tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post8076553262864230893..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The ongoing farce.Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-27325288631732785602013-08-20T07:31:07.727-04:002013-08-20T07:31:07.727-04:00Robert Nisbet "The Present Age" 2010 the...Robert Nisbet "The Present Age" 2010 the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (p. 39):<br /><br />"In human terms, to suppose that the United States can long maintain a political and military machine of containment dimensions without destroying the localism, pluralism, and free enterprise in all spheres that are the true basis of American freedom and creativity, is to suppose utter fantasy. The affinity between militarism and socialist collectivism is, and has been throughout history, a close one. Far closer, let me emphasize, than the affinity between collectivism and, say, the speeches and writings of socialist propagandists."Pogohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067382603590454738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-48243071783495478202013-08-20T00:29:30.976-04:002013-08-20T00:29:30.976-04:00My "malevolence of their formulation" ca...My "malevolence of their formulation" captures something of your point, with which I do not disagree. Profound naivete, pig ignorance masked by "education," recklessness, or malevolence all get us to the same point. Of those, recklessness is the least plausible.<br /><br />Leonidas, I will make a guess that the Romans of the 5th century at least had some tiny bit of shame at the accumulation of their debt. Our controllers view it as a positive good. Our fate is the same as theirs, although I don't think they thought of cultural and demographic inundation by inferior cultures as the good that Western elites do. We casually embrace barbarism now.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-20124011631576863982013-08-19T16:02:55.714-04:002013-08-19T16:02:55.714-04:00The US now borrows more than $46 of every $100 it ...The US now borrows more than $46 of every $100 it spends. Rome recalled the legions from Britain in AD 410 (the same year Alaric sacked Rome to collect an unpaid debt). Foreign aid and imperial over reach will end whether we approve or not.ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976785560712692275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-50472034186720901472013-08-19T11:30:41.520-04:002013-08-19T11:30:41.520-04:00I must disagree.
I cannot prove it, but incompete...I must disagree.<br /><br />I cannot prove it, but incompetence of this level has to be deliberate and malicious.pdwalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05943525787137905313noreply@blogger.com