Posted on 01/19/2011 6:58:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Gerkhas and soccer hooligans are the only groups in tact worthy of governing England. Time is ticking.......
Great article by Steyn. Thanks for posting.
product of our heritage bump for later.........
He is one of our greatest thinkers. And writers.
The stock market never declines.
The stock market always comes back.
Your house is your biggest investment and will always increase in value.
Funny how we grow to accept such articles of faith without basis.
“there’s a difference between genial self-effacement and contempt for one’s own inheritance.”
Nail on the head - and it describes perfectly where the left has miseducated the last 2 generations of young people in this nation.
However, I believe there is a faithful remnant that will not “go gently into that good night”. I believe we will fight for this nation, for the principles on which it was founded. We may end up smaller, but those principles cannot be erased.
Colonel, USAFR
Definitely so. IMO, Steyn is a modern-day Buckley... with an edge, and without the stodginess.
Whoa. This article’s a heavy 7-course meal.
Gonna take a while to digest all of this one.
Incredibly well thought out and written article worthy of Thomas Paine. The challenge is to get it into our teens heads.
The Empire Ball Committee, led by presidents Richard Hilton and Jenny Unwin, has announced the word “empire” will be removed from all promotional material.
The way things are going in Britain, it would make more sense to remove the word “balls.”
LOL - but I'm crying too. Guess those best-and-brightest at Oxbridge never learned the British role in the abolition of slavery.
Considering that the UK is leading the West into the abyss of destruction with America following right behind it I really shouldn’t feel sorry for the chaps.
Mark hits it directly on the head. Indeed a hard course correction is in order, or "America" will be a thing of the past. Personally, I think that transition is entering the home stretch. I hope I'm wrong.
His content is Buckley. His humor and ability to turn a phrase I liken more to Chesterton :-)
Britain was a successful, dominant nation expressly because it was a fascist, expansionist empire. Like Rome, it benefited tremendously from the control, takings & imposed trade amongst its conquered lands.
So too the US; we learned well the lessons from Nazi Germany. That is, nothing quite serves up economic growth & stability like an organized military-industrial policy.
But now GB, the US, and Canada as well have seemingly rejected the policies of the past and are now simply resting on their laurels.
Riddle me this - how do bankrupt states provide the types of social benefits handed out like GB and the US? It's because these two countries still benefit from their vast asset holding & military strength to enforce the $dollar standard ie rentiers.
I know history is a little unpleasant. People either need to get over the fact that if one wishes to become/remain dominant, there are certain things one must do. You know, rule of the jungle and all that. China doesn't have these sentimental issues, thus they are poised to take over the world.
PING
I’m afraid I concur. I think the anglosphere has had it. Time to start learning Mandarin and Arabic.
Well worth the time. What a writer! Passion AND intelligence
Those would be for business and religious purposes. We'll need Spanish too for everyday interaction.
Our politicians have mortgaged our independence to China and nearly all of them cheerfully propose to take on more debt. I have admiration for Hu Jintao - he’s not stupid and though he may he be a Communist, he comes from a nation with a long entrepreneurial tradition and a history of investment and saving for the future. We should take a lesson from the Chinese in thrift and growth.
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