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2019-10-28 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 This is significant.
A member of the Uniparty admitting he was wr-...
uh, wro-.... [darnit! can't quite get the word out!]
EFFING WRONG about the central postulate of the 30+ year reign of foolish Globalism.

No, Virginia, there is no Democracy Fairy that will magically transform the world's oldest, proudly non-democratic, anti-Western cultures (Chinese, Persian, Russian) into Norman Rockwell pictures of New England town halls.

Clue: They don't want to be like us - except in the sense that we're very rich and very powerful.

Clue #2: wealth & power to them are part of a zero-sum game.
In their reading of the last 80 years, we gained at their expense. They now believe it's their turn to gain - at our expense.

They don't believe in "win-win." Doesn't translate into mandarin, Farsi or russkii.

Ponyal?

Posted by Lex 2019-10-28 01:02|| 2019-10-28 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Sam Huntington told youze.
But ya didn't listen.
How you tried to set them free...
How you suffered for your sanity..
They did not listen - they did not know how...
Perhaps they'll listen... now.... tra-la-la

Posted by Lex 2019-10-28 01:05|| 2019-10-28 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a good start Newt. Now consider that else you were wrong about.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-28 05:06|| 2019-10-28 05:06|| Front Page Top

He was right about this.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-28 06:45|| 2019-10-28 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 - failure to pass the Term Limits amendment. You think we'd have Pelosi, Schumer, and the GOPe still there?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-10-28 07:05|| 2019-10-28 07:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Lousy SF writer

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-10-28 07:11|| 2019-10-28 07:11|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 True, B. That's an astute observation and some rare (for Washington) truth-telling, to Gingrich's credit.

Gingrich isn't as bad as most. At least he never cashed in on the Great China Sellout.

Posted by Lex 2019-10-28 08:33|| 2019-10-28 08:33|| Front Page Top

#8 getting them into a rules-based system would gradually permeate their culture

The hubris inherent in this attitude is clearly amazing.

As far as term limits go, the one big down side is that it would increase the power of the bureaucrats as they'd be the only source of institutional memory.

I'm coming around to the idea that the first thing that needs to be done is a total revamp of the Civil Service system.

Posted by AlanC 2019-10-28 09:51|| 2019-10-28 09:51|| Front Page Top

#9 They don't want to be like us. They sneer at our concepts of human rights. They guffaw at our stupid Hollywood movies. They have nothing but contempt for our identity politics.

History did not end in 1991. To the Chinese, Persians and Russians, it has never ended.

Their histories are long, as are their memories, and unlike us, they are not impatient people. "Winter will come."

Posted by Lex 2019-10-28 10:15|| 2019-10-28 10:15|| Front Page Top

#10 8 getting them into a rules-based system would gradually permeate their culture

Strange attitude for a self styled "conservative" to take.

"A scrap of paper will make a mass murdering regime behave itself."

Posted by charger 2019-10-28 10:27|| 2019-10-28 10:27|| Front Page Top

#11 It's the typical embarrassing naivete only an academic can master and wield like a club. In that sense, Newt was just doing the same harm on the legislative side that people like Rice (Condi and Susan) and Samantha Powell did on the NatSec side. The only academics who have ever on balance done more good than harm in our government are Kissinger (almost a break even, could tilt either way) and George Kennan (more like this one please.)

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-10-28 15:56|| 2019-10-28 15:56|| Front Page Top

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