11-18-2005, 03:09 AM
I’ve always been in awe of Bill Buckley’s vocabulary. Frequently I wonder what the hell he just said, or wrote. And sometimes I wonder if even he knows for sure. That’s why I read his column only occasionally.
This one I liked. He reins in his knowledge of the English language and offers a good, IMO, analysis of al-Qaida, the Jordan bombing and our situation in Iraq.
Our attempts to analyze/understand/figure out what the hell fanatics think/believe, accomplish nothing. They can not be ignored or run away from. They are not interested in negotiating. Their vision of the world is not like any I care to live in. Somehow, someway, they’ve got to be stopped.
So far, the only means of stopping them, that I’ve seen, is eradication. It’s not going to happen soon or easily - it‘s a messy business. How we do it can be argued/discussed. But the longer we argue/discuss, the worse the mess gets. Constant battling among ourselves only helps them. They know it.
<ul type="square"> the column (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucwb/20051116/cm_ucwb/wildhitsonjordan) [/list]
This one I liked. He reins in his knowledge of the English language and offers a good, IMO, analysis of al-Qaida, the Jordan bombing and our situation in Iraq.
Our attempts to analyze/understand/figure out what the hell fanatics think/believe, accomplish nothing. They can not be ignored or run away from. They are not interested in negotiating. Their vision of the world is not like any I care to live in. Somehow, someway, they’ve got to be stopped.
So far, the only means of stopping them, that I’ve seen, is eradication. It’s not going to happen soon or easily - it‘s a messy business. How we do it can be argued/discussed. But the longer we argue/discuss, the worse the mess gets. Constant battling among ourselves only helps them. They know it.
<ul type="square"> the column (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucwb/20051116/cm_ucwb/wildhitsonjordan) [/list]