Matthew Sweet Quotes
I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.
Sweet, Matthew. "Holy War." Girlfriend, Zoo Entertainment, 1991.
To make matters worse for the Muslims, the tiny foreign entity in their midst—populated by "heathens who do not follow the command of God"—have created a much higher standard of living for their people, improved the land and its productivity in ways that have been far superior to traditional Islamic methods, reclaimed much of the desert that the Muslims could not, and produced a military that has staved off the hostilities of all of Islam, and has done all this without any oil or other natural resources to sell. Israel is a living counter-example to the superiority of Islam and its traditions which is so important to Muslims.
There was a Sedition law which made it a Federal felony to encourage anyone not to join or support the military during the First World War. The Socialist Politician and Candidate for President, Eugene Debbs and others, were jailed for less seditious statements. Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who was blind and deaf, and yet she became a great orator and social reformer. The administration died not relish the reaction if they put this popular, blind, deaf woman in jail so she was never charged. The law of course was unconstitutional, but it took years to reach that determination. Until then, the Sedition Act was one of the worst examples of infringement in American history since the original Alien and Sedition Acts of John Adams.
The Syrian Civil War created a great dilemma for pacifists. The government of Syria was murdering civilians in large numbers if they were in areas suspected of containing rebels. Diplomacy and sanctions would not stop the slaughter. It appeared that the only way to stop the murder of so many civilians was to use military force against the Syrian government. Junger posed the moral dilemma this way.
He was then a CIA secret operative, in effect the “Commanding General of the War in Laos. The Viet Cong to avoid attack by American and South Vietnamese troops would cross the border into Laos where they could resupply, rest and reenter Vietnam at a strategic time and place. The American’s, to cope with this tactic, bombed the Viet Cong camps in Laos and CIA personnel organized attacks on the Viet Cong. To some, it was a dirty, illegal war by the standards of International and American law and its existence was denied by the U. S. Government for years.
Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who was part of the burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, during the 1980s before gaining commercial success in the 1990s as a solo artist. His companion albums, Tomorrow Forever and Tomorrow's Daughter, were followed by 2018's Wicked System of Things and 2021's Catspaw, his 15th studio effort.
