[wideawake]

Where do you make the connection that I find Goering a deep intellectual thinker?

You cited his facile self-justification as some kind of worthwhile contribution to the debate.

So said Karl Marx and the French revolutionaries, but I addressed that a little later.

Marx began with the assumption that all human endeavor is reducible to economic motives and the Revolutionaries began with the assumption that social inequalities of any kind are the result of malice.

Both those base assumptions are easily refuted by ten minutes observation of actual human interaction.

People can appeal to reason, but when their analysis crumbles immediately on empirical grounds we know they have made a logical misstep.

"community of nations" ????

Nations, like individuals, often have common goals and interests. A common goal of many nations is to avoid being overrun by maniacal Islamic terrorists, and they can certainly form a community of interest around that goal. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

Just know I have friends on the frontline, too, and I hope they come home safe.

Yet you feel comfortable undermining domestic confidence in their mission. That's not very conducive to their safety.

[JohnGalt]

I I appreciate the emotional connection but look at what you are writing: "undermining domestic confidence"

By what expressing my opinion? This is embarrassing material, no?

I suggest Mssr.Pipes ask his neoconservative friends why they continue to wholeheartedly support a failing immigration system that let the barbarians in the front door before he goes on espousing Genghis Kahn dogma as official foreign policy.