QUOTE: Jay Nordinger:
"Finally, I was griping last week about the word 'homeland,' which I thought was a little un-American, and had a few unsavory associations. A reader says, 'It's my understanding that 'Homeland' is actually jargon from the missile-defense program. A Homeland Defense is a system defending a country, to differentiate from Theater Defenses, like Patriot missiles, Phalanx gun systems, etc., which protect a battlefield or a ship. You're right that it's better than 'Fatherland,' but you don't point out that it also beats 'Motherland,' which was the Commie fetish.
'Personally, I would prefer to call the thing 'The Department for Preventing People From F***ing With Us,' but don't know if it would fit on the letterhead.'
A man after my own heart -- and mind."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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