Filename: 20050705_Harvey_Alex.mp3
Air Date: July 5, 2005 21 lines.
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I've been choking on something for weeks.
Let's get it up and get it out for what it's worth.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill said that the American people, he told the American people, he said, and this is a direct quote, we didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy.
That was his response to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
That we didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy.
And that reminder was taken seriously, and we proceeded to develop and deliver THE BOMB, even though roughly 150,000 men, women, and children perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a single blow, World War II was over.
Following New York's September 11 Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill was not here to remind us
That we didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy.
So, following the New York disaster, we mustered our humanity, we gave old pals a pass, even though men and money from Saudi Arabia were largely responsible for the devastation of New York and Pennsylvania and our Pentagon.
We called Saudi Arabians our partners against terrorism, and we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in their silos.
Even now we're standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive, because we've declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies, more moral, more civilized.
Our image is at stake, we insist.
But we didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy.
Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans.
Yes, that was biological warfare.
And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever, and we grew prosperous.
And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.
And so it goes with most great nation-states, which feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilized themselves out of business, and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry, up-and-coming,