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Thursday, October 17, 2002
Why is it that some seem so surprised that North Korea has always maintained their program to develop nuclear arms?Why is that that – may I say it? – the conservative world view gets proved true time and time again.
We couldn’t trust the Soviet union, we can’t trust China, we can’t trust Cuba, we can’t trust Saddam Hussein. And we certainly can’t trust North Korea, no matter how much we subsidize their nuclear power program. How generous President Clinton was.
And isn’t it funny that President Carter was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “achievements” in world peace, when he earlier criticized President G.W. Bush’s “overly simplistic” (scroll down to “Axis of Has Beens”) view when the President incorporated North Korea as a member of the Axis of Evil?
Michael Kelly’s column from yesterday accurately describes what is considered “peace” by the Nobellians and the rest of the esteemed international community.
(underlining mine)
Many thoughts are unthinkable to the ideologically bankrupt establishment left that the Nobellians exemplify. Paramount among these is that war -- or, to be precise, war or the threat of war sponsored by the United States -- has been the modern world's great deliverer of peace. But there the truth sits.
Name, in the past hundred years, a single important triumph for peace and for liberal democracy that was purchased by the jaw-jawing the Nobellians so admire. No rush, take your time.
Now, look at what American war-war (and the threat of American war-war) won: the defeat of the fascist attempt to rule the world; the defeat of the communist attempt to rule the world; the consequent rebuilding of a Europe protected by American arms into a democratic and peaceful continent for the first time in history; the rebuilding of an American-protected Japan into a
democratic and peaceful nation for the first time in history; the emergence of a world in which, for the first time in history, the peaceful values of liberal democracy are the ascendant norm.
Speaking of awards, Michael Kelly or Charles Krauthammer should win the Pulitzer whenever that comes out.
We couldn’t trust the Soviet union, we can’t trust China, we can’t trust Cuba, we can’t trust Saddam Hussein. And we certainly can’t trust North Korea, no matter how much we subsidize their nuclear power program. How generous President Clinton was.
And isn’t it funny that President Carter was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his “achievements” in world peace, when he earlier criticized President G.W. Bush’s “overly simplistic” (scroll down to “Axis of Has Beens”) view when the President incorporated North Korea as a member of the Axis of Evil?
Michael Kelly’s column from yesterday accurately describes what is considered “peace” by the Nobellians and the rest of the esteemed international community.
(underlining mine)
Many thoughts are unthinkable to the ideologically bankrupt establishment left that the Nobellians exemplify. Paramount among these is that war -- or, to be precise, war or the threat of war sponsored by the United States -- has been the modern world's great deliverer of peace. But there the truth sits.
Name, in the past hundred years, a single important triumph for peace and for liberal democracy that was purchased by the jaw-jawing the Nobellians so admire. No rush, take your time.
Now, look at what American war-war (and the threat of American war-war) won: the defeat of the fascist attempt to rule the world; the defeat of the communist attempt to rule the world; the consequent rebuilding of a Europe protected by American arms into a democratic and peaceful continent for the first time in history; the rebuilding of an American-protected Japan into a
democratic and peaceful nation for the first time in history; the emergence of a world in which, for the first time in history, the peaceful values of liberal democracy are the ascendant norm.
Speaking of awards, Michael Kelly or Charles Krauthammer should win the Pulitzer whenever that comes out.
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Here is my little experiment at blogging, web page authoring, venting, writing, and trying to articulate what goes through my head.
I have become quite fond of blogs, such as The Volokh Conspiracy, NRO’s The Corner, and yes, Instapundit. And while I don’t intend on competing with those sites, I think it’s a great opportunity to post my own thoughts and even more importantly, work to articulate them. So I am going forward with this experiment, inexperienced, unready, and unsure. Hopefully not too many will read this and if they do, hopefully it will only be after I get the hang of this.
While I have enjoyed blogs and toyed with starting one myself, what finally pushed me over the edge was two things: the misinterpretation of Elder Russell M. Nelson’s talk last week by the Associated Press and ,the 10th Circuit Appellate Court’s decision holding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints cannot regulate any form of speech or conduct on the Main Street property they purchased.
I have become quite fond of blogs, such as The Volokh Conspiracy, NRO’s The Corner, and yes, Instapundit. And while I don’t intend on competing with those sites, I think it’s a great opportunity to post my own thoughts and even more importantly, work to articulate them. So I am going forward with this experiment, inexperienced, unready, and unsure. Hopefully not too many will read this and if they do, hopefully it will only be after I get the hang of this.
While I have enjoyed blogs and toyed with starting one myself, what finally pushed me over the edge was two things: the misinterpretation of Elder Russell M. Nelson’s talk last week by the Associated Press and ,the 10th Circuit Appellate Court’s decision holding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints cannot regulate any form of speech or conduct on the Main Street property they purchased.