tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post5013468986808468918..comments2024-03-09T03:19:57.797-05:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: What I'd like us to remember from the days after 9/11...Steven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-59779353290127744072009-09-13T18:31:00.028-04:002009-09-13T18:31:00.028-04:00Bowly
My source on the size of DHS is none other t...Bowly<br />My source on the size of DHS is none other than DHS.<br /><br />I cannot give you a link tonight, but I have been looking at multiple sources on this for years.<br /><br />Remember, you have to view DHS as an umbrella agency with authority over<br /><br />FBI<br />CIA<br />NRO<br />NSA<br />TSA<br />FEMA<br />ODP<br />INS<br /><br />and about a dozen more agencies.Steven H. Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-79364109871833390052009-09-13T11:01:52.287-04:002009-09-13T11:01:52.287-04:00The Department of Homeland Security has become the...<i>The Department of Homeland Security has become the single largest bureaucracy in American history....</i><br /><br />I'm with you on the overall thrust of your article and even this particular point, but is that statement objectively true? Is it larger than the IRS? The DOD? I don't know and I'm too lazy to research it. But I'd be surprised if it were.<br /><br /><i>My eyes aren't blind, I am no mindless robot, but we started it now we need to finish it, if not you betray those who gave their lives already.</i><br /><br />I used to believe that way. I understand where you're coming from, and I don't deny that it takes a lot of courage to do what people like you have done. But the logical extension of your statement is that we should not give up, even if it takes the life of <i>every single American</i>. That is obviously untrue, therefore there is a point at which we should stop accepting casualties. My number just happens to be a lot lower than yours. Don't think of it as betraying the ones who've already died, but as preserving the ones who haven't yet. I know they're volunteers, but so were some of the virgins who got tossed into volcanoes. What really matters is whether volcano-tossing does any good. No one would recommend continuing to toss virgins into volcanoes just because we've already tossed a bunch in.Bowlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08368370082055845451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-51883782925212080502009-09-13T10:03:15.624-04:002009-09-13T10:03:15.624-04:00Steve,
Here is what I remember about 9/11, I we...Steve,<br /> Here is what I remember about 9/11, I went back to war, for the second time in my career. Only this time, the attack was on us. I have a problem with the WMD issue, and history says that the odds are against us in Afgan. That being said, I know now what the Vietnam Vets feel like, alone and abandoned, they did what they thought was right, and look what they got for it. I equate my position on this like that of the commander of the U-Boat in Das Boot. He is my kind of patriot, compared the the true beliver Nazi first officer he had. You may find fault with my analogy yet it fits for me. My eyes aren't blind, I am no mindless robot, but we started it now we need to finish it, if not you betray those who gave their lives already. I am old, but I go and volunteer for the kids, they need old hands and maybe I will bring them all home again safe one more time. War is cruel and ugly, we agree there, and there is never a good one, but I will do whatever it takes to keep my men safe, and as long as I am not asked to draw my sword against my own, I will keep doing my duty. I remember a King lost his head once partly because he helped a bunch of rebels fight tyranny, sure he wasn't pure in his motives, but I wonder if he thought it was worth the price he paid?<br /><br />MarshFoxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-12387119917195893922009-09-12T23:26:20.632-04:002009-09-12T23:26:20.632-04:00do you even remember what it was like after 9/11? ...do you even remember what it was like after 9/11? we didn't give into our fears, people were scared for their lives <br /><br />-4567Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com