tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post4348937614695211817..comments2024-01-06T09:14:53.340-08:00Comments on Dashiell: The glass is one third empty.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-16497122659882281352008-01-31T04:27:00.000-08:002008-01-31T04:27:00.000-08:00We must remember that Bush is not the only nor the...We must remember that Bush is not the only nor the first American president to violate Libertarian principles. Abraham Lincoln centralized executive power to win the Civil War. The Monroe Doctrine was an unjustified intervention in the internal affairs of other American nations. Manifest Destiny was a ruthless persecution of the American Indians. <I>When we repudiate Bush, we are repudiating over a century of our history.</I> Warmongering became respectable through the Mexican War and the Spanish American war. We <B>are</B> the imperialists that the socialist nations have often accused us of being. Wake up America, read your history, learn who we, as a nation, really are.Dickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15144992386162859730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-63736252721630501292007-07-23T13:52:00.000-07:002007-07-23T13:52:00.000-07:00Re: Dubai. Fiddler's point is well taken. Selling ...Re: Dubai. Fiddler's point is well taken. Selling off the country to the highest bidder is what I'm referring to, not some idea that Arabs are inherently untrustworthy. Then there's the breathtaking assumption that you can rattle on about the Islamic threat ad nauseum and at the same time try to pull the Dubai deal off without batting an eye. Notwithstanding the right-wing protest at the affair, it demonstrates that the rhetoric around the so-called "war on terror" is a thorough falsehood.Chris Dashiellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14502735579422890467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-220937766478143692007-07-23T12:12:00.000-07:002007-07-23T12:12:00.000-07:00A British journalist recently went right into the ...A British journalist recently went right into the lion's den and gives some fascinating insights into the minds of these people:<BR/><BR/>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2766040.ece<BR/><BR/>(Apologies if you've read that already.)<BR/><BR/>Just a small nit I have to pick:<BR/>"Trying to sell our ports to Dubai" is IMO a populist, xenophobic, even demagogic way to frame that affair. I understand that, naturally enough, the commercial aspects of American ports are managed by commercial private companies, and that this (and only this) business part of some ports was to be sold to a Dubai company (state-controlled, but so what). The concerns about the sale one could hear trumpeted about were about port <B>security</B> however, which is, and would have continued to be, in American hands.<BR/><BR/>I, and I suspect a goodly part of my fellow Old Europeans were rather bewildered then that liberal Americans would suddenly join the chorus of how Arabs are, by virtue of being, well, Arabs, a risk to national, err, Homeland security.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770916.post-2896138505165272002007-07-23T09:54:00.000-07:002007-07-23T09:54:00.000-07:00A truly great post. Thank you.A truly great post. Thank you.pygalgiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423302866723206260noreply@blogger.com