Posted on 04/07/2022 5:52:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
You got one thing wrong, the Russian speaking family is most threatened by other Russians, not their fellow Ukrainians. The picture below is of members of the pro-Russian militia in the Donbass. They are the people who started the fighting, and they and their Russian army friends are killing the Russian speaking citizens in Mariupol as you are reading this.
“Government leadership is a necessary evil”
That is a core leftists notion. Were Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln necessary evils or heroic men who made America a land of freedom and liberty?
The left agrees with you. Conservatives do not.
In your world I guess it was our fault in the USA that the 9/11 terrorists attacked us, killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
What outcome does Zelensky expect?
The inevitable is being delayed at the expense of innocent Ukrainians.
“How many of the blue areas on this map would YOU be interested in risking your life to defend?”
All of them, because they comprise my country. More than 50 years ago I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. The Constitution IS the United States, because, without it, the United States would not and could not exist.
I still hold true to that oath.
However, if a “blue” area attacked me and mine I would fight back with everything at my disposal.
Biden, Putin and Zelenskyy all need quick and complete “removal”.
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” - James Madison
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” - Thomas Paine
Those quotes are about government itself, not leadership. Government is a necessary evil, but that does not mean that heroic men can’t be in charge of governments. Government by its nature is corrupting of those in power so anyone who does good when in charge has a certain heroism.
We should have statues aplenty of Washington, Churchill, and in future years Zelensky.
Wordplay.
I did not say all government leaders are necessarily evil (though all men are fallen and corruptible). The fact that we need government leadership is a necessary evil.
As I said before, the founding fathers realized this and structured the government to account for this.
Nothing woke about this.
“Tyrell’s all-time dumbest article - and if so, it has triumphed over some pretty stiff competition.”
Decades ago he was a great guy—but the world has changed and he has not changed with it.
Guarding our own border from illegal invaders is not optional—it is essential, top priority—the rest of foreign policy is irrelevant is this is not done.
If it turns out that the Ukrainians can never win a war with Russia. If it turns out that Ukraine will be another Afghanistan where Russia will continue to rain death upon Ukraine until they themselves have experienced too much death, then the killing could go on for years or decades.
Stockman may be wrong, but his opinions are within the realm of reasonable discourse and are not quisling in the least.
Never read a single thing from “Q,” despite your stomping and whining.
I’ll be sure to ping you when Zelenski gets his a$$ smashed. Love watching you mumblers weep.
“Why are there no comparisons of Putin to Lincoln?”
As one of the few in the known world to have Lincoln in my “Top 5 worst Presidents list”, I appreciate your train of thought here. My forebears went through hell fighting, brother against brother, father against son, crushing hearts of mothers whose families were destroyed because they settled around the Cumberland Gap before state lines were firm. They had a little piece of land to survive off and a long history in the region - no slaves, no politics, but conscripted and threatened with death if they failed to fight. So many things not taught in schools anymore.
Proud of my hillbilly roots even if the family tree is uncomfortably straight…
How does one “quisling” a Soros/Schwab disciple?
Zelensky is a brave man, but he is also an authoritarian. No Churchill, IMO.
Renfrew: "So you agree with the leftists who want to tear down the Founding Fathers and our early presidents?"
That's funny! So tell us, Renfrew - when did you stop beating your wife?
;>)
Lincoln messed up big time in the days following Ft. Sumter when he decided to raise an army to invade the south rather than make a localized operation to punish South Carolina and retake the fort. In 20-20 hindsight, had he done that, the divisions within the southern states might have been cleverly exploited to avoid the war. But there were hotheads on both sides who didn't want that outcome.
Lincoln's first inaugural address just six weeks before Ft. Sumter outlined a clear and just path to peace. His second inaugural address, just six weeks before his assassination, outlined a clear and just reconstruction. The fact that neither could be realized by subsequent events that he could not foresee does NOT make him a despotic villain of even the same class as Vladimir Putin.
The inevitable is being delayed at the expense of innocent Ukrainians.
By your logic we should just invoke Sharia law and join the Caliphate. After all, why delay the inevitable?
And by your logic, there is no point in even supporting conservative ideas. After all isn't the "inevitable" just being delayed?
I like when Zelenskyy refused Biden’s offer of a plane ride to safety, asking instead for guns and ammo.
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