.….the US needs a leadership to confront the transcendent challenge of our time: the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.” Thus Senator McCain recently. The former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, responding to this crass remark, said: "Somebody who says that kind of stuff either thinks, probably correctly, that the American people are not well informed—in …
"The United States is the indispensable nation because we have proven to be the greatest force for good in human history…We have every intention of continuing to use our primacy in world affair for humanity’s benefit." John McCain 1999 Epicurus, were he alive today, would no doubt reply, " Well, you can start by leaving …
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"Fight the good fight with all your mightThine is the strength and thine the might." I remember this, hopefully correctly, from school chapel at the age of 18, a good Christian sentiment. Why is "fighting" so highly regarded? We "fight" the Taliban in Helmand province (instead of talking to them). We "fight" Hamas in Gaza …
Missionary to Capitol Hill and Evangelical leader Rev. Rob Schenck is concerned that Obama may in fact be a Muslim because, as he put it, the issue is really how the Muslim world defines being Muslim. As he sees it, Muslims inherit their religion from their parents, specifically their fathers. Thus, to be born of …
Fine words, Mr. Obama, fine intentions, Mrs Clinton, but where will you find the good administrators? The Bush administration has been famously populated either by incompetent people who, as the British rather coarsely say, "couldn’t manage a piss-up in a brewery". But this is not just a problem for one political party, it is a …
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