Comments on: America Sleeps http://zukunftsaugen.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/america-sleeps/ Commentary on the Politics of Division Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:32:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: zukunftsaugen http://zukunftsaugen.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/america-sleeps/#comment-1228 zukunftsaugen Mon, 05 May 2008 15:27:14 +0000 http://zukunftsaugen.wordpress.com/?p=398#comment-1228 J.A.C., thanks for the thoughts... when you have a ship with no rudder (and for sure no moral rudder), the ship can fall under the influence of many forces such as winds, tides, and currents... The American "ship of state" has been rudderless since 2000 and we have the evidence to show that. "I've got political capital", the swager post Iraq invasion, and the "So" (of Dick Cheney) are all part of it.... Hurray January 20, 2009. J.A.C., thanks for the thoughts… when you have a ship with no rudder (and for sure no moral rudder), the ship can fall under the influence of many forces such as winds, tides, and currents… The American “ship of state” has been rudderless since 2000 and we have the evidence to show that. “I’ve got political capital”, the swager post Iraq invasion, and the “So” (of Dick Cheney) are all part of it…. Hurray January 20, 2009.

]]> By: J. A. Carizo http://zukunftsaugen.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/america-sleeps/#comment-1226 J. A. Carizo Mon, 05 May 2008 14:25:20 +0000 http://zukunftsaugen.wordpress.com/?p=398#comment-1226 I think it's not that America sleeps. It's that some rightists, particularly those in the government, is sick with superman syndrome - a variation of the so-called messianic complex. In the first place, why should America meddle in the affairs of other states? Because John Doone said no man is an island so it has given itself the right to plunge in any affairs not its own? Or because lately, America has been attacked by terrorists so it needs to retaliate? If so, isn't it that America is the "bastion of democracy"? And isn't it that in democracy there is a rule of law? So why use military might rather than use the rule of law? Unless the rule of law has been amended to read as the enforcement of military might. Hmmnnnn. Just some thoughts. I think it’s not that America sleeps. It’s that some rightists, particularly those in the government, is sick with superman syndrome - a variation of the so-called messianic complex. In the first place, why should America meddle in the affairs of other states? Because John Doone said no man is an island so it has given itself the right to plunge in any affairs not its own? Or because lately, America has been attacked by terrorists so it needs to retaliate? If so, isn’t it that America is the “bastion of democracy”? And isn’t it that in democracy there is a rule of law? So why use military might rather than use the rule of law? Unless the rule of law has been amended to read as the enforcement of military might.

Hmmnnnn. Just some thoughts.

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