Posted on 04/19/2002 9:20:34 PM PDT by Pokey78
Nice try, but I caught you moving the pea between the shells.
Do I believe that Arabs are biologically inferior? Nope; that's racist clap-trap.
Do I believe that the prevailing culture of the Arab Middle East is inferior to the prevailing culture of the West? Damn straight.
Yes, but we have to deal with their culture as it exists now (degraded by causes you correctly identify).
Our role should be to usher them out of their feudal world into the 21st century, not by force as the neo-cons suggest, but by diplomacy and trade relations.
That would be preferable. Unfortunately, the people who rule most of the Arab world now are determined to prevent that, because their rice bowls would be broken if their people got some education and political sophistication. If they weren't attacking us directly, we could just wait them out until their control broke down; however, that is not the case.
However, one is to avoid being condemned or hated if possible...here
| 1469 | May 3, born in Florence the son of a jurist. |
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| 1494 | The Medici expelled from Florence. Machiavelli Appointed clerk to Adriani in the second chancery. |
| 1498 | Adriani becomes chancelor and Machiavelli succeeds him as second chancellor and secretary. |
| 1499 | Sent to Forli to negotiate the continuance of a loan to Catherine Sforza. |
| 1500 | Sent to France where he meets with Louis XII and the Cardinal of Rouen. |
| 1502 | Marries Marietta Corsini. Sent to Romagna as envoy to Cesare Borgia where he witnessed the events leading up to Borgia's murder. Machiavelli's political philosophy was highly influenced by his study of Cesare Borgia. |
| 1503 | January, returns to Florence. |
| 1504 | Second mission to France. |
| 1506 | December, submits a plan to reorganize the military to Pierre Soderini, Florence's gonfalonier, and it is accepted. |
| 1508 | Sent to Bolzano to the court of the Emporer Maximilian. |
| 1510 | Sent once more to France. |
| 1512 | The Medici returns with a Spanish army and Florence throws out Soderini and welcomes the Medici. Machiavelli dismissed from office and retires to San Casciano. |
| 1513 | Imprisoned after accused of participation in a conspiracy. Is tortured and then released upon Giovanni de Medici's election to the papacy. Returns to San Casciano and writes The Prince. |
| 1515 | Writes La Mandragola. |
| 1519 | Consulted by the Medici on a new constitution for Florence which he offers in his Discourses. |
| 1520 | Appearance of The Art of War and The Life of Castruccio Castracane. Commissioned to write the History of Florence. |
| 1526 | Clement VII employes Machiavelli first in inspecting the fortifications of Florence and then sending him to attend the historian Francesco Guicciardini. He meets Guicciardini in Bologna later in the year as well. |
| 1527 | June 20, dies in Florence. |
However, there can be no doubt that the material conditions for the existence of Jewry as an independent nation could be brought about only by the proletarian revolution. There is no such a thing on our planet as the idea that one has more claim to land than another.The establishment of a territorial base for Jewry in Palestine or any other country is conceivable only with the migrations of large human masses. Only a triumphant Socialism can take upon itself such tasks. It can be foreseen that it may take place either on the basis of a mutual understanding, or with the aid of a kind of international proletarian tribunal which should take up this question and solve it.
Leon Trotsky
On the Jewish Problem (1934)
fofl ...
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