fuagf -- things that have happened have still happened whether they're understood and kept in mind in and as part of context so long as yet still relevant, or not -- that and other such episodes, Carter/Zbig starting Afghanistan to draw in the Soviets and dubya and the PNAC gang invading Iraq and engaging in torture bracketing that one, are simply evil and should never be forgotten but instead always kept in mind as exemplars of 'we'll do plenty, but we're not gonna do that (again)'
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
F6