'We are a democracy defended by volunteers who deserve all the support we can give them," the magnificent Dick Cheney is telling a Heritage Foundation audience this afternoon -- carried live, not only by Fox News but by CNN and MSNBC as well, at least for the first few minutes of the Vice President's presentation.
"The people in our military are some of the bravest men and women our nation has ever produced," says Dick Cheney to a Heritage Foundation audience this afternoon:
Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of force but by the perception of weakness.
We were waxing awestruck at the fact that all three cable networks seemed to be carrying the entire speech, but right on schedule, CNN, then MSNBC, then Fox News interrupted soon enough -- in order to move on to the latest bit of non news about the horrific mine disaster -- with vapid summaries of the VP's talking points:
Eavesdropping inside the U.S. without court approval has helped prevent terrorist attacks in the last four years and suggest that a similar program might have prevented the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon.
We'll have to catch the whole thing later on, we hope, in C-Span reruns. But getting down to cases, what do miners and Marines -- and their home-fire-burning families -- have in common besides six letters and being among "the bravest men and women our nation has ever produced"? An honor code that puts mainstream media ankle biters to shame, if only because our intellectual "betters" just don't get it. We keep hearing attempts to cast the miners and their families as victims of a vast, faceless corporate entity.
Maybe Mark Steyn was wrong in predicting the imminent demise of western civ. There are honor codes and honor codes. Those of the terrorists and the postmodern elites embrace death. Those of the US military and the WVA miners embrace life. To life!
The uncomprehending leftist, liberals etc. don't get it. It is their life style that the terrorists abhor. Only the brave and dedicated members of our armed forces focused by men like Dick Cheney and George W. Bush are preventing them from destroying Western civilization. Wake up America. The time grows short.
Posted by: goomp | January 04, 2006 at 04:45 PM
The left is so blinded by their hatred of Bush that they are falling in a ditch. And guess who they'll need to pull them out?
Great comment goomp!
Posted by: Laura Lee Donoho | January 04, 2006 at 11:22 PM
You know, you're right. The media and the left certainly do like to focus on death. It gets to be such a downer if that's all they talk about. I mean sure, we can speak of that, since it's a fact of life. However, there are other things-like babies, pets, etc. They are so boring with all this death.
Mind you, I'm trying to be facetious, not flippant.
Posted by: andophiroxia | January 06, 2006 at 01:28 AM