Posted on 04/07/2008 7:48:33 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Can you spare a summary, please???
Our founding fathers would have thought this was light reading...lol
Diverse American Patriots cut the knees out from under our enemies.
Google and Yahoo helped prop them back up.
If the Supreme Court rules against the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights, It will look like 1860.
marking for later
Can we trade them our liberals for some of their hardest workers? I’d say it would balance itself out very nicely. They (Chinese) have overpopulation, we have liberals, ya catching my thrift? It would SOOO work out.
Um, not sure if this require a sarcasm tag, well, you decide.
Ping.
I predict that the countryside in Maine is going to look a lot like 19th century England, with neuvoux aristocrats with their posted and inaccessible lands, and a semi-slave class desperate for work from the “manor house.” As well as the custodial class which gives the shrinking middle class something to do for a living.
The sky is falling... the sky is falling... yawn...
Can't be, I read it right here on FR that if we traded with the Chinese they would become just like us!
At the time, no less an authority than Henry Kissinger warned that “the abrupt abandonment of the concept of national sovereignty” risked a world unmoored from any notion of international legal order.
“In the early 1990s, optimism was understandable. The collapse of the communist empire...”
That was the great deception of the 20th century which the West accepted in its unjustified pride of having “defeated” communism. The Iron Curtain came down. Big deal.
Communism as a phylosophy was not conquered — the West, because of its vibrant economy, was able to outspend the Soviet Union. We did not defeat the USSR on any battlefield, we merely impoverished it.
Communism merely changed its appearance into liberalism, political correctness, a desire for diversity, multiculturalism and a one-world-government. And it is killing us as a nation.
Notice however, that present day Russia is not of the same mind with these western notions. Its first concern is to preserve its national identity while we, in the US, seem to be ashamed of it i.e. the “blame America first” mentality.
“The world’s democracies need to begin thinking about how they can protect their interests and advance their principles in a world in which these are, once again, powerfully contested.”
Translated, democracies have to depend on countries like England, France and Denmark and politicians like Obama, Reid and Clinton to defend their freedoms.
Bend over, tuck your head between your knees and hold your ankles. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
outstanding comment on an in depth and very insightful article /s
Ping. Good article.
Blah, blah, blah. Representative government is overrated, democracy is too chaotic, autocracy is the new black, etc., etc., etc.
Mussolini said it all a century ago, with a lot more flair.
Except that both of the author’s pin-up girls, Russia and China, depend on the cash they make from selling to the American/European/Japanese markets. In Russia’s case, they only have one thing to sell, the carcasses of animals that died 65 million years ago.
If autocracies are so great, then why aren’t all these countries beating down the door to sell to the red-hot Zimbabwe and Cuba markets?
Not impressed.
Personally I think the core of Russia and China is fascism all over again and didn’t die with the end of WWII.
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