Posted on 08/25/2007 1:59:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
” It is a cultural problem that is clearly deeply rooted. They appear incapable of governing themselves.’
The problem’s roots needn’t go back more that several generations.
I lived in Canada during part of the Cold War. We were friends with people who had managed to get out from behind the Iron Curtain and leave Hungary for Canada.
Our Hungarian friends, in turn, had friends who had voluntarily gone back to Hungary, back to communism. Can you imagine that?
The returned Hungarians had found living in a free society, with the possiblity of losing one’s job, was just too frightening. They preferred having no freedom, including the freedom to fail.
Since Hungary had been communist for only about thirty years, their angst could only have gone back that far. Apparently, it doesn’t take much. Imagine how difficult it must be for Russians.
I agree that shouldn’t take more than several generations but no one today is willing to work at it that long. Russia is working its way back to its former self after less than one generation and we are not willing to force an alternative culture on Iraq over a long enough period to change it there.
Agreed. Iraq could easily be a despotic Islamic state in ten years.
Go Johnnie, go!
well, how’s that. He cites wikipedia as an authority and destroys your argument by picking on your “html skills.” As a bystander, I sure and convinced.
“and convinced” should read “am convinced.”
Imagine how difficult it must be for Iraqis, after thirty years of Saddam totalitarianism.
Oh--we're not supposed to ask that are we..."Send those lousy Iraqis a message--they better stand up for themselves --start running their own government or we're outa there! They're just taking advantage of us!"
That's better.
Yes, it's a terrible thing, but I just have one question--Where'd all those magnificent Marines come from? Is it possible that "parenting coaches" and the like are a miniscule epiphenomenon of the metrosexual sliver?
I think Saddam can be compared to Marshall Tito in that regard. Tito succeeded chiefly in keeping ethnic groups from slaughtering each other by enslaving them so the Soviets wouldn’t.
Get rid of Tito/Saddam and internecine warfare breaks out.
Comparing Iraq to Hungary overlooks Iraq’s internal tribalism, while tainting Hungary with a viciousness they do not have.
I work in a kid heavy environment. Usually it is around mostly toddlers. The other day a parent had their toddler throwing rocks around inside. She grabbed the child and was trying to get him to pickup the rocks. Sure he picked them up and then threw them again!! She then left with the child in her arms. A few minutes later she returned with the child in her arms and wanted me to explain why throwing rocks inside was bad?! I have story, after story like this one to parents expecting me to explain the concept of stealing to their 4 yr. old. But, don’t say or do anything to infringe on their fragile self-esteem!
Hello?
1. I am not the parent.
2. Take the responsibility to raise your child, it is not mine, the teachers, nor the governments.
3. You took away the teachers ability to effectively discipline your child and yet you expect everyone else to do the job you refuse to do. (Note: you in referring to the article, not hinckley buzzard)
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