Posted on 09/09/2006 5:37:04 AM PDT by A. Pole
Pat calls Bush an ideologue?
Yup
Not to mention that Lenin was in power prior to the end of WWI.
There is still no history of democracies going to war against each other.
ok, they didn't end up RUNNING on a ticket together, but Lenora Fulani was about the first one Buchanan went running to in his race to dump his GOP bona fides ... and I dunno what you call her, but to me she's an avowed Marxist. Buchanan didn't seem to care.
She also endorsed Bloomberg, and he paid her back with a municipal bond for her youth program headquarters. He also tried to get non-partisan municipal elections passed for her.
their laugh(s) are the equivalent of "would you please repeat the question" ... gives them a pause to collect their thoughts for an answer ... a debating device, if you will.
Maybe sometimes it is a stall device...but I read it more as nervousness sublimating into laughter. Although I do not like Patsy, his laugh is actually (IMO) engaging; Her Heinous, however, has a laugh like fingernails on a blackboard.
Wow. I just flat-out love what you posted here in regards to Plato on leadership. Thanks.
One learns to expect reactionary ignorance from certain posters.
Uh, yeah, wow.
"German militarism" could not be "wiped out," dolt, unless one "wiped out" all the Germans.
The problem was in the settlement agreed to by "Mr. Democracy," Wilson.
And by the way, was Hitler elected?--democratically?
That's true.
GWB's phraseology is inadequate. It is NOT merely "democracy." It is also economic opportunity, which requires meaningful property legislation, as well as probability of material success, which requires stability of commercial law.
Looks like a long stay in Iraq, eh?
Actually, dirt, it is a Churchillian SPIN JOB.
Churchill was (inter alia) a complete failure in the military--because he was too busy being politically acute.
That cuteness cost 10 million lives in the Soviet Gulag.
Also somewhat (albeit with some important differences) as you point out in the case of Hamas coming to power in "Palestine," the election of Ahmadinejad has contributed to a sharpening of moral clarity.
Even had that election been fair Ahmadinejad might still have won since the sizable pro-Democracy, anti-Mullahtocracy movement within the country had unequivocally repudiated Khatami and all other fake "moderates" like him, refusing to continue electing such, refusing to continue providing the mullahs the false cover of a "democratic" opposition, which in fact was in their full control all along.
No.
Not necessarily. May not be enough people anywhere in the world that agree with a limited constitutional republic with inalienable individual rights.
Over the human history there were few democracies/republics one next to another so the examples are harder to come by. But when more of them existed they did to war with each other. Roman republic had no problems with attacking and conquering other republics. Democratic Athens attacked democratic Syracuse. Italian city states attacked one another etc ...
This false myth that democracies are so peaceful is inane, smarmy and politically correct.
When you need to go back to times prior to Jesus to find examples to support your case it must be a pretty weak case. Western Europe has been full of democracies for several generations without wars. The democracies of Asia do not go to war. The democracies of Latin America have no wars. Democracy has it's weaknesses but a tendency to go to war with each other is not one of them.
The claim was not limited to the time after Christ. And if it were then the city states of Italy were long after Christ. (BTW the basic concepts of politics and democracy were worked out in ancient Greece before Christ)
Looks like you have to limit your claim to exclude the evidence to the contrary even further. Very SCIENTIFIC method indeed.
Western Europe has been full of democracies for several generations without wars.
Yes, San Marino and Switzerland. Since that they did not border one with another they were not in position to fight war.
Along with being a supporter, Lenora Fulani was the co-chair of Pat's Presidential campaign. The fourth I believe, as I recall she resigned because she said Pat couldn't be trusted.
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