Monday, June 8, 2009

Reagan and the anti-Reagan

I'll let you decide who said which:

"The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge--and pray God we have not lost it--that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt. . . . . I tell you from my heart that we in the United States do not want war. We want to wipe from the face of the Earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands. And I tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead. We look for some sign from the Soviet Union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love for peace, and that they will give up the ways of conquest. There must be a changing there that will allow us to turn our hope into action."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26866

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"We, live, in a world, of competing, beliefs - and claims, about, what is, true. It’s a world, of varied religions, and cultures, and forms, of government . . . . The, nations,,,, th,at joined, together to defeat, Hitler’s, reich, were not, perfect. They, made their share, of mistakes,,,, had , not always agreed, with one another, on every issue. But whatever God we prayed to . . . we knew, that the evil,, we, faced, had: to; be stopped.” http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32181


You know , one of our presidents demanded that the Soviets give up the ways of conquest. Will the other make a similar demand of Islam? Or do they have merely “competing beliefs and claims about what is true”?

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