http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4954856.stm
Please read, and then talk amongst yourselves...
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Thursday, May 04, 2006
A True Must Read!
Read... Read... Read, Read, Read!
The following essay by Shelby Steele: White Guilt and the Western Past
To be honest, Rush Limbaugh spent a good portion of his program Tuesday reading and talking about this essay. It is a marvelous piece of work and needs to be read and understood by all. The picture it paints of our country is a poor one. A picture of a country so weighed down by it's past sins and regrets that it can't do the right thing. If any of us we knew an individual who lived with such regrets we would encourage them to look at their life as a whole and judge it in it's entirety.
The amazing thing about our system and our Consititution is that during slavery we were violating our own laws. The injustice of slavery, on a national level was never codefied into our system. It had to occur outside of it. We as an American society had to strive to meet our own system's ideals. That was the true magic of the Founding Fathers. They created, not a system for their age, but one for an age to come. Despite their virtues and wisdom they could not meet the higher ideals of their own system, that was a quest for later generations. So never sit by while the ignorant and misguided label them as hypocrites. The Founding Fathers, warts and all, were visonaries. They were creating a system of government for another time. And 230 years later we are still living under that frame work.
Long live the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and long live America.
Ickybod
The following essay by Shelby Steele: White Guilt and the Western Past
To be honest, Rush Limbaugh spent a good portion of his program Tuesday reading and talking about this essay. It is a marvelous piece of work and needs to be read and understood by all. The picture it paints of our country is a poor one. A picture of a country so weighed down by it's past sins and regrets that it can't do the right thing. If any of us we knew an individual who lived with such regrets we would encourage them to look at their life as a whole and judge it in it's entirety.
The amazing thing about our system and our Consititution is that during slavery we were violating our own laws. The injustice of slavery, on a national level was never codefied into our system. It had to occur outside of it. We as an American society had to strive to meet our own system's ideals. That was the true magic of the Founding Fathers. They created, not a system for their age, but one for an age to come. Despite their virtues and wisdom they could not meet the higher ideals of their own system, that was a quest for later generations. So never sit by while the ignorant and misguided label them as hypocrites. The Founding Fathers, warts and all, were visonaries. They were creating a system of government for another time. And 230 years later we are still living under that frame work.
Long live the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and long live America.
Ickybod
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
BIDEN for president;
Forces out of Iraq;
Well the race for the presidency is on, and I have to hand it to Biden for having an Idea, a Direction, and an Opinion. Unfortunately it’s a horrible Idea, disastrous Direction, and a tired old Opinion. It is different than his party’s line, and to his credit not poll tested.
But, splitting up Iraq has same result as if the US forces had entered Iraq with the intent to destroying everything and then leave immediately when the Iraqi army and government there had fully toppled; civil war would have ensued and the three sects (Sunni, Shi'a, and Curd) would each go to their own corners and fight the battle of determining borders. The Shi'a portion of the country then left to fall directly into Iran’s sphere of influence.
The current Administration thought about this possibly and that why we are locked into a nation building effort. The net result of Biden’s plan would be disastrous for America.
The Biden solution doesn’t leave the nation better than we found it. People left divided and fighting each other in our wake (read killing each other, Darfur comes to mind). The nation of Iraq was whole when we arrived. It may actually have been better to have left Saddam in power than engage in Biden's chop it up initiative.
The Biden solution doesn’t resolve terror state issues that we went there in the first place to address. The Sunni and Shi'a regions would likely become confirmed terror states almost at the start of any such plan. Or worse, one or both of these thirds could become lawless and a good home for Al-Qeada to restart training programs.
The Biden solution doesn’t unify the people Iraq but encourages segregation, class war, and racism. These systems don’t work, in most of the world you can actively identify on-going wars that have lasted hundreds of years for the same tired story, he doesn’t look like me, he doesn’t worship like me, and he has more than me. This is inhumane, and we should try not to create these conditions when we can (see the Imperial English for some good examples).
America is the right idea, “a melting pot”, a group of different peoples and cultures coming together under one flag, one language, to act as one for the common interest of freedom. Let’s not let Biden trap them in a Separatist system we know will fail. No one likes the fact that our government and military are still there in Iraq, but since we are there then lets take our time and effort to improve their situation, lets at least try to give them the idea that we know works; FREEDOM.
Well the race for the presidency is on, and I have to hand it to Biden for having an Idea, a Direction, and an Opinion. Unfortunately it’s a horrible Idea, disastrous Direction, and a tired old Opinion. It is different than his party’s line, and to his credit not poll tested.
But, splitting up Iraq has same result as if the US forces had entered Iraq with the intent to destroying everything and then leave immediately when the Iraqi army and government there had fully toppled; civil war would have ensued and the three sects (Sunni, Shi'a, and Curd) would each go to their own corners and fight the battle of determining borders. The Shi'a portion of the country then left to fall directly into Iran’s sphere of influence.
The current Administration thought about this possibly and that why we are locked into a nation building effort. The net result of Biden’s plan would be disastrous for America.
The Biden solution doesn’t leave the nation better than we found it. People left divided and fighting each other in our wake (read killing each other, Darfur comes to mind). The nation of Iraq was whole when we arrived. It may actually have been better to have left Saddam in power than engage in Biden's chop it up initiative.
The Biden solution doesn’t resolve terror state issues that we went there in the first place to address. The Sunni and Shi'a regions would likely become confirmed terror states almost at the start of any such plan. Or worse, one or both of these thirds could become lawless and a good home for Al-Qeada to restart training programs.
The Biden solution doesn’t unify the people Iraq but encourages segregation, class war, and racism. These systems don’t work, in most of the world you can actively identify on-going wars that have lasted hundreds of years for the same tired story, he doesn’t look like me, he doesn’t worship like me, and he has more than me. This is inhumane, and we should try not to create these conditions when we can (see the Imperial English for some good examples).
America is the right idea, “a melting pot”, a group of different peoples and cultures coming together under one flag, one language, to act as one for the common interest of freedom. Let’s not let Biden trap them in a Separatist system we know will fail. No one likes the fact that our government and military are still there in Iraq, but since we are there then lets take our time and effort to improve their situation, lets at least try to give them the idea that we know works; FREEDOM.
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