Defending Ourselves ; Have We Lost Survival Instinct?
The Washington Times › March 30, 2007
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Quick somebody promote Lt. Cmdr. Erik Horner for good instincts. "We not only have a right to self-defense but also an obligation to self-defense," the second-in-command officer of the USS Underwood said, referring to the surrender by 15 British sailors in Iraqi waters to Iranian forces last week. "[The British] had every right to defend themselves rather than allow themselves to be taken. Our reaction was, 'Why didn't you guys defend yourselves?' "
Better to ask why the larger Western world didn't teach these sailors to defend themselves, both as their personal right and their societal obligation. And speaking of societal obligations, could someone please explain why the sailor-mother of a three-year-old now imprinted on history for performing the hostage-squirm in a Muslim headscarf was required on this mission in the first place? But I digress (sort of).See the full content of this document
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Defending Ourselves ; Have We Lost Survival Instinct?
When a civilization no longer inculcates an overriding attachment to its own survival, well, it no longer survives as a civilization. In peacetime, the disintegration appears more theoreti...
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