Prodigal,

{otmon}
No, I don't care about whatever you were responding to. I was just
making the point that both sides of this political gulf have already
forgotten the hard learned lessons of less than sixty years ago. So,
I guess that we will all have to re-learn those lessons the hard way.

That we includes the western world, and it includes the islamic world.

And the "sheesh" was aimed at Richard Reid, and the people who inspired
him, not at you.

What I responded to in your post was the comment comparing the current USA
to the German REICH of 1936-45, and saying that we were already living in
it. We may yet get there (and I really really hope that we don't), but if
we were already there you would have been too scared to make a comment like
that in a public forum--because there _would_ have been a knock at your door in
the night, and the rest of us would never have known what happened to you.
I gather that you are not at all worried about that possibility?? Well then
we must not be there yet.

Defensive?? puhllleeeeze spare me. I'm just a student of history who has
a grasp on the reality of what happened during our grandparents generation.
It was a lot of really ugly things that all of us should have the sense not
to do again.

{otmoff}

Instead, we should go cruising, and make friends with people all over the
world. We should smile, and laugh, and dance, and tell jokes. Sometimes
we should laugh at other peoples lame jokes just because it makes them feel
good. We should eat good food that we prepared ourselves, and marvel at the
sunsets, and the deep azure blue ocean. And on that perfect day when the sun
smiles and the winds are fair, we should remember to feel a little sadness for
those who take life too seriously and thus never really get to live it.

Life's blessings and fair winds to you,

Don W.

prodigal1 wrote:

Don,
You want to take me to task for responding to whatsisname's OT political
comments?
puhllleeeeze
spare me defensiveness
do go cruising on that boat of yours
I think you'll find that the further you get away from the noise, the
clearer your perspective will be on current events