Does anyone know enough about the politics of that state to know if there is a real conservative who can take that seat?
We shouldn't have lost in Iraq or Afghanistan, but we have. That's right, we LOST. Spend 10 years in a country at war? Oh sure. Afghanistan, Bush was so stupid he missed the opportunity to end the war at Tora Bora with a single tactical nuclear weapon. Instead, he let them go, insuring years of war and thousands of American casualties. I guess the blood of heros is preferrable to the most effective weapons we have.
I do not trust Obama, or for that many any American politician, to use nuclear weapons on Iran. But that's the only way we can win there. If we don't, then there is virtually no chance of defeating Iran. Israel may see it clearly, and use nuclear weapons. They should.
You are an optimist. I am a pessimist. While I hope you turn out to be right, I know this: the image generators sell wholesale. You and I sell retail.
So it doesn't matter that many, perhaps most boomers tried to STOP the excesses of politicians who bought votes with our money? And who is on the side of the looters? Gen-Xers, that's who, populating the Democrat Party and the whole left. Boomers who tried to stop the insanity have lost until now. There is slight hope through the Tea Party, but another term for Obama, thanks to Gen-Xers, and it's all over. America ... it was a wonderful idea.
Kerouac451, your father's experience is absolutely no surprise to me. Changing the perception that younger generations have is not possible. That's because the people who created, told and retold the (highly inaccurate) story of what was going on in the 1960s and 1970s were part of the left, and many either participated or were cheering them on. I can't tell you how many women who think it's just fine to wear the "peace symbol" as a decoration rather than the symbol of communism it was. Or wear Che t-shirts as a sign of rebellion, rather than psychotic mass murder. Because of my age, I often get "Oh, you must LOVE the Beatles!" No, I despised them and the horse they rode in on. But the image generators always win in the end.
Kerouac 451 said "The Clintons of the world, with the full support of Hollywood, help create this fantastical vision of the 60's and early 70's where everyone was "with it" and their entire generation rose up and created some utopian society, albeit for a breif time that we should all be striving to reacquire." This bring up a purely personal crotchet of mine. Ad agencies pitching their products to the boomer demo often are done by execs who are too young to know the societal currents the boomers swam in. I cannot buy a Honda ... their ads pitched to boomers focused on Woodstock in one commercial, and anti-war marchers with "peace" symbols in another. The execs did not know that while these were "with it" images of their day, the majority of boomers did not participate in either, and in fact may have despised both. I will not buy a car from a company that thinks I am either a maggot infested hippy living in filth, or a communist.
An interesting perspective, though the theory runs into problems when considering Jews of the boomer generation who are mainly aligned with Gen X politics. That is, the Democrats and the left. And this goes beyond whether or not they are practicing Jews or not. Also not mentioned is the degree of animosity caused when the Soviets captured territory during World War Two in Eastern Europe, and staffed concentration camps with Jewish guards and officials, all loyal communists. For that reason, Jews there were reviled as associated with communism, and were singled out for retribution as the captive populations rebelled.
I'm really getting to like Soylent Green. Plenty available, the taste is OK, and there's no longer a need to go hungry. I also have this book, which needs translation, that a liberal gave me. I can only read the cover: To Serve Man. I can't wait!
Unbelievable. Hekmatyar was NOT one of the good guys during the war against the Soviets. He was in it for himself, for his Hizb-i-Islami, and for ISI. ISI is who set him up, and recommended that the US give him money and weapons. Meanwhile, he killed more Afghan freedom fighters than he did Soviets and Afghan army.
And now we are actually talking with him? He was the main reason Afghanistan never had stability after the Soviets left. Is ISI pushing this? I wouldn't be surprised.
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