Conservative Culture

HT Atlas Shrugs: About time. How long before we find that Saddam was truly guilty of having weapons of mass destruction… that Syria and Iran are funding the terror in Iraq… and that liberal Democrats are parroting the radical Islamic lines calling for defeat?

Finally, official recognition that Iran declared war on America back in ‘ 83 when they murdered 241 Marines in Beirut in what was the single largest non nuclear explosion since World War II.  I thought Reagan was wrong then, and I still think he was wrong. Whether he understood Islamic jihad or not, we were attacked and he should have responded with unforgiving force. FACT. We wouldn’t be in the straits we are in now incapable of defining ourselves, icapable of defending our Western beliefs, and spastic in our approach to winning this war with an enemy who has nothing, NOTHING, except self confidence and a very real understanding of who they are. Pure evil.

Iran fined $2.65 billion for ’83 Beirut bombing MSNBC  hat tip Helen
Judge awards sum to families of U.S. service members killed in barracks

WASHINGTON - Iran must pay $2.65 billion to the families of the 241 U.S. service members killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, a federal judge declared Friday in a ruling that left survivors and families shedding tears of joy.

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 Oh how true it is.

“Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.”
– George Mason (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention,
14 June 1788)

Reference: The Debates of the Several State…, Elliot, vol. 3
(405)

Similar words are found in “Common Sense” and remain a concern even today.

…and that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors, prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often; because as the elected might by that means return and mix again with the general body of the electors in a few months, their fidelity to the public will be secured by the prudent reflection of not making a rod for themselves. And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community….

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