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Re: OT: Veterans' Day 2003
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Jay Maynard <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:16:16 -0600
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:37:32PM -0500, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> Jay writes:
> > > Jay - if you want peace, prepare for war.
> >  A philosophy with which I totally agree and which I practice on a personal
> >  level.
> Ah, the other, more popular interpretation of the Bible: "Yea, though I walk
> through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil -- because I'm
> the meanest muther in the Valley!"

Not necessarily the meanest...but I do believe that I have not only a right,
but a duty, to defend mself if attacked. See Jeffrey Snyder's excellent
essay, A Nation of Cowards, for the reasoning. You can find it at
http://www.rkba.org/comment/cowards.html .

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