Posted on 11/26/2005 8:00:54 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
In general I agree.
However, Iraq is no more phony than a great many other countries: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, South Africa.
In much of the world, ethnic/linguistic groupings have little to do with where political boundaries are drawn.
Will enough Iraqis think of themselves as Iraqis before thinking of themselves as Sunnit, Shi'ites or Kurds?
Obviously not enough Yugoslavs thought of themselves as such rather than Serbs, Croats, etc.
Historically, the idea of Yugoslavia was formed as a way of grouping together enough of the peoples in the area to allow them to stand up to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, long before the USSR was a threat. Sort of the inverse of "divide and conquer."
Sounds like a lot of people I know...
Bismarck came up with the slogan "Deutschland Uber Alles", not as a way of asserting German superiority, but as a way to get Germans to think of themselves as Germans, and not Hessians, Bavarians, etc.
Quite right.
Quite an illuminating essay.
Thanks.
It is both those things (what the article says and what you say).
These whackjobs are true believers, unfortunately. That must be tackled head-on.
If Company A is able to reduce its costs, and thus its prices, by adopting a practice such as outsourcing, Company B is forced to follow suit or lose market share, unless it can find some other way to remain competitive.
I had the exact same conversation with a guy at work. It's amazing how often the "those people" phrase comes up -- then the quick non-sequiter into "it's all Bush's fault, anyway."
She is correct because the constant mantra from the NAACP is gimmme gimme gimmme. I can't do it so gimme gimme gimme.
"There's something wrong with these peoples' brains".....IMHO it is pure selfishness...by claiming others can't "handle " democracy relieves them of the moral obligation to extend the salvific branch of the Creator's freedoms to others less fortunate, all the while taking advantage of such for themselves...
Limousine liberalism rears its ugly head once again. "Those people need a dictator," not "We need a dictator." Liberals are all for a set of restrictive rules for a group of people to whom they feel superior (which is practically everyone) as long as those restrictive rules don't apply to the liberals. We've always known this about the Left. The frightening thing is just how restrictive they want those rules to be.
Yup. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
"Please. They're not stupid. They're evil."
Yes, and demented
What you say is reasonable. It's just that I think a fragmented nation like the former Yugoslavia is better than living under Tito. Democracy sometimes has some friction, disagreement or conflict, but a Communist government makes a country a dungeon and worse.
Of the two, I'd choose to live in the fragmented, factious scene.
Another racist liberal stereotype.
Guess another racist liberal stereotype about Trenton is that black people love Italian food, based on all those great Italian restaurants in the Chambersburg section of trention.
As people what was the difference in the fight for civil rights in the 50's versus the 60's. What were they fighting for. What came FIRST? Their children came first!
Fighting for good schools for their children was the goal in the 50's. I see it as an indicator that despite the hardships, black families were stronger in the 50's than they are post LBJ Great Society. And the people that stood in the doorways keeping black children out of good schools were Democrats.
In the 60's, only after that goal was making progress, did it switch to voting rights.
Now, Democrats still keep black children in bad schools, again keeping them in bad schools by denying them vouchers.
The only thing that has changed is where Democrats stand. In the 50's it was in the doorway of the good school to keep black children out and today they stand in the doorway of bad schools to keep black children in.
Liberals wouldn't put up with that for their own children, so do black children count only as 3/5ths of a liberal child?
One thing that is NOT in question, in their own nuanced way, liberals are oh so racist.
Concur that they are not like us right now, but peace and democracy is what any decent human being desires, so long term I am hopeful.
L
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