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The Neville Chamberlains of the world will act as the shortcut to the death of Democracy. They would have us silently march to the railroad cars.

Your writings are like a dose of penicillin for those suffering from that dreaded social disease, acursonus-hyperliberalism or A-H for short. People should copy and send your articles to the people who they know are A-H's.

Sorry guys, I just read through my post and discovered that my "peek" link is missing. I had some problems this AM and in my haste to fix the it, I forgot to put the link back. Just in case you were dying to know:
www.worldpeaceforum.ca/

Note to Jack, Or possibly ADHD acursonus-deludum-hyperliberalism-diment? You do love to play!

I dunnno. I found the post all kind of froo-froo itself. It's easy to sneer. It's not easy to face that fact that U.S. foreign policy may have had some small thing to do with the mess we're in, and take responsibility for turning things around. Take our oil dependence, for a start. Grand policy-making, even military invasions, don't seem to be getting us anywhere. But if Tina, Ron and Jack could be persuaded to get their groceries on the bike ...

libby, Thanks for the comment. My purpose is not to sneer, although I can understand how you might hear that. My purpose is to demonstrate that peace cannot be achieved, it's a silly goal, and the usual "methods" for attempting to make peace happen by well meaning peace activist is just so much froo froo...if I may borrow your words.
The idea that things need to be "turned around" smacks of a difference of opinion, but doesn't really indicate a greater level of responsibility
on your part.
Riding a bicycle to buy my groceries, and I assume all else, would do very little for the people I employ who depend on my showing up regularly at work for small things like paychecks, bonuses, Christmans parties, insurance, vacations with pay, & time off when needed (as long as it's not abused). It takes time to ride a bike everywhere. Sigh, if only we could have nirvana...but I'm not that fast on a bicycle and besides, at 8-10 miles or more away my ice cream would melt!
"Grand policy-making, even military invasions, don't seem to be getting us anywhere." I guess fighting terrorism, instead of pretending they will just leave us alone, isn't a worthy indeavor for you? The terrorists have been at it since 1979 with increasingly distructive tactics. Just how BAD would it have to get before you would take them seriously. If freeing two countries that aided and abetted terrorists and ridding them of terrible tyranical leaders isn't "getting us anywhere", then I don't know what would. Peace talks sure didn't result in anything more than more attacks.

Hope you comment again, libby

I have been waiting almost 5 years for the reason why 9/11 happened now I know its because Tina, Ron and Jack don't ride bikes! You (I can't keep from laughing) BASXXXXX! If only you had been riding bikes on 9/11, you could have saved us from the likes of Cindy Sheehan (I don't care enough about her to see if I spelled her name right) and others. I hope your happy! ROFLMMFAO!

I'm going to try to salvage part of Libby's comments because I think it has merit and some posters threw out the baby with the bathwater.

Our Oil Dependence - thats something we need to solve.

We have a greater dependence on foreign oil now than when we had the "oil crisis" of 1974, even though we vowed as a nation at that time to reduce foreign oil dependence. Whether you Love/hate the Arab world, they pull the plug on oil and we are in trouble becuase we don't have capacity for production in the US to match.

The arguments for opening drilling on ANWR and offshore drilling again aside, we do need as a nation to start cohesively moving towards alternate energy sources and energy use efficiency.

While the "getting Jack, Tina, Ron on a bike.." comment may on the surface seem silly, what Libby was referring to was that change starts individually. I did it by putting solar power on my home, others can do it by riding a bike to work or the grocery store on occasion. I'm planning on doing that once some bike paths/roads near my hme are completed and make it practical.

Don't want to ride a bike, thats fine. There are other ways. I'm waiting to see how hybrids shake out...almost bought one this time..decided to wait until the technology improves a bit more.

Other ways include replacing light bulbs with more energy efficient ones, and recycling more.

Reducing our dependence on foreign oil is in my opinion, just as patriotic and good for the country as many other things we do to support our country and our troops. Ditto fo developing altrnate energy sources and processes.

Wouldn't it be nice in a few years to be able to tell OPEC to "go stick it"? Now that would be a moment of national pride.

Well said Anthony, libby did have a point, we do need to solve our oil dependence problem. (And perhaps I misunderstood her intentions)
We are working on the oil problem, despite the liberal rants to the contrary and motivations to discredit and stop our efforts. We just opened new land for exploration and drilling in the Green River area. My father-in-law was working on batteries (as an alternative car fuel) at the Livermore Lab facility over twenty years ago, I'm sure they continue in other efforts today. Every entrepreneur in the country with an interest is noodling away in his garage as we speak! Most Americans, I would bet, are already recycling, changing light bulbs, going without air conditioniong, etc. to lower energy usage. We have done it for many reasons, some selfish (my pocketbook!) and others as a matter of civic responsibility (I prefer things like clean air and low gas prices for everyone). We are Americans; we love to solve problems!

My post was directed toward peace activists' solutions that don't work. We need to win the war for many reasons, peace being one of them. I suppose our dependence on Middle East oil plays a part in that, but if terrorists manage to bring down economic health in the world with their activities it won't matter much that we have achieved oil independence, the depression and oppression that likely would follow would find us all doing without...just about everything. Singing Kumbaya doesn't work, the peaceniks continue to lie that and about what does work...and people have died because of it.

Anthony, I am with you 100% about people being able to make a difference and I am with you about telling OPEC to "stick it" and achieving some national pride.
Unfortunately, pride, honor, independence, self reliance, courage, patriotism have no meaning to the Left in this Country.
If they had any of these attributes, oil would be pumping out of ANWR. We would have new and improved nuclear plants online and under construction all over the Country. We need to care more about our energy needs and less about fish or some odd plant species and build more hydro-electric plants. We are (for the time being anyway) the standard by which hard working, industrialized Countries judge their economies and life styles. They strive hard to copy us so they can beat us, that is how the game is played. Now if it were left at that, things would be fine. Unfortunately the Left wants a world economy, and to help that succeed they have got to hamstring our economy and our way of life at every turn. In their minds, it just isn't fair to make little Countries with little economies compete with our world driving economy. Never mind the fact that we built this Country, not overnight but over two hundred years of hard work and sacrifice. Never mind that when other Countries need our help, pretty much all they have to do is ask and we are falling all over ourselves to help them out.
The problem, and here it is, is that liberalism is more at home with socialism and communism and will always be at odds with democracy and capitalism. If liberalism isn't a cancer to democracy and capitalism why are they always reinventing it? Why do they need to rename it? If liberalism is such a grand and glorious thing, why don't elected liberal politicians stand with pride and scream "I am a liberal and proud of it"? It all comes back to them not having any use for pride, courage, honor or the rest. In the long run liberalism is a bigger problem and danger to the United States than Islamic terrorist's will ever be. No bike I know of is going to help stop liberalism.

...isn't fair to make little countries with little economies compete with our world driving economy.

Toby your post was right on. I would add:

"A rising tide floats all boats"
Ronald Reagan said this long ago and he was so right! Little countries don't have to beat America or get bigger than America to compete and win in the economic game. Witness our friends across the pond in Ireland. A few years back they drastically lowered their taxes and the economy grew like crazy. They remained decidedly Irish tailoring their image in the world to suit themselves. They didn't have to become mini-America. This is what real diversity is...like that other substance, when we just get out of the way IT happens.