Posted on 06/01/2006 5:34:00 PM PDT by Calif Conservative
Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious authority
Yet woe be tide America if state and religion are even
mentioned in the same breath.
Liberals would be fun to torment if they weren't so dangerous.
If Bush really did sponsor terrorism then Mr. Roberts would be have been killed by the CIA or deported to, say, France (where he belongs)!
Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders.
It's not that our leaders are evil, nor that we are. It's just that any attempt to help people who don't want our help is ultimately doomed to failure. We can't assume that "of course, they want the freedoms we have" and then try to give them those freedoms at gunpoint. Oppressed peoples have to see our example and achieve it themselves if they want it...with our help if they ask. But even if, say, a couple million educated Iranians would love having the 101st Airborne drop into their backyards tomorrow, the tens of millions of backward peasants that strongly support the Mullahs make such a well-intentioned action foolish at best.
None of this means we can't play defense on the opponent's turf - including using ground forces where needed. It's just that we need to remember a lesson we seem to have forgotten after 9/11: that nation-building tends to be a very bad idea.
Who the hell is this moron?
Why?
Name them Roberts. Prove it. And if the number in Afghanistan is "unknown" then how do you know?
And murdered? I guess FDR "murdered" untold thousands of civilians in the bombing raids over Germany. Idiot.
Aside from whatever off-the-books mayhem they've been wreaking, there's that little matter about seizing our embassy and kidnapping our personnel.
North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half-century.
They send sappers to try to tunnel under the DMZ every now and then, but let's not quibble.
Iraq attacked Kuwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the U.S. ambassador.
I've often wondered if April Glaspie is still alive and available to the State Department, just so we could send her over to tell Ehud Olmert that the US would consider a massive IDF nuclear attack on Iran an internal Israeli matter.
Is this guy a Buchananite? Wasn't he once a conservative or am I thinking about someone else?
And the Islamic Terrorists... why their just the good guys?
My G*d!
It's people like this who seek the destruction of this country by their absolute appeasement and ignorance.
Thanks... I think!?!
Bet there's a liberal woman involved in this transformation.
How do people who write stuff like this expect to be taken seriously? It sounds like a left-wing diatribe.
Blind nut caught a squirrel.
Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and very fiscally conservative. He has been a good conservative until Bush was elected.I think he is basically an isolationist and therefore very much against the Iraq war and Bush. I have noticed his increasing virulent attacks against Bush.
You said MOONBAT?
I had to look him up..I thought this was a parody for a moment..He is off the rails, over the cliff.
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