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Once More, Neocons, Into The Breach!
« on: December 25, 2022, 07:25:12 am »
Once More, Neocons, Into The Breach!

Of course. Of course! “Unpatriotic Conservatives!” as David Frum said of the anti-Iraq War right in 2003. These people are shameless. I’m old enough to remember when Kristol predicted that the coming Iraq War would be “a two-month war”: My friend David Brooks — whose friendship I always state because I am loyal to my […]

Rod_Dreher
Dec 23, 2022
7:44 AM
Of course. Of course!


"Unpatriotic Conservatives!" as David Frum said of the anti-Iraq War right in 2003. These people are shameless. I'm old enough to remember when Kristol predicted that the coming Iraq War would be "a two-month war":


My friend David Brooks -- whose friendship I always state because I am loyal to my friends, even when I disagree with them -- writes of the Zelensky speech in today's Times:

Sure, there were dissenters in the room, but they were not what mattered. Words surged into my consciousness that I haven’t considered for a while — compatriots, comrades, co-believers in a common creed.

Zelensky and his fellow Ukrainians have reminded Americans of the values and causes we used to admire in ourselves — the ardent hunger for freedom, the deep-rooted respect for equality and human dignity, the willingness to fight against brutal authoritarians who would crush the human face under the heel of their muddy boots. It is as if Ukraine and Zelensky have rekindled a forgotten song, and suddenly everybody has remembered how to sing

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/once-more-neocons-into-the-breach/
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address