Well, the new motto is a reflection on the current belief system in play at the Hill. As you probably know the REAL Renaissance was anything but feudal!

Venthony: I dunno who I remind you of -- not my problem -- but I do not believe in peace at any price. If you read my many posts trying to understand the situation around 11-30 September 201, you will see that I insist over and over again that what we must do is focus on the intelligent use of the correct tools on correctly identified targets for valid purposes. That does not include going into international war without a well defined goal. It does not include relying on half-assed intell to commit millions of dollars and hundreds of American lives.

If that Hussein-hole is building nukes, we should take them out, and him as wlel if need be.

But I shun the role of eliminating other people's lives and I think every thinking human being should shun it , except in the case of clear and present threat and real danger. If you read what I have written here about Shrub, it is over and over that he should state the factys on which he believes he is operating plainly. I do not believe he is up to it, either in terms of courage or in terms of ethics.

You may be right about history, but I wouldn't bet on it. The future blessing ofhistory has been used to inspire true believers in every mad mass movement since the first crusade, and such invocations are more often wrong than right, and are semantically null.

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