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Re: Foolish short-sighted US foreign policy... 

By: monkeytrots in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (2)
Sat, 23 Jul 11 3:45 AM | 33 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 13987 of 21975
(This msg. is a reply to 13983 by DueDillinger)
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Due - when we start SOUNDING exactly like the left in our admissions - we err egregiously.

Example: "We did indeed teach jihaad ...."

Connotation and Denotation. Technically a correct statement, but the connotation is ENTIRELY untrue.
Poor choice of words - because of so much that it implies and that which it leaves out.

THEY ALREADY KNEW VIOLENT JIHAAD - the statement "We did indeed teach jihaad" implicitly (damn near explicitly) states, ex post facto, that that "They did not know about jihadd until we 'taught' jihaad to them."

Do you NOT see the problem with statements such as that ?

We took their own teaching of jihaad and attempted to use that concept for our own purposes.

Both statements are ACCURATE portrayals of history. The second is FAR closer to actual 'truth'.

Words matter.




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Foolish short-sighted US foreign policy...
By: DueDillinger in CONSTITUTION
Fri, 22 Jul 11 3:33 PM 		Msg. 13983 of 21975

A simple statement of historical fact that you cannot deny. We did indeed teach jihad and played a significant role in the creation of a generation of what Reagan short-sightedly called 'freedom fighters' in the mideast.

You can't counter the leftist meme by ignoring it. The truth must be told and errors acknowledged or they will recur again and again.

Yeah. We did that. What idiots we were. Can't make that mistake again.

You and I essentially agree except when you get fixated on a narrow interpretation. History is filled with American foreign policy foolishness that backfired. If we don't admit this we're doomed to keep blundering.

I even agree that RP is unelectable and hope/pray that Sarah runs. RINO Romney said yesterday that he thinks the Republican nomination race will come down to himself and an “unelectable hard right counterweight.” He's referring to Bachmann or Paul, and he's probably correct. Romney's better than Obama, but not by very much.

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