What if? (Bush is not nuts?)

Politiken ^ | February 3rd, 2008 | Mogens Rukov

[Eurotwit]

This article appeared in the Danish equivalent to the NY Times. Except, off course, these lads being Europeans, they are even more nuts, even more liberal, even more self-hating etc. Perhaps the article is ment as a joke on us right wingers? I have no idea. It certainly made for an interesting read in the main liberal paper in Denmark.

(Translation courtesy of the gates of Vienna:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/02/now-what-if.html#readfurther

Cheers.

[3AngelaD]

What if the only way the war can be won for Christian Europe is by prohibiting Islam and sending all Muslims back to Islamic countries?

Works for me.

[RC2]

Are these people trying to drive themselves nuts or are they already nuts? They must not have anything better to do.

[6SJ7]

Concepts are our prisons, our direction, and our freedom. They are our dreams and our nightmares.

Turning a fine phrase like that requires drugs, and lot of them.

[Sax]

What if I huffed paint and then wrote an article.

[steel_resolve]

Shall tolerance make room for Allah and Mohammed?

That is not the question. The question is shall Allah and Mohammed make room for tolerance?

[Steely Tom]

I confess I’ve been having existential thoughts too, sort of like these.

Maybe America is not destined to remain a culture based on the lessons and thinking of European culture. Our body politic certainly seems to want to move to the left.

Democracies make mistakes. Democracy is not infallable.

The important thing is that the multitude of feedback loops that exist in our society, and which result from the free flow of information and the level playing field for all who desire to contribute to the discussion, that these feedback loops will push society back from the consequences of a “mistake of democracy.”

The left, of course, is bent on implementing it’s vision. So is the right; that’s the nature of politics. The problem is that the left’s vision includes a great deal of tinkering with those feedback loops. I don’t think the right tries to do this (probably those on the left would say that the rise of talk radio represents a case of “tinkering with the feedback loops,” an argument that I personally think is sophistry, but you know they’d make it).

Unfortunately, without a period of left-wing control and left-wing ascendency, the rank and file of society won’t see the consequences of the wide-scale disorder and chaos that the left will unleash. They’ve forgotten how things were under Carter. Heck, they’ve forgotten how things were under Clinton. Those lessons have to be constantly reinforced; new voters are joining the ranks every year, and they have no memory of those times.

[Red Badger]

“What if” is for children, old people and liberals.........

[ConservaTexan]

What if I had a column to fill and absolutely nothing intelligent to say?

[SF Republican]

What if it is only a temporary fiasco, what if it becomes a success? - I heard a WWII veteran on NPR the other night and he said when the US was in Europe headed to Berlin, the soldiers thought everything that the higher ups could do wrong, they did do wrong, he said it was the worst run war he ever could imagine; now we look upon it as one of the greatest/most heroic American ventures of all time.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

My unstudied comment to the astute members of the Free Republic is to get a copy of a good history text and read up on the dawn, maturity, and disintegration of some of the cultures and civilizations which have preceded the West (Toynbee’s A Study of History comes to mind. There are others.). And by the West I mean Europe and North America. Then figure out the best place to bury your guns and ammo (and rations).

[Larry Lucido]

What this article lacks in readability, it makes up for in length.

[tumblindice]

“In those days you where taken as a big idiot if you said anything else except that Reagan was a big idiot.”

We were, how you say, making the spoofing and frivolity, on the front end and not really.

[rwa265]

The Danish are very nervous about the Muslim community in Denmark. I see this article as saying that maybe President Bush has it right in saying we are in a global war against terror.

[Eurotwit]

It dies read slightly better in Danish. Though, I thought it raised some interesting questions. Particularly in a European context.

And, if you are not vigilant, it will also be valid questions in an American context. God, forbid!

[driftless2]

The problem I have with many people who hate Bush and or conservatives is their inability to focus. They start off with their smarmy, smug presumption that all conservatives are stupid and are unwilling to discuss it further. I have a daughter-in-law who hates Bush and hated Reagan i.e. "Reagan ran the economy into the ground... Bush is stupid". When you ask them how a really stupid person could graduate from high school much less Yale and Harvard, they just keep repeating "well, I think he's stupid because he sounds stupid". In short their "facts" are all screwed up, and they have nothing to argue with.

From reading articles written by European "experts" it becomes readily apparent that most of them have no inkling of the predicament their countries are in vis a vis Islamic fascism. They have been taught to believe that the West created all the problems in the world, especially the Mideast, and only talking and giving in will solve their problems. In reality those tactics only delay the day when the crocodile eats them.

[Eurotwit]

But, isn’t this liberal fellow at least starting to ask himself questions?

Quite profound questions at that.

Immigrants as an occupations force? Advocating airstrikes at immigrant communities?

Crazy questions?

[NRA2BFree]

What if I huffed paint and then wrote an article

You'd make more sense than this article did. ;o)

[Eurotwit]

Oh, come on... I don’t post very often anymore. The second half of the article perhaps makes some sense?

[Tucker39]

“What this article lacks in readability, it makes up for in length.”

Larry......that was a hillarious line! An absolute, dry-humor kneeslapper worthy of Mark Twain. Thanks!

Here is a profound statement. Circuitous, but right on the money in regard to communication:

“I know you believe you understand what you think I said; but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard, is not what I meant.”