From: Ascmjk@aol.com
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 22:11:29 GMT
Right on, Platt.
Iraqi Freedom represented something far bigger and more profound than just
Saddam or WMD, just as the American Revolution represented something much more
than just some united colonies rebelling against Great Britain. The
intellectual *concepts* of freedom and tyranny were at war in both cases. It is a victory
both in the intellectual and social Quality sense.
The concept of freedom, the IDEA of freedom reached unprecedented heights
with the American Revolution, before such words like "capitalism" or "communism"
existed. This idea purged its own internal hypocrisy by freeing the slaves in
the Civil War. In many ways, Iraqi Freedom was inevitable. The idea of Freedom
is too dynamic to be contained. It lives in the hearts and minds of all
people. Iraqi Freedom will go down in the history books as the most moral war in
human history. We went to free a people from a tyrant, and (this is relevant to
this group) to spread an intellectually Dynamic message: Freedom.
When the pettiness of politically motivated skepticism has faded away, the
indelible consequences of Iraqi Freedom will remain. A kind of universal joint
has been shifted, creating one of those rare seismic jolts that history rarely
notes more than once a century or even once a millennium. The fragility of the
American experiment can't be overexaggerated. Few of the Founding Fathers
thought it would last, even though they had dedicated their lives to it. It was
an Intellectually Dynamic Idea that was worth fighting and dying for, however
unrealistic. In many ways, America is a miracle baby. It survives. Grows up.
Remembers. Never in their wildest dreams did the Founding Fathers, those men who
liberated America from a Tyrant, imagine that one day the children of their
Freedom, children of their struggle for Dynamic Quality, would cross a mighty
ocean to free the people of Babylon from a Tyrant. I think they'd be proud. I
know I am.
Jon
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