Walter Cronkite CBS News (Feb. 27, 1968)

[Huldah]

Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon

This is what the bleeding hearts would have us do in Iraq Do Americans lack the back bone to stay the coarse ? NO ! We do have liberal politicians that lack back bone and want to cut bait and run or maybe we can buy friends in this world

Buying friends is always a very bad idea. And paying off your enemies to leave you alone or to not attach you is even a worse idea. Throughout history you can never find one example where soemone who baught his friends had any left when the money ran out. Neither can you find one example of a kingdom/country that payed their enemy to not bother them that the enemy, after emptying the coffers took the country anyway. So many "enlightened" folk think it is so "civilized" to pander to the enemy. The "Be friends with them and they will be friends with us" attitude will only cause us to be off our guard and unprepared when they attack.

This is just human nature. Unfortunately, no matter how "educated" we THINK we are, no matter how "modern" or "civilized" we THINK we are, the rest of the world still wants to either take this land or destroy it.

Lest we never forget.