tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post762000856199257261..comments2024-02-27T12:41:35.811-08:00Comments on Coming to Terms...: Freedom Isn't FreeLisa :-]http://www.blogger.com/profile/02237889098638895390noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-12199090323749521862014-05-26T11:54:39.677-07:002014-05-26T11:54:39.677-07:00and unless your read magazines like Soujourners yo...and unless your read magazines like Soujourners you won't find out one of saddest blow backs from our invasions of the MIddle East. Bush called our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan a "crusade." Probably not realizing what that word means in that part of the world. Idiot politicians trummpet that this is a "Christian" nation. The upshot is that Christian communities that have existed in Iraq and the surrounding countries are gone. If you're a Christian you're suspect, probably a traitor. What was it somebody said about tangled webs and uninteded consequences?JACKIEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883028058826030899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-59639063510445997852012-06-08T16:45:58.491-07:002012-06-08T16:45:58.491-07:00You've got another friend in agreement here. ...You've got another friend in agreement here. There's nothing more I can add, but this is beautifully written.Cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11641264346663533706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-6281139487765530902012-05-30T08:30:13.334-07:002012-05-30T08:30:13.334-07:00You and I need to get together for a long, long lu...You and I need to get together for a long, long lunch in a quiet corner somewhere. <br /><br />I agree with damn near everything you said. We fought our proxy war against Communism on a dozen fronts and never counted the cost, not even of our own. Fifty thousand names on the Viet Nam Memorial. Who knows the names of dead in the villages we had to destroy to save. Two hundred thousand in Guatamala's civil war, over seventy in El Salvador, killed with weapons we supplied by troops we helped train. How many in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, as the dictators fell. Some we knew were assholes, but "hey at least I'm not a communist asshole." <br /><br />No freedom isn't free. It takes a lot of work and a lot of responsiblitly. I have to hand one thing to the radical conservatives. They have a goal and they don't give a damn who gets hurt getting there. So, how to be beat them without becoming them?JACKIEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883028058826030899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-14084535037232071272012-05-29T19:06:35.655-07:002012-05-29T19:06:35.655-07:00While I'm at it, may I just say that I hate th...While I'm at it, may I just say that I hate the new Blogger? I write a comment and it disappears, and I have no idea if it will show up or not.<br /><br />I wrote that you won't be losing my friendship over this essay, because I agree with you. I'm sad to say it, but I lost faith in America some time ago. If I were younger, I would leave, although I don't know where I'd go. If any of my children left, I'd follow in a NY minute. It seems to me that we are only concerned with injustice for those people whose countries have resources that we want for ourselves; the rest of the world can go to hell insofar as America is concerned. We're on the decline.emmapeelDallashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05045502725282481075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-12899180779122476352012-05-29T18:20:52.362-07:002012-05-29T18:20:52.362-07:00I completely agree with you and have said this sam...I completely agree with you and have said this same thing many times myself. Our freedom has not been at stake, no one has invaded the US. I've never liked all the simplistic flag waving, fighting for our freedom rhetoric. It reduces difficult and complex situations into easy sound bites.Stacyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02521504653710527863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4283072392763163737.post-65512178851004531032012-05-29T16:41:15.178-07:002012-05-29T16:41:15.178-07:00Yes, aside from the exclusive use of male pronouns...Yes, aside from the exclusive use of male pronouns this is a fabulous speach. I really like Sorkin as a writer. Smart and savvy. <br /><br />Have you read, Broken We Kneel, reflections on faith and citizenship, by Diana Butler Bass...its along the same lines as you write here. You might like it. It is her response to the patriotic reaction of this country after 9-11Terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667178624061122421noreply@blogger.com