Posted on 10/10/2007 8:52:21 AM PDT by NewMediaJournal
I am listening to one of the courses from The Teaching Company these days, this one The Wisdom of History by Prof. J. Rufus Fears, David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. He is absolutely the best speaker, professor, I have ever heard, both brilliant and eloquent. One of the points he keeps making, and making, and making, is that the rise and fall of nations and empires very often hinges on the decisions, or indecisions, of one man (or woman), that history is not made by grand sweeping social forces and so forth, so much as by the influence and force of character of specific individuals.
A President Hillary Clinton (or Barack Obama, or John Edwards, or Ron Paul), hostile to the use of America's force, for ideological reasons, and hostile to the idea of American exceptionalism and American imperialism, the projection of power, is, to my thinking, very likely, if not certain, to do grave and irreparable harm to the future of the United States and to the future of free societies around the world.
At best ambivalent about America's destiny to be the beacon of liberty on the hill, shining the light of liberty on the world, and ambivalent (at best) about using the combined moral, economic, political, and military forces of America to carry out that mission, I fear any Democrat government at this juncture in history will dissipate America's momentum in a morass of multiculturalism and moral equivalence, in approval-seeking from foreign governments that share little or nothing of America's ideals, in moral and political timidity and myopia, much as the Chamberlain government once did in England.
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Easy one.
President Hillary Clinton & The Future Of Civilization
Future of Civilization would be DOOM.
“President Hillary Clinton & The Future Of Civilization”....is no future at all...
WOW! That article was right on target.
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