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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (56976)	10/4/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Actually YOU are the one unable to divorce feelings from fact- or else you would see that snobbery has nothing to do with the logic of an underlying argument. Idiocy is even more common than snobbery- why do I use the work idiot so much? (well I didn't use it much at all until you and Michael showed up, one uses the words that are apropos.)

To: jlallen who wrote (56976)	10/4/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

An application of the second parable: the organizing principle of our foreign policy until the collapse of the Soviet Union was the Cold War, and the concern with maintaining a strong strategic posture vis a vis the Soviets throughout the world. We drew a lesson from World War Two which is essentially sound, which is that one should react early to provocative actions by a potential adversary, and with resolve. This not only prevents them from gaining a strategic advantage, but dampens the enthusiasm for further adventures. For example, in the run up to WWII, the French made a stupid mistake not challenging the remilitarization of the Rhineland. According to William Shirer in his "Berlin Diaries", the Nazis were prepared to turn tale if there were any resistance. Instead, they violated the Versailles Treaty with impunity, became entrenched in a forward deployment, and were emboldened to pursue a more aggressive policy. The reason we turned against the Sandinistas, after originally providing them with aid, was that they were under the tutelage of the Cubans, and the ultimate sponsorship of the Soviet Union, acting as its proxy by channeling resources to other Marxist insurgencies in the area. Given the instability in the region, the porousness of our southern borders, and the existence of an underground network aiding illegals, we were not about to allow the Soviets to control the region...

To: jlallen who wrote (56976)	10/4/1999 12:12:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

An application of the third parable: Reagan did not get into politics through central casting. It began when he ran the Screen Actors Guild. He was elected six times to that position. He had also campaigned for many candidates, Democrats at first, including Harry Truman. During the '50s, he began to campaign as a Democratic supporter of Republican candidates, such as Eisenhower, and became a Republican in '62. He also was the chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council for a couple of years, working for the interests of the industry as a whole. When he worked for GE, he went around giving speeches and meeting with people. Then, in '64, he gave a nominating speech for Barry Goldwater at the Republican National Convention that many found galvanizing. He ran for governor of California in '66, and was re- elected for a second term in '70. He limited the growth of state government, reformed welfare, and ran up surpluses, much of which were rebated to taxpayers. After leaving the governorship, he campaigned for president, and spent the interim periods on planning and briefing. In short, Ronald Reagan was, in fact, a career politician with substantial experience and distinguished credentials by the time he became president of the United States, and the fact that he was not an intellectual is neither here nor there.....