St George and the Dragon
Posted on 10/13/2001 8:34:37 AM PDT by annalex
"Fifty Years of Appeasement..."
It was gratifying to see Dr. Peikoff take a consistent libertarian position on O'Reilly's program (guest-hosted by Kasich) yesterday. These are two of Peikoff's articles on the same subject.
The previous articles in the series were
Defense of Liberty
The Contours of Victory
Let me know if the new single-bump system doesn't work.
St George and the Dragon
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Bookmarked & BUMPED.
I also think he misunderstands the ability of the government of Afghanistan to control bin Laden, because the situation is quite apparently the reverse; i.e., Bin Laden influences the Taleban more than they do him. Breeding hate can produce a fearful master.
No, it isn't. My understanding is that you don't "sign up" for the group lists. You just check them via a search "to:libertarians". I maintain a list of my own for these Pursuit of Liberty/Defense of Liberty series, and I bump people individually; among them I bump {libertarians}. I used to put {libertarians} in braces, but that practice is not supported by the new software. When I did the bump (with the icon) the software forced me to exclude {libertarians} and "ll&poh", apparently, becasue of the unusual characters. It also silently discarded all the dearly departed (deported) Freepers. A minute later (#3) it occurred to me to try "libertarians" without the braces and it worked.
If ll&poh still exists under a different name, and wants to stay on the list, let him contact me. "ll&poh" screen name no longer exists.
I also think that after the hostilities stop, we will have to install some occupational force there and oversee a transition toward a peaceful and representative government in every country involved. Although the concrete details will be different, the West will have to re-learn how to be a colonial empire. All this was discussed at some length in the previous article: The Contours of Victory.
Unfortunately Piekoff can't seem to make a coherent point here. He doesn't explain how the "West" came to own the oil in Arab countries. He rails against collectivism but had the audacity to talk about the "West's" ownership in oil.
Then he jumps from talking about the bad Arab dictators to talking about the Ayatollah in Iran some undisclosed number of years after the oil rights were ceded.
He's not doing a very good job. He's necessarily having to ignore whole portions of history that doesn't suit his purpose. Lies of omission.
We defeated Japan and rules the nation under military law fow only a few years. General McArthur ruled Japan with an iron had. He in effect dictated their constitution.
Hirohito was made to plege aliegence to General McArthur. The people were forced to look at him bowing down to McArthur. We took a waring nation and made it a peaceful nation in a few short years. The effects have lasted 50 years.
It took us just 3 years to change Japanese society after the war. We can do it again.
You are talking about 1-1.5 BILLION people scattered over 1/3 the land mass of the planet with another 2.5 BILLION people, armed with nuclear weapons, who won't be enamoured with the idea.
Fat chance.
Sorry, I meant to say:
Japan is 90 million people in an area the size of California.
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