the country — even “temporarily,” so they could apply to be let back in — would be indistinguishable from a pogrom.
Would SWAT teams of immigration officers descend on neighborhoods and go door to door? Would they snatch children out of schools? Where would they take these people? To special camps? To the nearest border?
Pogroms were not the exclusive domain of the National Socialists, but that’s what comes to mind first. And even if he meant, say, pogroms in Czarist Russia, would it have been any more accurate? Those of us who oppose amnesty aren’t suggesting that we send SWAT teams into schools to round up illegals. Rather, we want the border guarded and immigration law enforced. We want a crackdown on businesses that hire illegal immigrants. We want illegals who are arrested for other crimes to be deported.
Secure the borders.
Enforce our laws.
Make English our official language.
Stop diluting the American culture.
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