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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Suma who wrote (28786)	2/9/2005 4:27:31 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

Hitler still has his fans, too. I won't join them. I'm sure Pol Pot and Idi Amin have people who think they are wonderful. But murder is murder and if you have any code of morals and ethics at all, it is wrong. It's like bonuss_in_austin AKA "laura bush" applauding Neocon's death. I had differences with the guy, but he did absolutely nothing I know of to deserve a death sentence except be born. Even Russian youngsters point out that it was under Stalin that their country achieved superpower status "on a par with America." Not quite. Only until an American President, Ronald Reagan, decided to America's secret weapon on them- -the productivity and creativity of capitalism on them. Then they collapsed like a house of cards. It resembles the Union in the Civil War. It went through general after general who could not win until finally, almost in desperation, it grasped Grant. He recognized the Union's strengths and the Confederacy's weaknesses- -the Unions plentiful industry and manpower and the South's lack of both. He used these strengths to grind the South into surrender. Why have the Eastern European liberal elites--seemingly so honest, brave, and highly respected--proved so pitifully ineffective on the political stage? Maybe for the same reason as American liberal elites. What is the answer to Eric Hoffer's famous dictum that "when freedom destroys order, a society's need for order will destroy freedom"? Well said. And true. A quote from President and former General Grant for you and yours: “Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupied no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate 'war, pestilence, and famine,' than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun." Ulysses S. Grant (Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. Vol. 1, p. 68)