Still Thoughtful & Provocative....

Particularly On Memorial Day.

DSH
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OPINION JOURNAL FEDERATION

Moral Purification
Why intellectuals love defeat.

BY JOSH MANCHESTER
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
The Wall Street Journal

TCSDaily -- Technology, Commerce, Society

James Carroll, recently writing in the Boston Globe, wondered if America
could finally accept defeat in Iraq, and be the better for it, comparing it
to Vietnam:

"But what about the moral question? For all of the anguish felt over the
loss of American lives, can we acknowledge that there is something proper in
the way that hubristic American power has been thwarted? Can we admit that
the loss of honor will not come with how the war ends, because we lost our
honor when we began it? This time, can we accept defeat?"

"D. Spencer Hines" excelsior.com> wrote in message
news:b1K_j.1033$v91.3213@eagle.america.net...

it's reminicent of hitler in the fuhrer bunker in march 1945.
"if ve chust beliefve ve vill vin"