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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
1. What you call surrender is the will of the people.
2. Eventually the people have a collective wisdom that supercedes the leaders unwise choices.
3. Too bad it has cost us so much for this unwise choice.
4. It could be argued that by being drawn into an unending mideast war we have actually surrendered to the desires of Al Queada.
Tom W
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1. Doesn't make it any less surrender.
2. the people can, and often do, make unwise collective choices. It's the downside of democracy that we tolerate. Because it is collective does not imbue it with virtue. A lynch mob makes collective choices, too.
3. On this we disagree.
4. You have borrowed CMAC's crystal ball?
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