Our Country grew from the seeds of "Greatness"....

[kenmar]

It doesn't take a tenured peace-preaching professor to understand that simple fact. But just in case any peace-preachers forgot how those seeds were planted, let's think back to the 1770's and remember how our Founding Fathers were confronted with two terrible facts. First, the only path to their freedom was war. Second, the cost for that freedom would be tremendous. Thank God they had the strength to follow through with their convictions.

For quite a few generations the cost of keeping that freedom was understood, accepted, and willingly paid. But, nature being what it is mutated some of our founder's seeds into a hybrid that lacked the guts to pay the price for freedom.

It's time once againfor Americans to choose what kind of seeds to plant, those that will germinate and continue our 1776 heritage, or the ones from the card burning 1960's draft dodgers who spit on our veterans.

I realize that for the most part this is preaching to the choir, but I just watched one of those beltwaytalking heads, upchucking more of their spineless rhetoric, and had to let off steam.

[MikeAI]

I still think it was the second English civil and was between people with money and the common people who had to bear the hurt!

http://www.thestreet.com/comment/easymoney/986308.html

Discuss!

[kenmar]

If you want to read what non-americans think about the early years of the American experiment, instead of the sophomoric drivel ofEugene Finerman() from the link in your post, try Alexis De Tocqueville.

Below is part of an introduction tohis bookby theHon. John T. Morgan. You can download both volumes of Tocqueville at the Project Gutenburg web site for free. http://www.promo.net/pg/

Have a good read.
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In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the
Independence of the United States from the completion of that act
in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of
America were bent upon the study of the principles of government
that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which
had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices.
Their studies were conducted in view of the imperfections that
experience had developed in the government of the Confederation,
and they were, therefore, practical and thorough.

When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a
new form of government was created, but it was neither
speculative nor experimental as to the principles on which it was
based. If they were true principles, as they were, the
government founded upon them was destined to a life and an
influence that would continue while the liberties it was intended
to preserve should be valued by the human family. Those
liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many
contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds and
established in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great
struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They
were consecrated theories, but no government had been previously
established for the great purpose of their preservation and
enforcement. That which was experimental in our plan of
government was the question whether democratic rule could be so
organized and conducted that it would not degenerate into license
and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the
people the power so often found necessary of repressing or
destroying their enemy, when he was found in the person of a
single despot.

When, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville came to study Democracy
in America, the trial of nearly a half-century of the working of
our system had been made, and it had been proved, by many crucial
tests, to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with
such results in the development of strength, in population,
wealth, and military and commercial power, as no age had ever
witnessed.