Posted on 06/18/2005 3:59:51 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
I thought I was a right wing liberal.
and that definition is simple:
They get a fair trial before we hang 'em.
Not wanting homosexuality promoted in the schools and endorsed and approved of by the gov't is hardly coercing morality. Nor is protecting the life of the unborn. The coercing is on the other side. The left wants the public forced to formally approve of homosexuality and they want doctors and pharmacists forced to perform abortions or at least provide the drugs to induce abortions. They also want children introduced to perverse sexual behaviors and forced to "respect" them by the government.
Ah yes, the bad old good old days! Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind is still a great read....but Schlesinger was never a centrist in my book. That commie spoke at my graduation and almost ruined an otherwise fine day.
Anarchist babble. I'll stick with Brent Bozell, thanks.
Two rights make a left.
Whoo boy! Self-centered AND long winded!
"Black Power"? What exactly is the "right-wing" appeal there? Isn't that movement the one where those Olympic athletes raised a Communist-style clenched-fist salute while the National Anthem was playing?
So what? we should have let the commies win? This is just more of the isolationist crap that spews frequently from the mouth of such luminaries as Patrick J. Buchanan.
Buchanan believes we should shut down this country and draw into ourselves. This policy is shown to be foolish whenever it is attempted. Active engagement in the world is the only safe path for America.
What are you talking about?
and draw into ourselves. This policy is shown to be foolish whenever it is attempted.
If you mean mind our own business, it was mostly our policy throughout the 19th century, and it worked pretty well for us. Would it have been foolish in WWI, when our intervention laid the groundwork for Nazi Germany?
If we had "minded our own business" we would either be a vassal nation for Germans or communists, or be a very weak, friendless nation just waiting to see who was going to snatch us up. Isolationism is bad policy.
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And there's nothing that would have made us "weak". We could still have had a world-class military.
Economic Isolationism is VERY BAD, while political isolationism is not necessarily a bad thing.
Pat Buchannan advocates both, and that is why I do not a gree with him.
Throughout the 19th century, we practiced economic interaction with the world while practicing political isolationism; it worked then and it can work now.
The lone super power putting its head in the sand and ignoring evil in a world that is increasingly interdependent in every way imaginable, is not a wise long term strategy, either for the welfare of the planet or of this nation. Dorothy can't go back to Kansas again. It is no longer there to go back to. But then libertarians were never ranked very high on the practicality meter. It was and is, all cattle, no hat.
Have you read "A Politically-Incorrect Guide To American History" by libertarian/paleoconservative Dr. Thomas Woods?
He argues that every conflict the US has gotten involved in since the Revolutionary War (Save the Mexican-American War) was unwarranted:
1. The War of 1812 was a rather pointless war started by the young "War Hawks" (that is where the term came from) in Congress who wanted to prove the US was a big player on the world stage.
2. The Civil War was fought to secure Lincoln's tax base.
3. The US started the Spanish-American war
4. We had no "dog in tyhe fight" in WWI and the Kaiser's Germany wasn't that bad.
5. In WWII we should have let the Nazis and the Communists wipe each other out and should have only gone after the Japanese (who attacked us). Pat Buchannan has taken this position as well. This may very well have prevented the Cold War.
6. The Korean War happened because Truman's SecState baited Stalin to go South by stating that we would not defend the Peninsula.
you mean all hat, no cattle.
Ya, that too. It is tough being a left coaster affecting Texas talk.
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