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It is still a widespread problem in Russia today. Heck, if I lived there now and was just a peon I would probably drink myself into oblivion too.
War is war, it is neither just or necessary. It just is. The question from a combatant point of view is how do I win? From a societal or governmental/diplomatic perspective it is Is fighting this war going to produce benefits in case of victory that balance the risks of defeat.War is an accounting with the means of account being territory and lives instead of dollars and cents.
OK everybody. Below is the video of building and firing my Trebuchet. My dog also does a cameo. The video was put together for class so excuse the million transitions and other assignment requirements. The light is kind of weird on the outside shots too because it was one of those weird weather days for the outside shoot but one I had to take because it was also one of the few days we have had recently without inches of snow cover.[html][/html]
I am just getting started on Twitter so I don;t really have a good feel for it yet. It is probably a good way to connect with a younger audience though.
There are positives and negatives to every war. I still maintain that Iraq is a net positive. It probably does not fit the criteria of a Just War, almost certainly not. But then, I personally don't get too hung up on Just War theory to begin with since it is so easily twisted.Is there consensus on any war? There are folks who claim WWII was unjust, just look at the retards that claim nuking Japan was unjustified.
I'm glad we toppled Saddam, but outside of that, it wasn't worth it.
I refuse to believe that ridding the world of the human cockroaches we did was not a net positive thing. Whether the Iraqis make anything of the opportunity we gave them is on them. We set the conditions, their freedom is their own to lose.
One thing (unsolicited advice ahead) - your automated tweets have your blog name and "new post" by all of them....it may help if you were to remove those so it's just the title of the new blog post in your tweet.
Thanks, I had not thought of that. I think I have it fixed now as a setting in my WP plugin.
I would argue that the only thing the government gets in return for entitlements is a mostly quiescent mob.
I am on Twitter @patrickshrier. I only use it to publicize my blog posts though.What is your handle or hashtag or whatever they call it?
I had contemplated contributing to Wikipedia in the past, but I supposed I did not want to begin battling it out with those on the other side of the political spectrum in what could be an unending war of "corrections".
It depends, ou still have to pick and choose which articles you are interested in. I have come to find out that most garbage info does get corrected pretty quick. Wikipedia can be useful but we still must be careful and critical and not always take it at face value.As to the anti-colonial bias, you are not going to escape it Ski. Whether it is right or wrong, that bias is now part of he conventional wisdom. If you point out that the colonies and the people in them did better under colonial rule you will just get beat up as a racist. Facts play no role whatsoever n that pseudo-debate.
What really got me thinking was the recent article about Wikipedia and Military History that appeared in the JMH. Wikipedia does a very good job at drums & trumpets type battle and campaign history.
I am not sure about the political stance of the BBC, but tugging at the heart strings to make a political point is straight out of the Liberal Americana playbook. You are absolutely right that using one example out of a nation of hundreds of millions is rather ridiculous as a means of pointing to a social problem. Yet, the point it makes it done quite well - people in the middle of America barely being able to eat. How many people freaked read the article and thought, "wow, America must be in really bad shape if even Iowans can't feed themselves"?
Given the amount of thought most people apparently put into their reactions, probably most of them.
The national ethos of the United States: a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. All men are created equal.But what's behind the mirror ? [url url=http://Nowhere to cook]Nowhere to cook[/url]Modificationhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21636723
That is a pretty nice hit piece on the American experience that is far from representative. I guarantee you I could find people in every Western country with a story that is as pathetic or worse. The article tells one story and ignores the wider context. Typical yellow journalism. Remember the Maine!
