A View from Behind the Curtain: Bombing Iraq

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Bombing Iraq

Does anyone really believe a few air strikes will make a difference? It seems we are now employing military force in much the same way the Wizard used smoke and flame in MGM's version of the Wizard of Oz. "Ignore the man behind the curtain, there is nothing to see here, move on!"

Now where did I put my ruby slippers?

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Gino said...: yes, its all about the man behind the curtain, and as the story goes... nothing to see there.; August 15, 2014 at 2:16 PM

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The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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