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Some people at my church studied under one of these men.

These people are more in touch with reality than Mr. Limbaugh. They have no illusions. They don't think that there is no hostility. They are more aware than Mr. Limbaugh is of the reality of hostility and war.

This, perhaps, is why he encourages it as long as it's happening to someone else, and they are willing to go to where it is happening to try to prevent it from happening to someone else.

Tom Fox believed so strongly in freeing captives and preventing deaths that he was willing to risk captivity and death to address this. In a world full of other peoples' problems, he was one of the few to try to solve a problem instead of adding to it.

There are pacifists I do not particularly respect, but Tom Fox is not among them. The flaw in pacifism is a tendancy to cowardice, but in the war of words that Limbaugh wants, it is the fat rich man in America gloating over the suffering of others, while his own is in no danger, who best exemplifies pure cowardice. He reminds me of Wimpy; "Let's you and him fight!"