Posted on 11/06/2007 7:34:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Incredible! It reminds me of that old saying, “When you’re up to your a$$ in alligators, it’s too late to ask who forgot to drain the swamp”. These clowns want to go back and drain the swamp, while pretending that the alligators still in the swamp are a minor nuisance with which we just have to live. This is nothing but a Clinton Campaign commercial, all the buzz words point to that: Abu Ghraib, Katrina, money for AIDS-related programs. Thanks to the exertions of rough men, who have driven the wolves from our door, it’s now possible to dream of a Socialist Utopia again.
Thank you Eagle, I am doing fine and trying to be careful :)
“citing half a dozen opinion polls from around the world”
That’s some rigid research!
/sarc
Let me put it to you this way...if these Muslim extremists weren’t so insane I wouldn’t be here talking to you today.
They only understand one language and that’s violence. Thankfully they only speak third grade broken violence whereas we speak fluent violence. (F-15s, laser guided bombs) We have a PhD in the language.
Whatever it is, I’m in favor of any candidate who will leave me alone as an American citizen and slaughter the enemy.
That is a good platform, frankly.
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Wringing my hands, holding my head, unable to stop weeping....well, time for another beer.
The EU may make a copy of the GPS cloud of satellites, but obviously they lack the innovation to develop them first.
The USSR may be able to reverse engineer stealth technology, but they lack the innovation to create them first.
Japan may be able to create tens of millions of cheap knock-off automobiles, but they lack the innovation to create the first ones.
The day that America stops, human progress forward stops.
If America's reputation is tarnished, it's because the left the world over has worked so very hard to tarnish it.
Whether the left believes it or not, AMERICAN WARS SET MEN FREE!
Ask al queda whether it was European/Canadian "soft power" that beat them out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
That's the answer to all of these kind of questions.
“What is AFP? Not Armed Forces Press, I hope?”
AFP is a news service which fancies itself to be a big time deal. It is based in Paris, France. Fancy that.
“Not sure how nation building relates to kinder, gentler.”
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Joe Biden says the U.S. should break Iraq into three countries Sunni, Shiite and Kurd - nary a peep out of the Weft.
GW says Iraq needs to have some free choice, a constitution, etc. Total havoc on the Weft; GW is NATION-BUILDING...IT’S AWFUL..COLONIZING....and more drivel.
NEWS FLASH: France is now Pro-Bush and Pro-America! Big Muscles = Good. Weak Muscles = Panty Waist.
I agree, sorta.
When America does things that are wrong, as we have in the past and will in the future, we should apologize and try to make restitution.
What he is talking about here, however, I think, is that many furriners and anti-American Americans think we should apologize for being America, as if our net record is one of evil.
I disagree with that notion completely.
Go figure. ‘Course it also sounds like it could have been put out by the dnc.
Oh oh BIG BAD GRUMPY AMERICA AGAIN..Too friggin bad. I really don’t give a rats ass what other countries think of the US. They run to us for everything , every time there is troubles . I guess we should have smiled after 9/11 and said, “thank you sir , I’ll take another”.
IMHO the US should become a realpolitik nation with a Godfather mentality President. I like to spread democracy in the world but we cannot avoid being labeled a hypocrite. Kind of tricky to criticize China on religious freedom and then coddle to Saudi Arabia who is religiously intolerant for oil. I would deal with nations on a one on one basis of how they treated us in the past and what we can get from them. Giving billions to Indonesia after the tsunami after their Muslim politicians thought we deserved 9/11 and running to our chopters to get food and water in Bin Laden T shirts really irk me. I say the US close their wallets and use the power to say no when the EU demand that we send money and troops somewhere in the world like Bosnia, Somalia and etc, when their population vilfied the US and Americans overseas because they do not agree with our war in Iraq. I agree on one thing, we need to take care of home first before we go running around overseas on a crusade and handing money out to ungrateful world.
It IS pure BS. Tell them so
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So hard power includes both "wielding carrots and sticks"? Silly me. I thought hard power had nothing to do with metaphorical carrots; this sounds more like a part of "soft power."
Among recommendations the commission gave to help restore the good image of the United States were a renewed commitment to international treaties and institutions, and reinvigorated alliances.
In other words, we should simply embrace the "progressive" agenda.
"The images of prisoner abuse from Abu Ghraib ... seemed emblematic of this double standard."
The operative word is "images." There is no context in which image can be taken as a synonym for reality.
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