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Yeah, it is tough. But I'll tell ya, the people doing the complaining about Guantànamo incessantly protest at America's doing anything that is likely to defeat fascism and our enemies. This is of course blatant totalitarian-sympathizing, and it is either stupid or evil or both.
The proper attitude towards anything less than a democracy is to extinguish it. These complainers do not have the proper anti-tyrannical attitude and thus are suspect of being closet totalitarians themselves. Their view of it is tainted. The moral choice is to break oppression by any means, and those people are not capable of choosing the moral way. That is why I oppose them. They are bad and they are stupid, and I am neither.
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And ftr, I want the Taliban and al qaeda extinct and/or sterile too. I want to do it the right way though, and not make even MORE enemies while doing it. After 911, we had most of the world behind us. We fucked that up by attacking Iraq, which btw, took our eyes OFF of the Taliban and al qaeda, and allowed them to become even more strong, and now they are a bigger threat than ever. All because of our own stupidity (well, our leaders anyway). |
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"Even more enemies?" I'd advise not worrying about that, for the simple reason that it won't make any visible difference to us how much more annoyed our enemies get at us -- just for being us, all dynamic, successful, rich, inventive and generally just plain happier. We've got such a good thing going we can spread it around. They profess to think that'll kill off their culture. They don't yet know that cultures are a lot tougher than that. The only big cultural sea-change I expect is that tribal-only consciousness will fade and national consciousness will take its place, as it had to with us. There is also the point that our enemies are not growing more numerous. The well informed, those enjoying greater global connectivity than our active foes do, aren't getting killing mad at America for getting involved cleaning up some witches' brews in a couple parts of the Muslim world... which were giving trouble to other parts of the Muslim world. Quote:
No one in opposition to the Bush Administration's campaign against the fascistic antiglobalist abusers of women EVER came up with the scintilla of a strategy of how to win the GWOT better than Bush could. Not one single word of strategy or effort, nothing whatsoever to extend democracy into places that lacked it and suffered perennially. Clearly, these people have zero interest in democracy and don't want ever to have any. I oppose them, as any person of humanity would. They are wannabe tyrants, brainless wisdomless monsters. They are the Left. We certainly didn't take our eyes off the Taliban, though they did manage to find a hidey hole and regroup some. Are they any nearer to taking Afghanistan back than they were? I don't see them managing that, either. And continuing to kill al-Q men doesn't sound like ignoring them either, does it? There are people who would like you to believe what you wrote, sugarpop -- that America and globalism may be defeated, and poverty and oppression both preserved and increased. These people are of the Left, and they are the most racist, unenlightened bastards you ever saw under their surface appearance. I am not one of those people. The conservatives, like me, want the prosperity and the not-overweening government to be the global norm, and want it to be spread around.
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Of course it is. It's an anti-leftist, anti-fascist point of view. The two are one, as thoughtful students of both can tell you. It's all about the breaking of tyranny, to which action you object, DanaC. Perhaps you are morally bankrupt after all?
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So I'm a racist now? lol. Because I am of the left I am a racist unenlightened bastard?
I assure you my parentage was never in question. And I am morally bankrupt. But only in your moral currency which is valueless to me anyway:P
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People in whom "white liberal guilt" is absent can figure this out without being told. Only the mistakenly guiltridden, with their pro-fascist values, can mistake removing undemocracy and promoting genuine democracy for an oppression or tyranny. White liberal guilt is a fascist-loving way to be, and it's horribly cowardly too. I do not love fascism/communism, and thus I have no guilt, nor any patience with those who do. You're in chains! Strike them off! Our views of government are the human views of government. Most other modes are just aggrandized street-gang stuff -- exhibitions of what a highly motivated sociopath could achieve in the undemocratic Third World. Why do you suppose it is our government that works, while so many others seem all about abusing somebody or are dysfunctional and failing? Are we Americans so uniquely suited to republican democracy that it cannot work anywhere else on the globe? I don't believe so, and for two examples I name Japan and Germany -- two very divergent cultural structures. Yet how are they now? Where's the idea this cannot be done again coming from? Again, it is from that bastion of American antidemocracy, the Left.
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The history of the Left in power is one of man's inhumanity to man, and we can tot up the millions of mighty questionable deaths that happened. Nothing "progressive" there, I assure you. Where, then, is the not-bastardliness? The one thing I dislike about the Brits in general, and it is too bad, is their easy bigotry; it's more accepted there than here. They have no idea that showing it would raise my American hackles. We Americans feel embarrassed to discover ourselves harboring prejudices about out-groups. We've done it before -- Catholics, Irish, blacks, Jews -- and we find at the end of the day there's no benefit in it. This enlightenment has not yet dawned on most of the British population -- and the yobbos who actually give physical expression to such racist impulses aren't being left in the dungeons of society's scorn for doing it.
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Ok.
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UG was on a bit of a rampage yesterday it would seem. lol
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I think perhaps that's safer than him posting when he's been thinking.
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If I wanted to be funny, I'd say I'd never actually seen that, so don't really know what you mean.
![]() UG really believes in what he posts. I can't get upset with him when I remember that he really can't help being who he is. If he wasn't so pompus, we wouldn't get such great food tips from him, and I don't think he really means to be so rude. He just doesn't realize how badly he comes off sometimes...or at least that's what I tell myself. It's far better than being upset by the silly things he says/assumptions he makes sometimes.
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That's how I am, sober, Ali. I slay dragons. The dragons fucking hate that, and insist on being undemocrats, which are naturally enemies of mankind. Of course it would be so much better if they weren't undemocrats.
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There aren't any dragons here.
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