Language Liberalism Freethought Birds Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds. Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time. The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church. If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
But what do we expect to accomplish between now and 2014, when our troops are supposed to come home?
And this is the bottom line of the answer:
We can be absolutely certain that the Taliban insurgents will still constitute a threat, because—and this is what gung-ho advocates of the war fail to grasp—they live there. To them, Afghanistan is not a battlefield but a home.
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