Eisenhower warned us

OC Register ^ | 11/30/03 | John L. Graham - UC Irvine Prof.

[NormsRevenge]

It was in an article in the National Interest in 1989 that Francis Fukuyama boldly asked if we had reached "The End of History." His notion was that free-enterprise democracy had finally defeated both communism and fascism. There would be no more real arguments about the best way to organize society. That was decided.

[NormsRevenge]

John L. Graham is a Professor of International Business, Graduate School of Management, U.C. Irvine

[GreyFriar]

You forgot the "Barf" alert. This man is living in a world where September 11, 2001 never happened.

[William McKinley]

This idiot obviously thinks that Saddam and the Taliban have free-enterprise Democracies and we don't.

How do we keep having professors who are absolutely brain-dead puppets for the far left?

[lady lawyer]

What a complete load of nonsense. The current conflict is between the West and radical Islam. He should read Samuel Huntington.

[sticker]

I guess this fool never heard of Laos or Cambodia

[america-rules]

"Worse yet, Congress is spending trillions of dollars on weapons systems"

The professor needs a FACT checker !

[lady lawyer]

Not only that, but it's "free enterprise" in the form of exported Western degeneracy that's riling up the Islamic world against us and radicalizing some Muslims who would otherwise be sympathetic, or at least neutral, towards us.

[ilgipper]

Millions of people seem to equate greatness with military strength, proudly asserting that "America is the most powerful nation the Earth has ever seen."

I hope this guy is not a history profesor.

[muawiyah]

Actually the "next war" is playing out between America, it's "wannabees", and those who want nothing of the future.

In every nation on Earth there are "American wannabees". Sometimes they do everything they can to come here. Other times they do everything they can to grab a piece of the future right where they are (thinking of the fellows in India who kept the engineering universities open against all hope ~ finally they are beginning to get some work to do).

A whole big bunch of the folks who dislike the future are also Moslems. That's why it looks like a war between the West and militant Islam. Of course that begs the question of exactly why at this moment the French and Germans, and the UK leftists, have decided that the future has nothing in it for them.

Ultimately it will become clear about who is on which side in this conflict.

[KantianBurke]

It was in an article in the National Interest in 1989 that Francis Fukuyama boldly asked if we had reached "The End of History." His notion was that free-enterprise democracy had finally defeated both communism and fascism. There would be no more real arguments about the best way to organize society. That was decided. But now, since George W. Bush's election, the ideological/political battle has begun anew. This time, it's free-enterprise democracy vs. militarism, and so far militarism is winning.

This guy's an idiot. If he had even bothered to read Fukuyama, he'd know that he's way off base. Then again after reading the rest of his article one can only surmise what planet that schmuck is from.

[jolie560]

Whenever I read these words..."...tens of thousands..."...I think that the author has an agenda first and is fitting facts to support it. "tens of thousands"? Is that 20,000 thousand or 99,999 thousand? Big difference.

[John W]

"During my long plane ride to the Philippines, I read the Pentagon Papers."

Yeah,right.

[syriacus]

What's the alternative?

[PokeyJoe]

boy, is this guy going to get a rude awakening when the civil war starts in 2004 between urban dolts, and rural ranchers/famers.

[syriacus]

....Graham has provided consultation and presentations to executive groups at several corporations and institutions, including Lear Seigler, Jeffries Banknote, Toyota Motor Sales, Latham and Watkins Attorneys, Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, Western Automobile Leasing Association, COMEX Group (France), Educational Testing Service, TransAmerica Corporation, the Small Business Administration, Bell and Howell, Korea Investment and FinanceCorporation (Korea), the Foreign Service Institute (U.S. State Department), Port of Los Angeles, Kiwanis International, Honeywell Corporation, Dalian Institute of Technology (China), San Diego Chamber of Commerce, Esterline Company, Hyundai Motor America, Ford Motor Co., AT&T, Rotary International, Prudential Insurance Company, Young Presidents' Organization International University, Intel Corporation, the United States Trade Representative, Rockwell International, Allergan, the United States Institute of Peace, and Ho Chi Minh University of Economics (Vietnam).

[Helms]

It was in an article in the National Interest in 1989 that Francis Fukuyama boldly asked if we had reached "The End of History."

And into an expanded book as well. They say that Huntington's Clash of Civilizations might be the revised model and this is what this weenie is alluding to. What I don't see is the concern over Iran and proliferation of nukes.

[muawiyah]

With an agrarian population dropping into the low 1 millions, the "urban dolts" have them outnumbered 100 to 1.

Even if the ranchers won the war the burial detail would be miserable. Much easier to just stay at home breeding cows!

[playball0]

Graham is crackers.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Perhaps the next glacier ?

[RLK]

While part of this is correct, the militarism/military industrial complex business is condemned barnard. We have a small thinly spread military.