Thanks for the morality lecture, Ted.
The United States is the world's only super power. IMHO that means we do what we think is necessary to protect world peace, if these other two-bit countries had a clue how to protect the world they would be super powers too, but they're not.
we all can agree on SOME of these points, maybe not all...
interesting thread to compare re: torture...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1148695/posts
"if these other two-bit countries had a clue how to protect the world they would be super powers too, but they're not."
On of the greatest ironies in European hatred for America, the Superpower, is that they helped create the beast they so despise. Some of the worst tyrants in history were products of Europe...and because of their inabilities to deal with their own problems, they have come to America for help.
With every problem that arose in Europe, America only became stronger, as we had to continually deal with their incompetence. Unfortunatley, we've paid a high price in blood and treasure. But is also because of this that America has decided to not sit on the sidelines and let conditions worsen. We are a reminder to Europe of just how much of a failure they really are.
Well, that's the idea, isn't it? How else can you write yourself a blank check for the unlimited expansion of the federal government?
Kennedy, et al. know that. That is not the "issue." It's just another weapon to use against the Administration. Nothing more. If it helps America's enemies, so what. It's politics Rat style.
The proper response to the anti-American voicers of "world opinion" is to identify them as our ideological and political enemies. . .we must politically ignore them and intellectually discredit them, while proudly arguing for the superiority of Americanism.
I am flabbergasted that we limit this advise to fighting "world opinion." It is not just people "over there." Within hours of 9/11/01 the editors of Sacramento Bee opined that the attack was our fault, in part. We never try to "understand" the world's peoples. A few weeks later the publisher of the Bee was booed off a stage delivering the same message and denouncing the President and attorney general for being mean to accused terrorists.
The foreign enemy has learned how America will neither blame you nor destroy you when you have the support of America's homegrown enemy within. The North Vietnamese communists proved it and thanked the Fondas, Kerrys, and the American press.
Thanks for the morality lecture, Ted.
Better yet to make all the haters one with the universe--or at least with the molecules of glass their cities and towns were once made of.
--Boris
The problem is not the violent and irrational psychos throughout the world that hate us. It's the people in this country that pander to them for their own purposes (eg the swimmer) which only encourages them to continue the outrages and violences against us.
I am always pleased to read opinion pieces from the Ayn Rand Institute about the war on terror. These people are truly the heirs of her unapologetic defense of America. During her years of popularity, she was a very lonely voice in the intellectual community criticizing the currents of communism and socialism that pervaded our society. Now I find that her legacy persists in the willingness of the Ayn Rand Institute to take the America-haters among us head on, including the asinine "Libertarians" who would sell us all out in the name of "freedom".
If world opinion is horribly wrong and we act in conformance are we acting correctly or are we following illegal orders?
Twain could have added it is a prison for the resolute applied by the weak.
Twain could have added it is a prison for the resolute applied by the weak.
If I had the talent to write like that-that is exactly what I would write.