I know and love history, and it shall be remain the proper arbiter.
This ``nonsense," he says, reflects ``the difficulty intellectuals habitually have in distinguishing between the state of their minds and the state of the world." And it reflects what has been called ``the parochialism of the present," which Harries says is ``a condition resulting from a combination of ignorance of history and an egotistical insistence on exaggerating the importance of events that more or less directly involve oneself.
--- Owen Harries, editor emeritus of The National Interest quarterly, as quoted by George Will, Dec. 24, 2001
Hey Publius, let's talk about your little info for a second.
1) Hmm, Islamic militism rapidly spreading in nations like Syria, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia... hmm, sounds like Nazism.
2) Bush has a better view on the world than any other president in history. He immobilized a threat to the nation, eg Saddam Hussein, has forced Osama Bin Laden into exile in some remote cave in the Tora Bora Mountains, he has shut down any threat of U.S. interference with PA and Syria. He has shut down Libya's nuclear arsenal program, and is already at the negotiations table with China concerning North Korea. Why are the peace talks taking so long? Because they're planning the strategy of war against North Korea! And it will last approximately twenty minutes, enough for a quarter of the Chinese military to cross the border and for the N. Korean generals to say f- you Kim. As Kim is taken to some N. Korean bunker, eg. the state of the art one that was recently built, what do you think the nuclear-tipped bunker busters are for?
4) I know that Bush would have a hat sitting on his desk, that in the case of a nuclear bomb going off in a city, that he'd pull out names and tell the Islamic world, hey, we have a hat with every major arab city in it. I have pulled out two, I won't tell you what they are, but you have two hours to evacuate them! Then I'm going to eradicate them with nuclear bombs. Any country that interferes with this little plan of action will automatically be considered another enemy to this country and we shall do everything in our power to disrupt economic, government, military, etc. stability, from sabotage to military action. Oops, five minutes wasted. Make that an hour and fifty five minutes until I drop nuclear bombs on the cities I have pulled out.