tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3831777205005785053..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Human ArithmeticFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-88114667497296079412015-11-23T00:29:16.747-05:002015-11-23T00:29:16.747-05:00Oops. I may have posted a comment meant to go into...Oops. I may have posted a comment meant to go into a window connected to an entirely different blog. My apologies if I did. Curtis LeMay doesn't fit into this post. Fran, if I did, please go ahead and delete it and this comment as well. Thanks.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-19710835806535338542015-11-23T00:25:46.896-05:002015-11-23T00:25:46.896-05:00My father was a B-17 pilot during WWII (8th AAF), ...My father was a B-17 pilot during WWII (8th AAF), bombing Germany (along with flying three or four humanitarian missions at the very end of the war, after VE Day. He then flew B-52s for SAC (Strategic Air Command, USAF).<br /><br />On several occasions, he referred to Curtis LeMay as "Old Iron-Ass". He never clarified if it was because LeMay was stubborn and unmovable once he formed an opinion, or if it was because he could sit in the pilot's seat longer than most without needing to have CPR performed upon his derriere. I know he respected him, though he wasn't always happy with what the general ordered.<br /><br />Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-13631511254790990272015-11-22T09:16:21.015-05:002015-11-22T09:16:21.015-05:00Dear Fran;
As often happens after I've been d...Dear Fran;<br /><br />As often happens after I've been drinking, I made the mistake of logging in and reading. Maybe it's just as well this is an old post; nobody will read the comments.<br /><br />Speaking of civilian casualties and your human arithmetic:<br /><br />There is a post of a guy with glasses on a platform at a college with a Muslim girl griping at him and the Youtube description is, the guy destroys the girl's argument, or some such. But he doesn't really destroy her argument. He just says if she doesn't disavow an aspect or two of the Koran, she's lying.<br /><br />The Muslim girl must have sat through his speech and then had the courage to stand up to a microphone and make her point. But I want to make another point that addresses (maybe) this idea of innocent casualties.<br /><br />I'm pretty old, and in my time I think I've broken 9 of the 10 commandments. I know I cheated at playing games with my friends, lied about many things, took advantage when I thought I could get away with it. But I'm really a coward and never stood up for what I was doing in an honest argument.<br /><br />To me, this is the state of the Muslim religion now. Whatever that girl's hopes and beliefs are about Islam, her co-religionists are using specific quotes to justify lying, cheating, chaos and murder. The only way they argue is to kill. And she won't disavow that.<br /><br />And although they might say they're doing it, "for Allah," she can't seem to use her own God-or-Allah given mind to understand the difference between human weakness and fanatic desire for the "best - no matter what the consequence."<br /><br />It's gonna sound harsh. But in your arithmetic, there are many who will seem innocent who aren't. I realize that Curtis LeMay may have been a jerk, and innocents died in Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There might come a time when someone has to choose between that innocent college Muslim and the kid next door.<br /><br />The "last graf?"<br /><br />Many innocents are going to die. Choose. Muslims - or Christians, Jews, and Western Civilization.Tim Turnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-85832456089148480932015-11-20T11:44:26.052-05:002015-11-20T11:44:26.052-05:00I started to bristle at RAH (one of my favorite a...I started to bristle at RAH (one of my favorite authors since I got my first library card) including "all human religions". However, islam fails that category in two ways: it is not a religion (any more than Heinlein's contemporary L. Ron Hubbard's "Church of Scientology" is a religion), and because by their actions, muslims exclude themselves from "humanity".Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.com