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3/08/2003

In response to a friend's rather blatently bitter asault on my post that we should not go to war I'll let John Jay speak for me since my opinion evidently is for naught.
It is too true, however disgraceful to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, that absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for purposes and objects merely personal, such as a thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctioned by justice or the voice and interests of his people. But, independent of these inducements to war, which are most prevelant in absolute monarchies, but which well deserve our attention, there are others which affect nations as often as kings; and some of them will on examination be found to grow out of our relevent situation and circumstances.
-John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787
For the record, I don't think that becuase I am personally against the war that I should be labeled "left minded" or that my opinion is strictly "fashionable," and I really can't remember the last time I called people who happened to be pro-war "hatemongers, killers or fascists"...but maybe that was in reference to all the other unpatriotic pacifist hippies. hm.
Thus to my good friend I say "Bah!" and I emailed you a week ago with nare a reply so I don't want to hear about this whole loss of contact thing being my fault...so there. nah.

On a lighter note I just got in from Tulsa from seeing my little brother knock 'em dead as Seymore in his high school's production of "Little Shop of Horrors." The girls swooned, the boys wrote his name on their chests...I was one proud sister indeed. You'll see his name in lights someday and I'll be right there to say that I taught him all he knows.

posted at 6:19 PM

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3/08/2003

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