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Staying the Course

4.5.07 @ 12:01AM

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Keep well.
-- Dennis Rawson
California

Everyone will express shock and dismay when in one of his senile fits Mugabe turns his street thugs loose to slaughter the "Rhodies" who are sabotaging his little paradise. Of course the AU and the UN and the ACLU and any other group with initials will swing into high gear, hold meetings, and declare the situation to be deplorable.
-- Chris Buckley

CAPTIVE NATIONS
Re: John Tabin's Hostage Enrichment:

Three questions keep coming to mind every time this British Hostage situation comes up.

1) Why don't the British military personnel fight back?

2) Are they ordered to not fight back or are they not issued ammo?

3) Will they be able to fly the French flag the third time they are captured and put on parade?

The Iranians certainly know how to milk this good cop/bad cop situation they created but if any British government official has the courage to answer these questions I'd really like to know why your forces keep getting taken without a fight?
-- Thom Bateman
Newport News, Virginia

I recall that the Iranian regime got its start in a blaze of hostage taking. Wouldn't it be appropriate if the regime now came to an end because it did the same thing?
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

NOT AFRAID
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's It Must Be Easter:

Lisa Fabrizio makes a good point, in how Christianity is trashed in our news and entertainment media. It's not just the news and art galleries anymore, either. The kids have to be propagandized, too.

I have lost count of the number of cartoons in TV and movies where clergy and believers are portrayed as spiteful, bigoted morons, or useless cowards.

Anytime I see hate-the-Christians junk, I think, "You wouldn't dare do that to the Moslems, or traditional American Indian religions."

And our baby-boomer media types even think they are so brave when they do this! Attacking Christianity -- how brave, how daring, how original.

It's always Christianity that gets attacked, the racists are always white, the conformist town is always a right-wing suburb and never a left-wing campus---you get the idea.
-- John Lockwood
Washington, D.C.

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