In Reply to: Re: Carol, looks like you handled it fairly well, just one thing... (NT) posted by OldtimerToo on June 28, 2004 at 13:41:59:
I have to agree here with Carol and Alan.
I read the Mo' Letters; as we all did.
I also read Das Kapital, the Communist Manifesto, and Mao's Little Red Book. I also read 1984 and Brave New World, and all the other "futurist" books. So what? They're all works of fiction.
At least capitalism does account for man's nature, and produces what Churchill called "the worst system in the world, except for all of the other systems". A representative democracy, or a fascimile thereof, offers more freedoms than any system yet, except for Israel under the judges, after which they just HAD to have a king; "like everybody else"!
Communism even in its purest sense is parasitic. Only the Maoist, or Luz Sendero (Shining Path), variety has any appeal worldwide, now. It still appeals to the "have-nots", because it justifies killing the "haves" to obtain what they have. The James chapter 3 "reason for war" does apply to everybody.
At least the Leninists were honest about what it took to overthrow the so-called "bougeois". The so-called "socialists" are merely "wussie wannabe-commies". The claimed to want the changes the whole world needs, but wouldn't admit what it would take to get it: massive bloodshed, complete loss of political and ideological freedoms, and the necessity of continous Maoistic counter-revolutions.
Very similar to the current "spiritual politics" of TF under Maria Zerby and Peter Amsterdam--very little essential difference.
Capitalism? That's just a communist "witch-word". Communist countries used capital; yens, rubles, etc. They just didn't compete well, nor could they, on the international open market, and help to drive prices down, and drive the quality of goods and the delivery of services up.
Read The Wealth of Nations. Read Keyesian economics. And THINK!
Also, remember that NONE of the Arab nations made ANY effort to take in the Palestinians--their role as jihadic cannon-fodder was too valuable! It has been better for the jihadic cause to not help them at all, except for a little tokenism to keep them riled up and hopeful.
How would any other democracy respond to sucide/homicide bomb attacks? What else could Israel do?
By the way, if anyone is interested, it's easy to do a Goggle search, and actually READ Suraas 5, 9, 11, etc., out of the Quran. They say some horrible things about purposely deceving and killing your enemies, tach that the world is eventually destined to be ruled as a world-wide caliphate, under Allah, caliphs and Imams--you disagree, YOU DIE!!! Please read it for yourselves, but please don't try to serve me any more PAP about socialism, etc., etc.
I agree that it is obvious that France, Germany and Russia, are just pissed off that KBR beat them to the punch, economically! Does ANYBODY really want to see those particular countries overly-empowered again? (Hint: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin?)
And, here's an interesting question: why wouldn't it be SYRIA that took the WMDs across THEIR border, during the time that Hussein's regime had an entire DECADE to do so? A
After all, Syria has funded far more terrorism than ANY other Middle East state, and we KNOW they have current atomic technology--Israel had to take out one of their breeder reactors by surgical airstrike a LONG time ago. Why is that so easily forgotten?