Posted on 05/16/2009 7:03:22 PM PDT by trying17 (AKA DrGop0821)
You addressed your post to me, with a copy to altair. I hope you realize it was altair who wrote the above...
Thank you.
Ah, gotcha! Funny song!
FRiend, the northeast's reputation is not unjustified. Who was the last true conservative to be elected to a position of significant influence in that region?
Name five more.
Sure, true conservatives like you can be found up there, but the bulk of the northeastern GOP is squishy enough to guarantee liberal dominance.
P.S. Your point about the founders is a non sequitur. You can't support your assertion about the current condition of the northeast by citing examples more than two centuries old.
hehe! :^D
Yowsah!
Wow! I thought I was the only one who had read that book (when I was a kid). I wasn’t even sure that was the name. Thanks. I looked it up on Amazon and just bought the book for fifty cents. Too bad the movie is only available on VHS for $40.
I did. I was supporting your position.
Thanks! And you stated it much better than I ever could.
A state with a brutal dictatorship is "successful"? I've never heard that definition before.
President Bush campaigned on a platform of getting us out of foreign wars, not starting new ones. That's part of why I voted for him in 2000.
In case you hadn't noticed, something happened after Bush was elected.
And 9/11/01 changed everything.
Let's stay out of entangling foreign affairs. Just Say No.
So, as far as your concerned, 9/11 didn't change everything. I can respect the consistency. But I also firmly disagree with your position.
This is a typical position of Ron Paul and those who support him. He believes we should act based on 18th & 19th Century demographics and rules of engagement. What's lost is the fact how the World has progressed since then, and how this has impacted World affairs. Nations are no longer separated by oceans and continents. Nations who are in no real proximity of one another have the power today to severely impact another's safety and prosperity. 9/11 is a perfect example. And it didn't even stem from another "nation" per se; just a group of hate-filled bigots with the ingenuity to make it happen. And crawling into our shell, and removing ourselves from the World stage, is not going to make them go away.
Letters of Marque, disentangling oneself from World affairs simply doesn't work today. Yet it is the agenda of some (not many, but some) to apply Old World practicality to today's involved problems. Not a good idea, and not very safe...
We may "just say no", but will they?
At bottom, it should come down to one question: What is in the national interest?
We should all be able to agree on that.
Is it then possible that we might have national interests beyond our borders? That is the argument.
And, of course, we positively do. Vital interests of a security nature (e.g., enemies overseas). And vital interests of an economic nature (e.g., the free flow of oil at a market price).
How can one make a convincing argument that we don't?
One might as well ask why we have aircraft carriers? Are they not there to protect and enforce our national interests overseas?
You bring up the economic aspect while I dwelt solely on the security aspect of World relations. But both bring out the fact today’s World is a complex place, and while we, or any nation may wish to dwell in safety and harmony, that usually isn’t the way it is because there are those, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, who wish us harm; both securely and economically. Setting ourselves apart will impose self-afflicted damage to the nation, as well as not keeping us safe from harm as some may naively believe.
While Dr. Paul’s comment is indeed “the sort of facile comment you’d expect to hear from an America-hating left winger”, I don’t think he can fairly be called one.
You should be zotted, again, for not posting links to your claims (resources).
I can’t believe you really have a blog, or else your 11 year old child does your posting for you. Copy and paste? WTH is that? Learn to post links, or at least, learn to copy source and post that!
Curious. Why do you come back? Do you need a quarter to call nine waa-waa, or a wambualnce? Or do you just like the pain and humiliation?
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