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billgerat
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A Promise To My Grandfather

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/4/151715/5913

A remarkable story, and some of the responses even more so.

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03-06-2005 02:43 AM

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CHiPsJr
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I wonder how many of kos' readers will be inspired to support concrete action against genocide.

That generally requires force, you know. Fred Phelps and Ann Coulter are small potatoes given what's actually going on in, say, Sudan, and moral posturing is pretty unimpressive in the face thereof.

Interesting coincidence, though.

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Nutrimentia
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Niggers killing other niggers isn't a threat to national security and unrelated to terra, so it's going to be hard to tap our national will to deploy force, which generally is only based on retribution or avengement of slights to our honor.

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Amazing story. Very moving, and makes history real in way that is unusual in the extreme. Thanks for that link, bilge.

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