Your concerns have been duly noted. And by the way,
Posted on 03/10/2005 3:36:52 AM PST by RobFromGa
Freedom may be on the march, but America is still vulnerable to attack.
Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:01 a.m.
There are two predominant journalistic memes since the Arab spring began. The first, from the left: What if Bush was right? This was most famously and appropriately grappled with on Comedy Central, when Democratic foreign-policy thinker Nancy Soderberg consoled Jon Stewart with the hopefully facetious, but either way revealing, advice to hang on, things can still turn bad with North Korea or Iran. The other, from the middle and the right: As I wrote in this space two years ago, the invasion of Iraq will likely give rise to a surge of democratic feeling that will inspire the entire Mideast. This is known as making it clear to one's fans and foes that you were on the right side of history.
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I'm sickened and enraged that people would think that despotism is anyone's natural destiny. This is not a belief that Ronald Reagan held; I recall how he heroically stated that it was in the blood of Eastern Europeans to be free, and how the liberals poured scorn on the notion, suggesting that they were satisfied with the stupor of socialist tyranny. These insidious fools on this thread, similar to Ted Kennedy and the Soviet Appeasement crowd in the 1980's, are suggesting that it is the natural destiny of other parts of the world to rot under despotic rule. They are just as wrong as the liberals were about the Czechs and Hungarians.
Regards, Ivan
LOL. He's just one of those constant naysayers who join in occasionally to take out their frustration of their miserable lives on innocent freepers.
As far as I'm concerned, Bush-bots can get lost too.
Ah, the light dawns. You tolerate despotism, because you are a petty little tyrant yourself, who believes that anyone who holds a contrary opinion should be banished.
Charming.
Ivan
Self-interest is the ultimate fertilizer for democracy. The right to personal property, to free speech, to security in their homes, effects, and papers are all powerful incentives to democratic reform. This is followed soon after by the rule of law, the enforcement of contracts, and the rise of a viable middle class.
As people, we dream. All of us. What I can't wait for is to see what happens to China once the emergence of a durable middle class is complete.
I had Rush on briefly and he commented about Russia, and about how the Soviets tried to parse out freedom gradually. Everyone has seen the result, the empire utterly collapsed. Once an oppressed people come into even incidental contact with freedom, and explosion occurs.
Iraq is the latest example, but others will follow in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and probably Iran. You can't parse out freedom.
You sound just like every tinpot dictator who ever held power. Only most of them had more sense than you seem to have.
That says it.
Thank you.
Your concerns have been duly noted. And by the way,
Cute, but it is not a rebuttal.
I'll bet you are a very nice lady and I would like you if I knew you.
You've been thoroughly rebutted. It's not Rob's or Peach's fault, that you insist on metaphorically running around in circles, yapping like a demented poodle.
Ivan
"Man has never devised a weapon he hasn't eventually used."
OMG, she sounds like a liberal Canadian arguing against missile defense and the ultimate "weaponization of space."
You might like me if you knew me, but I'd be one of the ugliest women you'd have ever met.
I'm actually a middle-aged married guy.
Hey!
Are you saying I write like a GIRL!!!!
Don't worry about it, actually. I thought Howlin was a guy for the longest time.
Sorry.
Your silly poodle cut is showing
And that statement is in aid of what? Cognitive dissonance on your part does not make a compelling reply.
Ivan
I honestly don't care if you reply or not. Your replies only further bolster the case that you're a petty, spiteful, unintelligent person, who thinks they can dictate who should be allowed to post here.
Ivan
You mean you've publicly stopped posting to me. It certainly didn't stop you from sending freepmail. Which, I might add, made me think you'd been drinking.
Indeed, he has sent similar missives to me.
Regards, Ivan
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