Posted on 02/18/2011 5:04:59 PM PST by ashukla
I then asked Carvalho to name the countries working with the terrorists worldwide for the destruction of the United States. He replied as follows: "Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Russia, and especially China are the main ones. In Latin America, Venezuela is the most obvious example, but Venezuela would be nothing without the support it gets from all the governments of the Sao Paulo Forum, the leader of which is Brazil."
Burke, not a Founder, but would have been had he been an American.
“The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may soon be turned into complaints.”
Eye opening. Thanks for posting.
As a thought along those lines, consider the overwhelming majority of movies which take place in the 'future' have presented us with a post-apocalyptic landscape of ruin and moral degredation. When is the last time you saw such a film, showing a future which was optimistic and the result of progress and not decay?
Perhaps those of us who are of a 'survivalist' bent should look toward fighting for a better future rather than just surviving a decaying one.
Can you provide a quote from one of them that resembles this assertion? A direct reference, at least?
How about the French Revolution, and its subsequent descent into a living hell on earth. Is that a bad enough result for you?
More and more, the nation of Brazil keeps popping up as an opponent of the U.S.A.
Wonder what got their knickers in a twist? All the fascist Germans who fled there after WWII?
I hope we have enough intelligent, patriotic people in this country that are capable of doing the same.
I will re-read it...I may not have received the correct context.
Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of coffee and sugar, the second-largest soybean producer and the third-largest exporter of corn. Argentina is the second-largest corn shipper and the third-largest grower of soybeans.
Investing in Adecoagro is “a way to play the potential global shortage of food, especially in emerging markets,” Francis Gaskins, president of Marina del Rey, California-based IPOdesktop.com, said in a note today.
Higher commodity prices are leading to riots, demonstrations and political instability, Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economics professor who predicted the financial crisis, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this week.
Placemark.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
John Adams
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Exactly as Burke predicted in post 17. Well before it got to the Terror stage.
You have any idea of the sealift capacity needed to move an invasion army of sufficient size to conquer a continent? The US and Britain were challenged to put one together for D-Day, and that was from a secure base only a few miles from the target. The Chinese would have to cross thousands of miles of open water.
While it is theoretically possible US ground forces could be tied up in a civil war, the US Navy is more or less by definition unable to participate effectively in such a war, and might have something to say about whether a Chinese invasion fleet could make it here.
How about this one?
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”--John Adams
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Virtue is given by God to those remaining in faith in Christ and growing by His work in them.
Freedom without authority is anarchy and authority without freedom is tyranny.
Moral degeneracy leads to loss of freedom and may promote tyranny, but virtue encourages humility, grace, love, and justice.
Good article, although IMHO, attributing a use of words to George Soros and Karl Popper in the same sentence is an insult to Popper and too generous to Soros.
Don’t underestimate the actual logistics required for maneuver warfare in limited warfare is different than that in total war.
Should a foreign force begin with assessing their resources to project an invading force, then mold the environment upon which the advance to lessen their opposition, they may well be poised to invade a foreign shore.
We probably won’t see something like Normandy or Tarawa, but might well observe an invasion of Mexican illegals, coupled with well controlled columns similar to the US advance into Baghdad.
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