We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/independence_da_1.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:27:24 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/independence_da_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/independence_da_1.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:39:38 -0600
*a-hem* ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/independence_da_1.html#comment-75030 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/independence_da_1.html#comment-75030 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:35:45 -0600 I love you and I love Beth and I love the Chief. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/independence_da_1.html#comment-75027 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/independence_da_1.html#comment-75027 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:52:56 -0600 as Englishmen from royal despotism.

Jerry Pournelle has said that our Rebellion was one of the few truly conservative revolutions in history. I think he's right.

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There's a better place over the waters of 'peace'. They call it Australia :P  But since it's your special day I won't mention that :D  I gotta hand it to the US, it had a hard and complete Independence we didn't do.

The reality is all nations and all people make mistakes.  We're loaded with them.  Mistakes are how we often learn and are actually a sign of strength.   For when they are missing we're talking about hiding mistakes which is not the same thing as not having any.

It's how we deal with the mistakes that matters.  Do we face the fear and work for betterment or hide and deny and thus let the mistake grow?


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What I am always amazed at are the critics who assume that, just because you don't jump up and down screaming "murderer" or "harlot" about your country and people, you are somehow blinded to her imperfections or those of its people.

They don't really get that that imperfection is part of the perfect whole.  There was no other country in the world where the imperfection of the common man instead of the perfection of an anointed king, ruled the people and governed the nation. 

What must be killing some is that, here we are in all our imperfection and we have existed longer than many dynasties.  We have the possibility to change our direction without assassinating the king.  How interesting it is that some have tried to change the course of history through assassinating the president of our nation and only coming up with nothing.  That's because they fail to understand that the president represents a national will, not an individual despot making up his own rules, despite what the detractors sometimes says or think.

Whatever the president does, we always have the chance to change it.    It is why we will survive as the world still tears itself apart at the seems of tyranny of oppression. 
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