HARRY BROWNE: "When will we learn?"

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | September 12, 2001 | Harry Browne

[Texaggie79]

And for what?

Let's recognize another Nation shall we?.... KUWAIT!

And as Pres. And this. Bush would say "STRATEGERY"!

[xzins]

could you explain why they havn't been to war for hundreds of years? When did the last terrorist incident take place in, say, Zurich? Or Lucerne? Anywhere in Switzerland?

Because it wasn't their turn yet. Besides, they're so small that they're just mop up territory.

Innocent? No one's innocent and big fish eat little fish. Harry Browne's naivete, just revealed, disqualifies him from being President.

[That Poppins Woman]

Don't forget that the 1st half of the 20th century is replete with examples of what we did to Japan. One of our most glaring mistakes was sticking our nose in their war with Russia over the islands.

If you look at the history of American foreign policy with respect to Japan, its a wonder they didn't attack us long before 1941.

Do you think the current temporary occupant of the White House is warming up the hot seats for this generation's designated 'scapegoats'?

Interesting perspective. And if the American public was guided to vengeance upon the Arabic and Islamic peoples, just who would benefit from this? Why ... GW's ol' oil buddies. The same folks who benefitted from the gas gouging earlier.

Hmmmm ... an interesting pattern forms.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Harry Browne wouldn't know initiation of force if it fell from the sky and hit him on his pointy head.

[FreeReign]

LOL... we've been warning you for years.

You think this is a big f***ing joke DAnconia55! Thousands are dead and you laugh over what you precieve as a lesson not learned. I know somebody who lost his sister in the WTC. My brother scrambled for his life to get out of the WTC and you laugh and think it is a big joke.

[Uriel1975]

Let's recognize another Nation shall we?.... KUWAIT!

Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. Diplomatic "Recognition" of a country is simply a declaration that they exist. It no more commits us to that nation's defense than would our "recognition" of communist China commits us to China's defense if Russia were to (for example) invade that country.

When Iraq invaded Kuwait, there was no compelling national interest in preferring the government of one undemocratic dictatorship (the Kuwaiti monarchy) to that of another undemocratic dictatorship (Hussein's Ba'ath Party). Either dictatorship would have sold us Oil (Hussein's whole motivation was a cash-grab); and even if either dictatorship had decided to refuse us Oil... we have oil. Here. In the US.

There was no compelling justification for US empire-building in the Gulf.
And the events of the last few days are largely "blowback" from that Interventionist policy.

Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody contests. The Nation prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to War the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the Nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the Liberty, of Nations has been the victim.

So likewise a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. -- President George Washington's Farewell Address

[Cultural Jihad]

I know somebody who lost his sister in the WTC.

No doubt Harry Clowne and his quislings will be happy to direct your friend to a civil court for the loss of property, lost wages, and pain and suffering. It's all nobody's bidness, you see.

These quislings like to try to claim we deserved the attack because we don't follow their failed party's platform on foreign policy. More than likely, it was the L.P. moral-liberal's lauding of drugs, abortion, obscenity, blasphemy, pornography, prostitution, perversion, promiscuity, sodomy, and homosexuality which made these Islamists feel justified in their murder.

[A Navy Vet]

You're absolutely right. I already apologized on another thread.

[L.N. Smithee]

Are the penis metaphors really necessary? Sheesh!

[CWOJackson]

"And if the American public was guided to vengeance upon the Arabic and Islamic peoples, just who would benefit from this? Why ... GW's ol' oil buddies. The same folks who benefitted from the gas gouging earlier."

It's good to see that people like you and Browne will not let anyopportunity go by to try and bloister your pathetic political views. Even standing upon the bodies of thousands of our citizens to cry your hatred is not beneath you.

America is quickly learning who it's friends and enemies are...including those within our borders.

[L.N. Smithee]

More likely, its that a whole lot of folks' money, including the terrorists' financial backing, finds its home in the banks of Switzerland.

I can't believe we actually agree on something! Click here.

[Liberal Classic]

*ahem*

This is not a time for factionalism. Fighting among us is exactly what terrorists, like Bin Laden, want. They know that our freedoms are important to us, and so will attempt to use that fact to our advantage.

Cultural Jihad: Get off your high horse. Treat others with respect. I have extended more than one olive branch to you this week. Here I hand another.

DAnconia55: Do not make light of this tragedy, even if you expected it.

Conservative Till I Die: I will not FOAD, because I am your countryman. We must learn to live with each other.

That Poppins Woman: Of course, our foreign policy does not exist in a vacuum. The precipitous cause is the action of the hijackers, not our actions in Kosovo however flawed. This is revenge, it is not self defense.

All:

Please take some care. I do not like to see us fight. Let us not forget who the real enemy is here. He is not Patrick Buchanan, nor is he Harry Browne.

Do not allow your outrage at this attack, turn into animousity of your countrymen. This is exactly the goal of such an attack, to sow the seads of dissent.

[Liberal Classic]

These quislings like to try to claim we deserved the attack because we don't follow their failed party's platform on foreign policy. More than likely, it was the L.P. moral-liberal's lauding of drugs, abortion, obscenity, blasphemy, pornography, prostitution, perversion, promiscuity, sodomy, and homosexuality which made these Islamists feel justified in their murder.

This is close to being funny.

These terrorists did not murder thousands because of our wicked rock bands and girlie magazines. They are enacting what they see as revenge.

Can you not talk in a low, conversational tone?

[That Poppins Woman]

Oooo. I think I hurt a nerve with the "gas gouging" remark.

Tell us, CWOJackson ... were you one of the merchants who patriotically raised the gas prices to $5/gal yesterday?

Me thinks you protest too much!

[Texaggie79]

China is not our Ally.

You apparently did not go to the link.

[Cultural Jihad]

This is exactly the goal of such an attack, to sow the seads of dissent.

That's SOP with the ideologues. Sheesh. How many times do we hear the ideologues spouting off their nonsense about how everyone is conspiring to rob them of their rights, and how evil the U.S. government is, how they're all evil jack booted thugs, yada, yada, yada. We expect any minute to hear one of them claim the planes were sent in by the owners of the towers for the insurance money, or by the CIA in order to cause riot and confusion in order to invoke martial law. Let the ideologues renounce their moral-liberalism, and then the goals of the terrorists will have been thwarted.

[AlGone2001]

From time-to-time Harry comes out and reminds us of how big a fool he is.

Thanks Harry for using this opporunity to get face time. Now, shut up!

[That Poppins Woman]

More than likely, it was the L.P. moral-liberal's lauding of drugs, abortion, obscenity, blasphemy, pornography, prostitution, perversion, promiscuity, sodomy, and homosexuality which made these Islamists feel justified in their murder.

ROTFLMAO!

Oh yeh ... Osama is sitting in his little dirt bunker right now ... plotting new attacks on America because of the nasty libertarians!!!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

[AlGone2001]

From time-to-time Harry comes out and reminds us of how big a fool he is.

Thanks Harry for using this opporunity to get face time. Now, shut up!