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Wysłany: Pon 15:42, 07 Mar 2011 Temat postu: four frontier spirit |
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four frontier spirit: the in-
genious individualist who gets around the system and faces down
the drones.
From Abigail Adams to Tom Sawyer to Bugs Bunny to Jimmy
Stewart’s Jefferson Smith to Indiana Jonesthe best American char-
acter is pluckynimblecleverinventive.
So it’s disturbing to see our government reacting to crises with a
jaded shrug and lumbering gaitespecially since we are up against
such a creativechameleon-like enemy.
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Consider the pathetic performance ofNASAwhich inverted its
motto to “Failure is an option” by shrugging offwarnings about the
safety ofthe seven Columbiaastronauts who burned up coming
back to earthand not trying to send up a rescue shuttle.
This no-can-do spirit marked George Tenet’s lame excuses to sen-
ators in February who wanted to know why the CIA never picked up
the trail ofMarwan al-Shehhithe pilot who crashed Flight 175
into the south tower on 9/11even though the Germans gave the
agency his name and phone number. “They didn’t give us a ?rst and
a last name until after 9/11” Mr. Tenet said.
And what would Eliot Ness say about an FBI that is less computer
savvy than American preschoolers and Islamic terrori [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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