So you're saying Franks somehow managed to get promoted from 2nd Lt. to General during his thirty-six years of military service -- earning more than seventeen medals in the process -- without ever getting any results?
Or are you saying that his ability to lead should be judged only by your impression of what he's accomplished in the last few years of his career?
Either would, obviously, produce "boggled astonishment."
'm sorry, but Coulter is evil, for exactly the reasons our host stated: she's made a career out of making hurtful, divisive, inflammatory comments and urging others to do and say the same.
The trouble is, if you call that evil, what word is left for the real horrors man commits against man? "Evil" is diluted to being a rough equivalent of "very very bad."
If Coulter is evil, why are you not calling for her arrest? Surely evil deserves stern punishment. How can you be willing to let Coulter walk the streets? Is not evil worthy of being opposed wherever it rears its head? Why not call for her death or (if you are against capital punishment even in cases of obvious evil) call for her to be imprisoned for life to prevent her from committing further atrocities?
I hope you're recoiling from that notion. In fact, I'm sure you are. You recoil because you know in your gut that speech, even hateful and ugly speech, cannot truly rise to the level of evil. And labeling Coulter "evil" on the basis of things she's said is hyperbole, plain and simple. She may be deeply unpleasant, mean, nasty, a chrome-plated bitch, a shit-stirrer, and any number of other epithets. But she is (just barely perhaps) on this side of the line from "evil."
America's First War on Terror was in fact against the Barbary Pirates.
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