Wednesday, April 9, 2003 |
22:05 - VB Day
http://www.punning_pundit.blogspot.com/2003_04_06_punning_pundit_archive.html#923326
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Andrew the Punnng Pundit has declared today "VB Day", the day of victory over the Ba'athists. And he makes a point that I think is frequently lost, even on those who have Bill Whittle on a slow intravenous drip:
The US is designed, from the ground up, for one specific reason, to do one specific task: to make life for Tyrants as hard as possible. America is not about Homelands, but rather about constitutions. During the darkest days of the Civil war, when the whole world waited outside to recognize America's dissolution—and the disillusion of the American people—the greatest president our nation had ever known stood up and made a speech. There he said that we would no longer be fighting just for the sake of being one nation, we would also fight for a bigger task; freedom for everyone. It was not until the call for Americans to free a people held in bondage went forth that America began to win the war. Singing John Brown's Body they marched into battle. Behind them they left Freedmen, and Freedmen's Bureaus. The fact that it took a generation to reconstruct a shadow of that Tyranny is a tribute to the men who ended it the first time...
And so today, we see that America has once more; this very day, 9 April 2003; fulfilled her mission. We have once more helped topple a dictator, a tyrant. We are told that theGame is over. We have fulfilled once more our historic mission...
It's a world of blogs and space travel, of McDonald's and destruction derbies. But one thing that this world has not outgrown, for all its progress, is tyranny. Tyrants existed back in the eighteenth century too-- imagine that. And oddly enough, that's what makes the Constitution as applicable today as it was then. That, I might venture to say, is why the USA still stands, in much the same form as it did two hundred years ago.
The world today is much freer of tyranny than it was then, but it'll never be completely free. There will always be Saddams who create themselves the moment they see the opportunity. In their absence, it's easy for America to evolve toward the postmodern middle ground that Europe has become; but as has now been demonstrated, that globalist paradise makes a poor deterrent against such men arising, and an even poorer countermeasure. Those are the occasions when the world needs America to be America.
The whole world can't be America; perhaps that's as it should be. But history will record April of 2003 as another of those occasions, repeated every few decades, when the world was saved from being a much worse place because America existed.
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