David Warren: U.S. No Longer Cares What Others Think (Payback is a…)

The Ottawa Citizen ^ | April 26, 2003 | David Warren

[judgeandjury]

U.S. No Longer Cares What Others Think

Ahh, shades of Teddy Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." Beautiful!

[mickie]

What great pictures.

Thank God for President Bush.

[nicmarlo]

Thank God for President Bush.

Amen! I almost think any picture of the President is good because you can see into his soul....he's real, he feels, he cares, much more than we probably know, much more than the left will ever give him credit for.

[Libertina]

The Kyoto Treaty was rejected
Not to worry... Seattle leftie politicians and the leftie Governor are passing as many pieces of this legislation to apply to Washington State as they can... If we don't stop them first. I may have to move away from this place. They have actually driven Boeing - a WASHINGTON company - to Chicago, and are aiming for others.

Paul Allen's company, Vulcan, which does a lot of development, has done such a great job of creating jobs and building in S. Lake Union area, that 2 socialist Seattle City Council members wrote a letter saying they felt "uncomfortable." I kid you not. Too many jobs were being created! Wa is fast vying for second most stupid state in the union, following CA whenever possible. We have had rat legislature for 30 years. And people keep voting them in. Seattle lefties also bought and put up a statue of Lenin in a Seattle (Freemont) town square... It's hard to know where to start to clean this place up!

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[Romulus]

I wonder if anyone here's familiar with the expression "a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind".

Probably not.

[MEG33]

Amen

[Axman4]

I kinda like the no frills, no nonsense, tell it like it is approach.
Please, it is AS it is; not LIKE it is.

[quidnunc]

Romulus wrote: I wonder if anyone here's familiar with the expression "a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind".

In the first place you're using this out of context.

Here is the whole sentence:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. "

A "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" does not mean that we must structure our policies so as to meet with the approval of foreign governmants — espercially when to do so would be detrimental to our own national interests.

The first duty of our federal government is to protect us Americans, not to cater to the whims and peeves of foreigners.

[Happy2BMe]

Really, really good post!

[sweetliberty]

Thank you, grammar police.

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Grammarian usually has little to contribute to a discussion and possesses few effective weapons. To compensate, he will point out minor errors in spelling and grammar. Because of Grammarian's obvious weakness most Warriors ignore him.

[Romulus]

I couldn't agree more.

[Happy2BMe]

[AmericanVictory]

Example: yesterday, when the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, cut a verbal Gordian knot, by stating very simply that the U.S. would not allow a theocratic regime to arise in Iraq. One might deduce that it wouldn't matter whether the thing were voted or not voted, before or behind a façade of "democracy"; or one might fail to deduce that. Either way, the thing itself is repugnant, and the U.S. will stop it happening.

Damn straight, and we're right too. We don't sacrifice lives to liberate a people in order to turn them over to another style of torturing tyranny, such as that of the Ayatollahs of Iran. There comes a time in the life of a people, in this case the Iraqi's, when their certain inalienble rights with which they were endowed by their Creator need to be recognized and their government structured to protect them.

[WaterDragon]

Neither the European Street, the Arab Street nor the U.N. Street will determine U.S. policy, from now on. It's about time the running dogs got kicked aside.

[blam]

"Don't Mess With Texas"

[Empireoftheatom48]

WE LEAD, THEY FOLLOW, OR THEY GET THE H*LL OUT OF THE WAY!

[Kadric]

I believe we have tried that and it just plainly doesn't work with some people. It will not work as one party doesn't respect human life.

[Kadric]

In the context as stated in the Declaration of Independence it would be. State the reasons for your actions. Which is what the Declaration of Independence did, served as notice of the actions to be take and why.

[Psycho_Bunny]