America's arrogance could be its undoing

Straits Times ^ | By SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY

[Dog Gone]

At least the left's stupid arguments are weak everywhere they are printed.

[JennysCool]

I'll bump to that!

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah. Pathetic, in fact.

[merrin]

The coalition of the willing is a fine phrase that promises consensual leadership. It implies, among other things, respect for weaker nations; loyalty to the UN; and transparent actions.

?!

[On the Road to Serfdom]

No other nation can spend US$400 billion (S$706 billion) on defence

The US does not spend money on defence. We spend it on defense.

[Beck_isright]

Why is it, the more I read in the papers, the more I barf on them than my birds poop on them. This is pathetic. Other than the WSJ and Washington Times, we're supposed to be peeing ourselves worrying about every round we fire. </rant off....

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[jwfiv]

I'm a little tired of this boring rap.

The reporter should ask, instead, if the arrogance of the Medieval Islamopoopheads will be their own undoing.

America is not being undone, but the world is being remade.

[Blue Collar Christian]

"The US does not spend money on defence."

But maybe we should spend some money on de fence, so as to keep Mexicans and the rest of Latin America from pooring in.

[vbmoneyspender]

But maybe we should spend some money on de fence, so as to keep Mexicans and the rest of Latin America from pooring in.

You mean like the Marine Jose Guiterriz who was killed at Nasiriyah over the weekend and came here from Guatamala. Or how about my wife who is from Peru or my brother-in-law who is serving as a corpsman in the Navy?

[John Valentine]

I've seen more substance in a Dog Log on the sidewalk than there is in this piece of crap.

[Wavyhill]

What part of "We're the baddest boys on the block and don't need your pansy-ass approval" don't you understand?

[driftless]

First rule of detecting a leftist rat: Anyone who quotes Chomsky is a fellow leftist idiot.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Or my wife, who's father's mother was a child of migrant Mexican farm laborers and father was an Irish immigrant, and her mother, now an American like your wife and brother-in-law, was a Japanese woman who married a carreer U.S. Airman.

Get a clue "How many people fit in a life boat before it sinks and everyone drowns?"

Many of my friends and relatives are of Latin American decent or from Latin American countries. That doesn't make it OK to have an open boarder and unchecked immigration. PUHLEEZE!

[MattAMiller]

The coalition of the willing is a fine phrase that promises consensual leadership. It implies, among other things, respect for weaker nations;

We are not the ones treating Congo as a colony. We are not the ones who told Eastern Europe to shut up and think like us.

loyalty to the UN;

No one owes fealty to us, we owe fealty to no one.

and transparent actions.

I'm left wondering what this one means exactly. What actions of ours are not transparent which should be?

[tiki]

My husband doesn't think people are this dumb. He has a lot more faith than I do.

[vbmoneyspender]

Why don't you think about what you are saying before shooting off your trap pal. Knuckleheads like you used to say the same things about the Germans, the Irish, the Italians, the Poles, etc., etc., etc. when they came over here as immigrants. And by the way, America ain't a lifeboat. The only people who think like that are people who view life here as a zero sum game, where if one person gains economically, that means someone else must be losing economically. Typically, people who think like that are called Democrats with a big D.

[Stentor]

You mean like the Marine Jose Guiterriz who was killed at Nasiriyah over the weekend and came here from Guatamala. Or how about my wife who is from Peru or my brother-in-law who is serving as a corpsman in the Navy?

This is verging on left wing lame. The man didn't say a word about controlled immigration.

[vbmoneyspender]

Really, he talked Latin Americans pouring over the border. Point out to me where the distinction was made between people who are here legally and illegally.

[On the Road to Serfdom]

Where is this straw man you are debating?