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Milton J. Madison - An American Refugee Now Living in China, Where Liberty is Ascending

Federalism, Free Markets and the Liberty To Let One's Mind Wander. I Am Very Worried About the Fate of Liberty in the USA, Where Government is Taking people's Lives ____________________________________________________________________________________________ "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue." -Barry Goldwater-

Sunday, September 25, 2005

From The Institute For Public Affairs In Montreal.....

"What is our aim? Victory! Victory at all costs; victory however long and hard the road may be; victory in spite of all terror for without victory there is no survival."

~ Winston Churchill

I was surprised to see this article on this institute's web-site since I naturally assumed that it would be a left leaning policy think tank. However, it is very much different than that.
Amidst the coverage of the horrors of yet another terrorist attack, it was poignant to watch the British veterans of World War II celebrate and remember their victories in a ceremony in the middle of London yesterday marking the official end of World War II. Churchill's spirit in Churchill's soldiers.

Their dignity and defiance put into stark relief the hand-wringing attitude of many in the western media and political life as one continued to watch the press conferences and public pronouncements. Leaders, with rare exceptions, seemed dazed and bewildered. Journalists, in much too typical fashion, commented cloyingly on the need to find ways to deal with the "fringe fanatics" of the "Islamic street". Talking-head analysts still pathetically pontificated about finding the "root causes" for terror and how difficult it is to "ferret out the killers" since destroying them meant killing human beings not just machines. And herein lies the problem.
Their basic premise here, is that they think that Islamists are not to be considered humans, just weapons in a war and that we should seek to destroy them. Read the whole thing.

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