tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post2602724747653630701..comments2010-05-18T13:15:52.302-07:00Comments on ............................Bush2012: the Reluctant Settler and the Turbulent FrontierBlack Republicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00833605317661709789noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-54231073836063807432009-10-21T23:58:56.079-07:002009-10-21T23:58:56.079-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Black Republicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833605317661709789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-44005341431147074812009-10-21T21:57:55.421-07:002009-10-21T21:57:55.421-07:00Sometimes the tough call may be one’s refusal to e...Sometimes the tough call may be one’s refusal to engage in the conflict. Additionally, what is an escalation of Americans in those countries other than more honey for Taliban frenzy? Also, who broke it? Brother Bush? Brother Jeb? Brother boot up yer’ ass? <br /><br />Moreover, all can disappear if you turn away from it, but say what you will BR; regardless, you’ll be wishing you could vibe on my tasty waves AND MY NUGS from that sand dune where Sgt. Rosco will cry for you to feel for his johnson just incase the numbness near his hips actually DOES mean that the shaft has been partially removed and rendered useless.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12083415358389813963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-56544572088201141842009-10-21T19:45:36.459-07:002009-10-21T19:45:36.459-07:00Or we could just let the Taliban take over Afghani...Or we could just let the Taliban take over Afghanistan, kill anyone who worked with us, impose fundamentalist Islamic law on everyone, and work to destabilize the already unstable nuclear power Pakistan.<br /><br />I think your solutions imply more violence and danger and war than the status quo or the proposed escalation.Black Republicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833605317661709789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-77956767948409221712009-10-21T19:42:17.872-07:002009-10-21T19:42:17.872-07:00You break it you bought it Al. No ammount of hand-...You break it you bought it Al. No ammount of hand-wringing and angst will get you a refund.<br /><br />And you've indicated your weariness with taking a hand in our shared project as Americans. I wish I could divorce myself from the efforts of my brothers so easily.<br /><br />I wonder how many waves youll shred Al. How much pot you'll smoke. How many groovy conversations youll have around the campfire... For me, that would never be as meaningful and satisfying as crafting my actions through the eyes of people I love and the expectations of people I respect.<br /><br />Our "people's project" isn't some creepy North Korean sort of a thing, it is merely the notion that our sweetest existence takes place when we take on the responsibilities of our awesome power we hold as Americans. The appeal of the "people's project" is that it isn't something that dissapears when you turn away from it. We merely become corrupted, infantized and alienated by our refusal to engage in the conflict that claims American lives.<br /><br />You are purposefully flippant with the issues (illuminati, etc.. ) because its hard to accept the messy reality that these decison are made by real Americans like you and me who take on the burden of making tough calls. Woe onto them that make perfect the enemy of good. I feel bad for you who feels that shovelling pot and ipods into your bottomless appetites will do anything but leave you exhausted and hungry on your death bed. The "people's project," in it's foreign and domestic forms, is the noblest exercise in which a human can engage. <br /><br />As MLK Jr said, the righteous man is he who sweats and bleeds to bend the arc of history towards justice.Black Republicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833605317661709789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-18648426214919571902009-10-21T02:11:02.863-07:002009-10-21T02:11:02.863-07:00I'm weary of the illuminati, also of said &quo...I'm weary of the illuminati, also of said "people's project." This whole nation building notion of BR's, it sounds like it's coming fresh from the frothy mouthes down at Jew Command.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12083415358389813963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-40565211144244390422009-10-18T23:07:07.556-07:002009-10-18T23:07:07.556-07:00"carried his people's project one mile fu..."carried his people's project one mile further."Black Republicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833605317661709789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-15354650794403629142009-10-18T23:04:21.644-07:002009-10-18T23:04:21.644-07:00"No matter how much you try to hide behind no..."No matter how much you try to hide behind notions of freedom, your wish to transpose your views upon others will ultimately keep you from truly understanding it."<br /><br />Brian, Brian, Brian. Woe onto them that bend to the tautologies that roll off your forked tongue. Perhaps they could use a feminist President. Seems we'll have to try for something humbler if we wish to impose both democracy and liberalism at once.<br /><br />I must say, I find your counteranalysis a little less than overwhelming here. You are want to look at the impacts of withdrawal, the responsibility of Americans to stand by those who have stood up to tyranny and superstition and hierarchy and terrorism. <br /><br />I suppose Brian, that those who have stood up to these forces have always had the same enemy. They base their arguements on order and stability and fear and self-preservation and defeatism and the backwards idea that superstition and slavery can be instruments of courage and freedom.<br /><br />What would you have said about Apartheid in South Africa Brian??? It's their problem isn't it. What would you have said about civil rights abuses in the deep South of 1960? It's not our problem in the North is it? You can fortify yourself in a stable fortress against the problems of the Otherlings, but that life is hollow and meaningless.<br /><br />As MLK Jr said, we are all bound together in one garment of destiny. I cannot be free if you are unfree, and vice-versa. <br /><br />You treat liberalism like it is an overarching imposition of what is valuable in life, but it is really a neutral grid for allowing individuals to pursure their own vision of the good while respecting the moral powers of others.<br /><br />Brian, I think once you come to terms with the character of liberalism, you will feel comfortable accepting your responsibilities in the Middle East. What will the history books say about you Brian Ely, that you are disingenious, treacherous, like a stagnant swamp filled with eels??? <br /><br />OR will they say that you were a man who understood the weight of his crown and heard the call of the frontier, and carried people's project one mile farther?Black Republicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00833605317661709789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5675838528429516270.post-10416243095874853342009-10-18T22:15:08.183-07:002009-10-18T22:15:08.183-07:00I have to give it to you Hans. Your romantic notio...I have to give it to you Hans. Your romantic notions of invade and conquer would certainly arouse proud notions of bombs bursting in freedoms sweet air in the hearts of even the most 'spineless' pacifists. <br />Near the beginning of your ethnocentric rant, you mention that our supposed ally Karzai's waning legitimacy is souring Afghanistan's view in America. But you take nothing of importance from this notion? Perhaps we can find one of your Afghan liberal wunderkinds to usher in our country's ideologies. A feminist perhaps? Maybe a homosexual president is just what Afghanistan needs to introduce them to all the fruits of American capitalism. <br />No matter how much you try to hide behind notions of freedom, your wish to transpose your views upon others will ultimately keep you from truly understanding it.<br />"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual." Irving BabbittBrianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16210363588389924464noreply@blogger.com