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WAIT!These are laws. Environmental wackos and Al Gore do not make laws. Obviously the Congress and the various state legislatures had to pass these laws and the executive had to sign them. Is this not calledresponding to the will of the people--democracy? It is our system so long as we wish it to be. If you want to enthrone advocates of the Austrian school of economics and Adam Smith and constitute a governmentbased strictly on their principles, you are free to try.
Good economic policy = "The Invisible Hand"But if you're not going to go that route, then cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes, and cut taxes some more and let the people keep more of their money so they can guide the invisible hand however they want.
We got more problems in Appalachia than they do in Afghanistan. We're just chasing boogie men from cave to cave and getting soldiers killed for nothing. No matter what happens, as soon as we leave, Afghanistan will be just as poor and unstable as when we found it. Somebody will just replace the Taliban to maintain order. I say we give it one more year and pull out.
Don, that is the Vietnam solution you are advocating. Lets get going while the going is good. Persistence and consistency will lead us to victory. I have said for years that winning in Afghanistan is a generational fight. It will take at least one, maybe two generations to materially affect the culture and way of life of the average Afghan such that the Taliban no longer seem attractive.
Even if we win, what do we win? We're not fighting communism anymore. We're fighting a backward culture who doesn't like us, and the longer we stay the more we exacerbate that. Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. Life was simpler when we were propping up dictators in the region instead of trying to build democracy (which is ironic since we are dismantling our own freedoms here at home). If it weren't for the oil, we really wouldn't be there in the first place since that is our only national security issue IMHO.
I got it! I know why the Chinese are doing so well. 1) They use slave labor (saves on the overhead).2) They have an enormous market (us lazy Americans and their own 1.2 billion people).3) They don't follow environmental laws that have been foisted on the rest of the developed world.4) They aren't embroiled in foreign wars all over the globe.5) They are milking Hong Kong and Macao for all their worth.
I read indian history as well international history... its really interesting!__________Self Certification Mortgages In The UKAccident Claim
I like reading about Ashoka and the Mauryan Empire. I did a paper on him once.
Even if what Mr. Li says is true (and I don't deny some of it is true), the real reason why his country cannot adopt our approach is because it allows for more than one “influence” other than the state party. But sooner or later, China will have to adopt some form of our model because they have already embraced capitalism (yes a watered down version) that will only grow to resemble our own eventually because greed will never be completely factored out of the equation.
Something like that can well be done. Sounds like you're proposing the merger of quite a few boards, and I am not against that. Just to make it clear, you would the following American history in the same group/board:- c. 1860-1900- c. 1770-1860- 1900-1945- 1945-presentAre these dates more or less what you are thinking?
Looks about right to me.
I really don't think he should have had the rifle there in the first place. He could have made a home video and demonstrated it from his garage or something. He set himself up for this mishap.
Oh yes we students always pay atention to something on the tv when in class...he did it so the kids could see what they were like. I agree with what he did when I was in grade school I was a member of the SASS.The man that got me into it was a personal freind to the family and my history teacher (i was in a small town of about 800-1000). Well this school had trouble making the marks on state test so what he did for the class is he brought in certan wepons (that was okayed by the whole school board). but his guns were NEVER EVER EVER LOADED.The teacher should have gone through a gun safty course when he frist started reenacting lord knows I have for SASS and reenacting. This is totaly his fault and should get canned.
Well the guy deserves to be fired for being irresponsible. He's probably a stand up person, but there are consequences for things like this. He's just lucky nobody got hurt or he would be spending time behind bars for wanton endangerment or something.
The thing that was bothering me was that if someone wanted to make a post about something non-WWII related in America during the 1940s, where would it go? Not quite Great Depression, not quite Recent History....too bad history doesn't fit neatly into the compartments that historians like to place on past ages... 😉
To be honest, I would have American History broken down into: Colonial and Antebellum America, Civil War/Reconstruction/Gilded Age, Modern American History up to World War II, and Modern American History post World War II. Or some variant anyway.
Do you think that Lee's request to Jefferson Davis to be relieved of command after Gettysburg should have been honored?
Absolutely not. Lee made a mistake at Gettysburg, and was guilt ridden over it, but Davis knew he had no better general to lead his troops than Lee. The Army of Northern Virginia practically worshiped the "old man."
Good idea. Should have been done long ago. I've come to the conclusion that no matter how you structure your forum, people will post topics in the “wrong” forum because they have differing views on where the post belongs. If you do this, you broaden it to avoid the confusion.
This is actually kind of fascinating - how do you protect the historical items left on the moon? They have, after all, become pieces of history that have high relevance to American and world culture:
The most attractive objects include the remains of the Soviet Lunik 2 space probe, which crashed into the moon at 12,000 kilometers per hour (7,500 miles per hour) in 1959; dozens of small Soviet emblems shed by the probe shortly before impact; the first moon vehicle, brought to the moon on the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, and now parked near the Hadley Groove; and, finally, the golf ball that US astronaut Alan Shephard hit about 300 meters (984 feet) with a six-iron near the Fra Mauro crater on Feb. 6, 1971 -- not bad for a one-handed stroke in an uncomfortable space suit.
Urine Containers, 'Space Boots' and Artifacts Aren't Just Junk, Argue Archaeologists
What about the face on Mars "structure" in the Cydonia region? Does this qualify? 🙂
Of course how do we pull out now without the region disintegrating into a hellish quagmire of internecine warfare among the various power brokers of the region? If it's going to be a hellish quagmire, it might as well be one we're in charge of rather than powerless to influence.
Since I wrote this I've changed my mind. It's time to leave because the quagmire isn't going to happen now. Iraq is stable enough to handle the lingering affects of insurgency. We can't afford it anymore anyway. We need to get out of Afghanistan too. We can beat the Taliban back year in and year out, but we won't and can't destroy them completely. They just recruit fresh meat for the meat grinder. I no longer want my country in charge of anything in the Middle East. Let's get out now while we appear to be in good shape because the longer we stay, the likely hood of things going South again is only inevitable.
