Why I have not been posting much today: I bought this book yesterday and was unable to put it down last night.
Posted on 05/25/2004 6:13:26 PM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 05/27/2004 8:56:51 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
John Kerry says America shouldn't cut and run. George Bush says America mustn't. But we don't have to retreat ignominiously from the war on terrorism and from our other international responsibilities and commitments; we can recuse ourselves. We can explain to the court of global public opinion that, because America possesses the largest economy, the widest network of business relationships, and the only effective military force on earth, we have too great a vested interest in world events to render fair and impartial judgment. On every issue of geopolitical adjudication, from 9/11 to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, America is a jury of cops and crime victims. A change in venire has already been called for by noisy street protestors, France and suchlike. Let's accede to the pre-emptory challenge and go home.
The benefits will be immediate. We can cut $300 billion from our defense budget. This will be almost enough to pay for the aging baby boomers' prescription drug benefits, which can now include Levitra, Botox and medicinal cannabis.
America will enjoy cleaner air and less traffic congestion as oil goes to $200 a barrel due to chaos in the Middle East. A U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East will cause chaos, of course. Then again, a U.S. intervention in the Middle East has caused chaos already. And, during those periods of history when the U.S. was neither intervening in nor withdrawing from the Middle East, there was . . . chaos. The situation is akin to the famous complaint women have against men: failure to acknowledge that not every problem can be fixed. Sometimes the best thing is just a little sympathy. America had everyone's sympathy after the World Trade towers were attacked. We can get that sympathy back if we limit our foreign policy objectives to whining.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Thanks. I haven't read that one.. yet. I'll put it on the must-get list.
* When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.I think that was originally Twain, though Twain (and Mencken) would definitely be PJ fans today.
Here's some early PJ stuff, and perhaps the most politically incorrect thing online today: Foreigners Around The World.
Yes, I picked my own ethnicity for the link on purpose. >:)
-Eric
Age and guile beat youth and a bad haircut every day of the week.
I went to the same HS as PJ (albeit long after he'd left) Please add me to the ping list.
Just brilliant.
Lighten up, Francis.
TheBigB does not drink or use drugs.
Speaking of using drugs...
Bump !
This is my first exposure to P.J. Very good article indeed.
Thanks for the ping.
D'oh! Yes, that does sound like something Twain would have said. Or Mencken, or Ambrose Bierce, for that matter.
Thanks so much for the link -- I laughed myself silly. Since my own ethnicity, the Irish, were not spared, I felt okay about that:)
I think Thompson lost his mind about 20 years ago, about the time he started target shooting and using dynamite around Aspen in the middle of the night. He grew brightest right before the cold waves of insanity extinguished his mind. argh.
I think Thompson lost his mind about 20 years ago, about the time he started target shooting and using dynamite around Aspen in the middle of the night. He grew brightest right before the cold waves of insanity extinguished his mind. argh.
Why I have not been posting much today: I bought this book yesterday and was unable to put it down last night.
Please add me to the list. Thanks.
And one of my favorites, from my page:
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
--P. J. O'Rourke
I read PARLIMENT OF WHORES years ago. I think I will get it out and re-read it. I remember I really enjoyed it.
While you're doing all this add'n, please include me. I hate to be left out.
Al
left = omitted, not "left" as in left wing
For class?
Add me Add me!!!!
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