I could give a tiddly about Rothbard and who agrees or disagrees with him. I asked you to look at #80 and I doubt that you read it and understood it.
If you knew anythng about Washington...George, that is...he would have asked you to take a step back and let your brain run faster than your mouth.
My point is, in general, that name-calling, and beating one's chest does not make for reasonable exchanges of points of view, and I'm not the only one who has noted that we are seeing too many FReepers who insert unrelated matter into, hopefully, an intelligent exchange of views.
Read #80 again, and maybe the point of this forum will take on its proper meaning.
We FReepers deserve to exchange views on the main subject, and in this thread, the main subject started out to be this: Are we really exchanging views or are we simply trying to act like armchair generals behind the anonymity of a handle?
I know enough about George Washinton to know that the balancing act between Jefferson Madison, and Hamilton Adams was a piece of work...
Britain and France...
We were a new country... weak, in every aspect... It took what???? 3 weeks to get across the Atlantic???? in those days.
Well we ain't weak anymore... The dollar standard, the western world, and for the most part modern civilization depends on us.
Now we can't turn back history.. We've made plenty of mistakes... But we don't need a nuclear exchange between religious fanatics in the Holy Land.... So we have to show balls here... Facts are facts, and those are the facts.