[Vision2020] What We Stand For (Bob Schieffer)

[Warren Hayman]

Thanks, Tom.

It has also been said at least a few times by at least a few people that 
education is our best defense strategy.

Warren Hayman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:45 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] What We Stand For (Bob Schieffer)


> >From today's (January 25, 2009) commentary by Bob Schieffer on "Face the
> Nation".
>
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>
> It is an example I have cited many times over the years, that Hubert
> Humphrey once said the 1964 Civil Rights Act was America's single most
> effective foreign policy initiative.
>
> It had nothing to do with foreign policy, but it told the world who we
> were and what we stood for, that our system was about fairness and equal
> treatment - and that it worked.
>
> I thought about that when Barack Obama announced that torture would never
> be part of our national policy.
>
> America has always been the most successful when it is leading by example,
> when we've practiced what we've preached.
>
> America's weapons did not win the Cold War; they kept the Soviet Union at
> bay. The war was won when the people on the other side looked across the
> Iron Curtain, saw a better way of life there, realized their system of
> government could not give it to them, and so the walls came down.
>
> With a simple declaration, President Obama told the world our system of
> government is so strong we don't need to torture people to survive. That
> is the way of those who would destroy us, but that is not us. We have
> found a better way.
>
> That is what our message to the world must be. More importantly, that is
> what we want our children to know. When we are admired and respected by
> others, we are far more secure than any weapon can ever make us.
>
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>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go
> to work."
>
> - Roy Zimmerman
>
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