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Octavius Hite · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:09 am Post subject:

Big Verne, the genocide in Darfur is against black africans, the janjiweed and the adminstration in Sudan are Arabs.

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ontheway · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:17 am Post subject:

"Say it ain't so, Joe. Say it ain't so."

"Some guys here kinda look up to you, like you was a hero or somethin'" Radar to Hawkie on MASH (as I remember it.)

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

The world needs heroes. People in the world need to have heroes, leaders and even a country they can look up to. Some have sports heroes, some have religion, many have more than one hero. Some have a special teacher, their father ...

But what happens when a hero lets us down. Our hopes and dreams are crushed. We become disillusioned, alienated. This experience can leave a person lost, rudderless, looking for answers ...

This puts a lot of pressure on these moral leaders in our world. We do not suffer greatly when the average man falls from grace, for we did not hold him up so high. But when our heroes, our moral leaders, fall, we are crushed.

This doesn't seem fair to those who are so worshipped. Hawkie was quite upset at Radar. He didn't want the responsibility of being Radar's hero. He didn't want to have to always maintain that higher standard.

So it is for the United States of America. America. It was a dream to Americans and the masses of the world. It stood for opportunity and wealth, yes, but more importantly, it stood for PRINCIPLES.

America, through it's history and mythology, from the protest, revolt and Declaration of Independence through World War II, it seemed to stand for something.

Moral principles. The PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY. Yes, America made mistakes, but they were small, they were tolerable.

Not so anymore.

Since the early part of the 20th Century, socialistic ideas began to take hold in America: the Federal Income Tax, the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression, the welfare state, growing unemployment (the product of taxes, regulation and the Social Security system), pollution and environmental degredation (the result of NOT recognizing the property rights of individuals in the environment) the energy crises itself - these are all the legacy of socialism. Worst of all of the socialistic ideas: interventionism and war.

Each of the many failures of the US Government to follow the known principles of liberty, has led to the alienation and disillusionment of millions of people at home and abroad. These people, often rudderless and confused, saddened and disappointed, turn to other people, places, ideologies, religions for a new moral compass.

This is what happened to Timothy McVeigh and to Osama bin Laden. Each believed in the US and later became disillusioned. McVeigh decided he would be the new hero and lead the second American revolution. His attempted "shot heard round the world" on April 19th, failed to bring an uprising and because he was really a dufus, he was quickly caught. Bin Laden also became his own revolutionary leader. He uses islam and the califate as tools, but they are not his motivation. Each of these men was crushed to discover that the US had feet of clay. Each was driven to destroy the old hero and create a new one.

The world needs a nation that will be its moral compass. A moral leader. This should be THE MOST important foreign and domestic policy imperative for the US government. It should guide and control all lawmaking and policy making decisions. It is the reason that decades of foreign adventurism has so harmed the citizens and the true interests of America. It is why a war in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Al Qaeda was just, and a war in Iraq was wrong.

No individual, group or government has the right to INITATE force against any other individual, group or government.

America must become a moral leader once again. America must follow the principles of liberty. America must abolish its welfare/warfare state.

This will not be an easy task. To regain the respect of the world, to have 'free trade with all and entangling alliances with none,' to fight the enemies that the US has already created for itself and maintain moral leadership at the same time will require sacrifice and suffering. But the alternative is the fall of America.

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ontheway · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject:

If the US had maintained its principles instead of becoming an interventionist socialist state there would be no Al Qaida.

The US must once again become a nation that respects the individual liberty of every person in the world. The US must be a beacon of hope. America's light of liberty can guide the way for the world. This will prevent the creation of FUTURE terrorists.

The terrorists that the US has already created will never stop. They must be caught or killed. This has to be done without violating the principles of liberty. This is the difficult challenge and the legacy the interventionists have left behind.

It is much more important to stop creating future terrorists than to catch the current ones who will eventually die anyway.