Carter replied, "Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war. Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonial's really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way. I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time." [/QUOTE]
It's amazing that a man who was once President of the United States, a Navy veteran at that, sounds like he has no clue whatsoever. I don't know. I felt the need to say something about this comment, but now find myself at a loss for words.[/QUOTE]
Ya know, Jimmy Carter was once a nice guy. Even when he was president, he was nice...but stupid. Now I see him lined up on the left with all these other bombthrowers. Here's what I have to tell you, Jim. Screw your propoganda about unnecessary war! The British were all tight@$$ed and the only way anybody was getting independance was through blood. We were the baddest dogs in the pack, so we took 'em on, and that's the only reason the other colonies got let go of so easily. We have to be frickin first at everything. We were the first the hit the Japanese back. We were the first to get truly ruthless with the Nazis (Desden anyone?). We were the first to figure out how stupid Europe was in WWI. We were the first to tell Russia to STFU and tear down the wall. We even invented all those things the Japanese now sell to us. And now, we're the first to take the fight to the terrorists and choose to shoot them in the head in their own country without remorse rather than drag them through a court system before having a fight about whether execution is "cruel and unusual." Everybody else is too much of a weiner to get things done and many of the rest are such big weiners they won't help us when we do.
Oh, and Lauer and Couric suck donkey balls. Only thing either of 'em has is that Couric is hot, so I can stand watching the Today Show as long as I can't hear it. The thing I hate the most, though, is how important people seem to think their lives are. Top headline on Netscape the other day was that Couric had a new boyfriend. WHO THE HELL CARES?! I am *this* close to getting my FIRST girlfriend and the only people who care are the people who have a right to: me, her, and our friends. Media, go crawl back into your whole and drink yourself into a stupor 'cause 'Hitler' won the election and LEAVE ME ALONE!
P.S. I'm not a military man, but many of my friends say I'm suited for it. I'm tempted...