Posted on 02/28/2006 8:46:11 PM PST by jb6
Edited on 02/28/2006 11:09:58 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
If we end up in a fight with the Muslim world in defense of our values, then we will have no choice but to prosecute the war with as much vigor as possible. The cartoonists are exercising one of the core values of western democracy and ought to be defended.
However, I'd rather not have a fight with the lot of them, if we can avoid it.
BTW where in NC are you from? I am in Morganton.
And unfortunately, getting older all the time.
Sigh.
lol....no. They were (and are) staunch anti-communists, advocates of free markets and low taxes ("trickle down" economics). Do you know of one Trotskyite/Leftist (radical or otherwise) who believes similarly? Didn't think so.
Always find it so intresting the Machos are so quick to forget it is Muslims who are doing most of the fighting and dying on OUR side in the War On Terror.
I have a singer-songwriter friend in Austin who has written a new song called: "Jesus was a Neo-con". I cringed when I first heard him perform it. The author of this piece seems to be talking about Christopher Hitchens.
That's definitely true. The Iraqi Army guys we worked with were pretty good guys (except for a few who were probably trying to infiltrate for to provide information to the Islamists). I've spent time in Qatar and Kuwait as well, both countries are firmly on our side.
Makes no difference, we could stamp out terror quite easily by making it monumentally detrimental to Muslim countries whenever their citizens engage in terror. Of anyone we have the tools.
Pooring millions into tough and deadly street by street warfare in hopes of isntalling democracy is a solution but it's neither the easiest, quickest, nor the cheapest solution (it may be the most moral solution).
What a way to define an organ of oppression and mass killing!! The writer lives in his own little world.
As for the Neo-cons? He is, of course, right about their Trotskyite connections. They are neither new nor Conservative, only very, very confused. See The Neocon Phenomenon.
William Flax
I feel like an idiot, because I honestly don't know what neoconservatism means. How is new conservatism different than the old conservatism?
I used to drill in little Washington with the 1/119th IN before it went away. Nice area.
I do believe Pres. Bush thinks that "freedom", defined as a representative democratic political system, was given to America by the Almighty, and that as president it's his duty to bring divinely inspired government to as much of the world as possible. He's on a mission from God.
That zeal to remake the world is a characteristic of the children of the sixties, of which the president is one. Idealism or hubris, it is surely dangerous, as we saw with communism.
Problem is the Muslims are 100% that dark side. :/
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
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Note; Little wonder because democracy is Mob Rule.. Socialism is merely a symptom of democracy, but democracy is the Social disease.... Socialism is all about Mob Rule.. as is Sharia Law.. Thats why Socialists and Islamists get along so famously.. Monarchy is also Mob Rule except with an abbrevated Mob..
The author jumped the shark right about here.
That response sounds particularly spot on given that the author's picture pegs him as a clone of a million other liberal know-it-alls from the "pot-is-cool" bygone days.
His "enlightened" views are about as substantive, too.
Maybe next time he'll enlighten us on how the label he gives himself, "liberal", as defined in his use, is unrelated to what that term means in an academic sense.
He joins a long list of those who seek to straighten out the less intelligent and educated masses, and in the end accomplishes little more than being annoying.
In foreign policy nonconservatives seem to think that the usa has a moral duty to use it's power (military) to spread Democratic ideals. paleocons feel that the military power should only be used to protect vital American interests. In domestic policy neocons feel big government is good if used wisely. Paleocons see government as a necessary evil that should only be used when all else fails.
I've always defined neoconservatives as domestic liberals who are not pu$$ies about foreign policy.
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