January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

around ( I was born in 1972).I agree that Benito Mussolini was a piece of crap
and that we Italians acted like shit in WW2, but Italy is still a great country.
We are a small country but we have produced a good part of the civilization.
Galilei was Italian, Fermi was Italian, Michelangelo Buonarroti was
Italian,Cristoforo Colombo was Italian, Leonardo Da Vinci was Italian,Dante
Alighieri was Italian, Giacomo Leopardi was Italian, Erminio Spalla was Italian,
Giuseppe Verdi was Italia, Primo Carnera was Italian, Giacomo Puccini was
Italian ... How much time I have (or got) ? VIVA L' ITALIA, for God's sake
!|
|9/6/04 01:29:12 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Another thing: Antonio Meucci was the
real inventor of the telephon, Graham Bell was only a bum who stole the
invention. Antonio Meucci was Italian. Anyway, USA is a great country that
I sincerely love. |
|9/6/04 04:27:53 PM|Noam|Miami||chom@aol.com||||10|Kent, yes there were many
foreign policy debacles under Reagan, but my list was events or issues that
characterized each presidency.Reagan's time was marked by far more
globally important issues such as ending the Cold War, defeating communism,
forging a great alliance with Gorbachov.The failures you mention are
relevant and terrible, but in the context of the times, not quite as
significant.With guys like Carter we have to speak of their failures
because they didn't have more relevant successes. It is the losses that stand
out, not the wins.Democrats have lost their way. They are reactive, not
proactive. They look for ways to appease voters with gimmicks and stunts that
will do no good, rather than showing the courage to suggest unpopular policies
capable of solving the problem.Look at Clinton. He had the perfect
opportunity to achieve and solve. The Cold War was over. Communism was defeated.
There was no arms race. But like JFK he couldn't keep Charlie in his pants and
his whole presidency is characterized by scandals and seminal
stains.Clinton took his eye off the ball and rubbish like Usama and
radical Islam flourished enough to eventually challenge us. George W.
has had to play catch-up during his first term, fixing the problems others left
him, yet we are in a pretty good position. We have lost nearly 900 brave
soldiers in Iraq and it is terrible and they can never be replaced. But it is
wrong to say that we have another Vietnam where we lost 56,000.George W.
has shown leadership. He is prepared to make electorally unpopular decisions
because he thinks it is the right thing to do. He has had the courage to take
the fight to our enemies in their homelands. And he has not been frightened to
confront our traditional allies to compel them to pull their weight in helping
us after decades of not doing so.He also exposed the United Nations for
the elitist club that it really is. Our country more than any other supports the
UN but, until recent years, no one had the guts to challenge it to do its job
(as George W. now has done).To the weak like France and Spain, we now
know that they cannot be relied on. George W. has made the world much more
truthful because we all know where everyone stands on foreign policy and
terrorism. Kerry stands for flip flopping. One minute he was for the
Iraq War, the next minute against it. Last year he said there were weapons of
mass destruction, but this year he accuses George W of telling lies for also
saying that there was. Kerry agreed with the Vietnam War, and then he was
protesting with Jane Fonda against it. He makes me dizzy.Of course,
dunces like Kerry attract other dunces and November will be a litmus test as to
our nation's intelligence. We will know how many stupid people we have by
counting the Kerry votes. |
|9/6/04 07:42:28 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Noam, I was
just pointing out that everyone goes around thinking Reagan was tough on
terrorism due to one response on one occasion against Lybia. When in fact there
were some chinks in the knights armor when it came to terrorists taking our
people hostage, which under Reagan were in terrorist custody longer than the