Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
A Pulitzer Prize would be puny reward for Richard Fernandez’ effort on this matter.
Steven Hayward has an apt comparison.
CNN (!) notes the circs.
Was ever there a more cold-hearted bastard?
Althouse parades her ignorance, as do most of her commenters. Her commenter The Drill SGT, however, adds this apt comparison and he also refers to Fernandez above.
Fernandez’ effort demonstrates that great literature can be created during godawful times. This one puts him with Homer, Cicero and St. Jerome. At the end of his essay, Fernandez rings and riffs on one of the greatest speeches ever made: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s Sylvanus Thayer Award Address, known also as The Duty Honor Country Speech.
James Taranto: A Foreign Policy of Cliche And Equivocation. Taranto is being generous, pulling punches.
Tammy Bruce: Sounding Retreat At West Point.
Ayn Rand: Speech at West Point, 06 March 1974
Contrast: President George W. Bush at Washington National Cathedral three days after 11 September 2001. POTUS engaging his countrymen.
Update 1: USMA, USNA and USAFA are led by career-end 3-stars for some time now. Ideally they are led by career-move 2-stars fresh from one combat command and on their way to another. They should not have been Corps Squad athletes when Cadets or Midshipmen. And they should answer to their chief-of-service and CJCS instead of wealthy fellow graduates and their alumni associations. Ditto the Commandants, who should be career-move 1-stars fresh from one combat command and on their way to another.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
