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World Should Give Thanks To America (Mark Steyn On American Exceptionalism Alert)
Orange County Register ^
| 11/18/2007
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 11/17/2007 9:40:53 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
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posted on
11/17/2007 12:02:12 PM PST
by
donna
(They hand off my culture & citizenship to criminals & then call me racist for objecting?)
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To: bajabaja
"educated...view"
I know my Brit in-laws get a lot of their info from Michael Moore (not to mention the Beeb). Their viewpoint is decidedly left of mine. Nice people, judging from my in-laws, not all foreigners are well-informed. They're as ignorant as many of us Yanks about what's going on in the world.
To: donna
I think you might enjoy Steyn's
America Alone. Believe me, if there's a fellow on the planet who is all over the immigration issue, it's Steyn.
To: goldstategop
Mark S...nails it once again.
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posted on
11/17/2007 12:58:10 PM PST
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: goldstategop
Fred for President. Mark Steyn for Fred’s Karl Rove.
26
posted on
11/17/2007 2:38:52 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(America: “the most benign hegemon in history.”—Mark Steyn)
To: Vision Thing
Mark Steyn mentions that America and the world would be in deep doo doo if America copied the europeans and scaled back its military. He also states that the europeans have prospered under Americas protection.Yes, it rankles that they deride us while counting on our sacrifice of our finest youths for their survival.
(By the way, I've had the same tagline for months. He must have recycled it, because it's in this column, too.)
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posted on
11/17/2007 2:54:21 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(America: “the most benign hegemon in history.”—Mark Steyn)
To: goldstategop; donna
Europeans, because they've been so inept at exercising it, no longer believe in national sovereignty, whereas it would never occur to Americans not to. One would have never believed Americans would ever give up their personal sovereignty, either, but that's long gone.
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posted on
11/17/2007 3:49:12 PM PST
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: goldstategop
Post modern Europe is a museum piece. There's storied history behind it but no real passion and no real lifeYes, to paraphase Barzini, "Europe is proud of its past. America is proud of its future." Of course, he said that before the leftwing 'rats seized contol of the cultural heights.
To: hinckley buzzard
...to paraphase Barzini, "Europe is proud of its past. America is proud of its future." Don't you just love Barzini? Thanks for mentioning him. I read both his book about Italy and the one about the U.S.
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posted on
11/17/2007 4:31:32 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(America: “the most benign hegemon in history.”—Mark Steyn)
To: goldstategop
American corporate titans sniff that they can go anywhere in the world for talent and labor.
American taxpayers foot the bill for that opportunity.
That's a "free trade" subsidy in action.
The problem is that these thugs are killing the goose that laid their golden nest eggs.
See tag line.
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:05:42 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(Duncan Hunter for President)
To: goldstategop; All
“I come as one who wishes you
to fulfill completely
your noble destiny
of service to the world.”
Those were the words of Pope John Paul upon his first visit to America.
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posted on
11/17/2007 8:43:06 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America: THE GREATEST FORCE for good in the world!)
To: CyberAnt
Splendid and truthfilled tagline you have there, CyberAnt.
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posted on
11/17/2007 10:26:27 PM PST
by
SierraWasp
(If Dems had brains they'd be Repubs. And when they learned to use 'em, they'd be CONSERVATIVES!!!)
To: donna
Someone is out of touch with what's going on around here.
Perhaps it is your scale which is out of touch.
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posted on
11/17/2007 10:29:45 PM PST
by
Hornitos
To: goldstategop
If America were to follow the Europeans and maintain only shriveled attenuated residual military capacity, the world would very quickly be nastier and bloodier, and far more unstable. It's not just Americans and Iraqis and Afghans who owe a debt of thanks to the U.S. soldier but all the Europeans grown plump and prosperous in a globalized economy guaranteed by the most benign hegemon in history.
No thanks to Ron Paul, who ought to be running for President of Liechtenstein's bierhaus council, not America.
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posted on
11/17/2007 10:32:50 PM PST
by
Hornitos
To: redhead
Some of my ancestors came from somewhere in Asia, probabl;y about 10,000 years ago. Some came from Western Europe a few hundred years ago. All the same, America really began in 1776.
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posted on
11/17/2007 10:41:11 PM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: Hornitos
Knock off the personal insults.
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posted on
11/17/2007 11:22:06 PM PST
by
donna
(ADHD - Absent Dad/Husband Disorder)
To: goldstategop
Mark Steyn: Among the greatest Americans ever to be born outside the USA.
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posted on
11/17/2007 11:24:31 PM PST
by
TChris
(Cartels (oil, diamonds, labor) are bad. Free-market competition is good.)
To: donna
Knock off the personal insults.
Not a personal insult, just an observation. Allow me clarity:
Perhaps it is your sense of scale which is out of touch.
There is no invasion happening. An invasion is one nation's incursion into another with the intent of conquering and plundering. These are overwhelmingly destitute people coming for work. Yes, there was one large march in the streets back in March, organized by George Soros, as protected by the 1st Amendment. Yes, there are two Border Patrol agents in prison, out of maybe 12,000, who were convicted of shooting two unarmed men in the backs as they were running into Mexico, but their convictions were meted out by Americans in an American court of law, not by Mexicans. The other 11,998 Border Patrol agents are not in prison, but are on the job. And yes, President Bush did call the general actions of Minutemen 'vigilantes' as if our national sovereignty depended on men sitting in lawn chairs.
Taken as a whole, your apparent contention that Americans no longer believe in national sovereignty is out of touch.
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posted on
11/18/2007 6:05:20 AM PST
by
Hornitos
To: SierraWasp
Thanks! But .. I can’t take credit for it - I heard Rush Limbaugh say it and it just struck a cord with me.
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posted on
11/18/2007 9:16:17 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America: THE GREATEST FORCE for good in the world!)
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