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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
Well, DanaC, you're reduced to complaining at my tone. That tells me you are completely out of persuasive arguments for your point of view contrasted with mine. Capitalism wins out over socialism again, Right trumps Left. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn summed it up: "Right is right." He left his reader to draw the conclusion about the Left.
This is usually the outcome when someone tangles with me on this field. I am not lacking in intellect myself -- and like you, my intellect leads me to the stances I take, and shows me what's wrong with the others. I'm able to articulate what's wrong, too. Frankly, very few of my opponents get that far. You can read what they wrote, and they just can't do it. As the observation has it, recorded in various forms from the late nineteenth century through Clemenceau and Churchill: "If you aren't a socialist [earlier: liberal] at twenty you have no heart; if you're still a socialist [earlier: aren't a conservative] at forty you have no brain." By this standard, I've always been blessed with a brain. This is why my opposition ends up in a corner.
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I disagree. I've found you lacking in the intellect department on a few occasions, and I have yet to see your intellect or debating skills back anyone into a corner. While we can agree that socialism is always a failure and pure capitalism is always a success, this to me is merely stating the obvious.
As far as "right is right" goes, I also disagree with that. I don't think any polarized position is tenable. This is why libertarians are accused of being leftist by those on the right and of being right-wingers by those on the left. I support freedom in all cases. I support the non-initiation of force in all cases, which isn't to say I am against the use of force...just not initiating it. It's ok to use force against those who are using force to infringe upon your property, person, or rights.
This is why your foreign policy views are so backwards. You support the initiation of force to enforce your own personal view of what freedom means. You support misusing our military for actions that are not in our own defense. You support going around the world bullying people into submission and making enemies, and keeping us in a perpetual state of unnecessary war.