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2006-11-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2006-11-14 05:50|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I really hate to repeat myself, but it has been so long...

Hunter / Killer Teams.

Start at home. Work outward.

Posted by .com 2006-11-14 07:09|| 2006-11-14 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Can we have a Reconquista now?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-11-14 07:43|| 2006-11-14 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 It is difficult not to conclude that there is a class of well-intentioned individuals
Well intentioned ? These are snarky anti-military types who have a case of penis envy because Alexander The Great is known worldwide, while Plato is known only by them.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-14 13:36|| 2006-11-14 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I think Schivelbusch's analysis misses two related points:

First, the reason intellectuals are ambivalent towards power is because they generally don't have any. Put them in power and see how accepting they'll be of defeat. If you don't believe me, just look what happens anyone tries to reform the education system in the US (Europe is much, much worse).

Second, intellectuals often look to military defeat to weaken the system that they are agitating against. I don't have the source handy, but during the Russo-Japanese war, a Russian admiral talked about how the intellectuals wanted their own military to lose because it would hasten the downfall of the czar.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-11-14 16:27|| 2006-11-14 16:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's rember what happens when intellectuals seize power and try to fold the world to their fantasy dreams. It tens to be very, very bloody

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-11-14 16:59|| 2006-11-14 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 James Carroll for idiot of the day or the Darwin Award. Certainly his kind of thinking leads to self extinction.

Posted by JohnQC 2006-11-14 17:43|| 2006-11-14 17:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Yep, and he's a pussy to.

Posted by Broadhead6 2006-11-14 19:45|| 2006-11-14 19:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Broadhead6, yea, his diatribe reminded me of Vagina Monologues.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-14 20:52|| 2006-11-14 20:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Taken collectively, and within the rationales of both dedicated enemies + neutralists, iff theres a prob wid so-called, alleged Amer IMPERIALISM, ITS THAT OUR ENEMIES ARE ANGRY AT AMERICA BECUZ AMERICA DIDN'T WIPE 'EM OUT/TAKE 'EM OVER SOONER. GOD = AMERICA > excuse and feel-good alibi for the hatred-angsts our enemies feel towards their own Gummermints, Societies, and Belief Systems, failures = defects therefrom. THEY WANT MODERNITY, WEALTH, AND INNOVATION-PROGRESS, ETC. BUT WITHOUT FREEDOM [GOD?]TO ACHIEVE OR EMPOWER SAME??? TO BE ALL THEY CAN BE WHILE SIMUL BEING CONTROLLED = LEGALLY ENSLAVED??? THEY CAN BE FREE, BUT NO ONE ELSE CAN BE??? And now you know the significance of the SACRED HEART of Jesus.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-14 22:21|| 2006-11-14 22:21|| Front Page Top

#10 ummmm, will that be on the exam ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-14 23:13|| 2006-11-14 23:13|| Front Page Top

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