[Vision2020] William F Buckley Jr.

[lfalen]

Ted
I hadn't heard that about Chomskey. He  did threaten to punch Gore Vidal, after Vidal called hiim a Nazzi. He imediatly regreted it.
Roger
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From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:21:46 -0800
To: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] William F Buckley Jr.

> William F. Buckley once threatened to punch Noam Chomsky in the face on
> "Firing Line" when Chomsky appeared as a guest.  This is shown in Chomsky's
> film, "Manufacturing Consent."
> 
> Having said that, I miss "Firing Line," and I respected Buckley's principled
> and eloquent conservatism.  He publicly stated that the Iraq War was a
> failed policy, and opposed the war on drugs.  Many think these positions are
> "left wing."  Yet I think that both the Iraq War and the war on drugs
> promote a "liberal" big government/big spending approach, that should
> inspire intense skepticism from anyone who advocates a general policy that
> big government intrusive tax payer burdening solutions to problems are to be
> avoided if possible.
> 
> I'm surprised by how many so called conservatives continue to insist that
> the invasion of Iraq was not a mistake, as the costs of the Iraq occupation
> climb hundreds of billions upon hundreds of billions of dollars, and world
> wide terrorism continues, in part inspired by hatred of the USA,
> for occupying Islamic nations.
> 
> William F. Buckley writing on the Iraq War at URL below:
> 
> http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200602241451.asp
> 
> CIA Bin Laden analyst Michael Scheuer on YouTube regarding Ron Paul's wise
> foreign policy views on the war on terror:
> 
> CIA Michael Scheuer Binladin Expert: Only Ron Paul Gets It
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOqXdbe7CVM
> 
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> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
> 
> On 2/27/08, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:13 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Flags should be flown at half mast today. William F. Buckley died this
> > morning at 82.
> >
> > I love William F. Buckley, but do you really think that he is such an
> > American icon that he merits flags at half-mast?
> >
> > I wonder, is there any official, designating criterion for this honor?
> >
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