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Old 10-14-2007, 03:26 AM   #11
Urbane Guerrilla
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The Brits are in chronic danger of becoming slaves of Parliament. They will not escape that danger until their populace rearms. That is what an understanding of the historic prevalence of human cussedness tells the objective observer. If it hasn't told you as much, are you even paying attention?

My proposition is much better phrased as "a free people can't stay free without arms, especially private arms."

I can't make head nor tail of "your confirmation bias." What is this?

Ibram: seventeen going on eighteen, and you have no optimism, no hope? What, just because we, the United States, are trying to do something about all this? Jay-zus, kid. I'm fifty-one. Am I pessimistic? And if not, why not?

Zen: one thing they are not doing is starving, as agriculture took off when Saddam, Uday, and Qusay all headed for parts unknown -- the Fertile Crescent is fertile yet, and look what happens when you take oppression's dead hand off. One thing they have now is cell phones and satellite dishes -- connectivity with the world's Functioning Economic Core, which they did not enjoy under the previous management.

Yeah, Zen, there's a civil war on -- in that war are the seeds of favorable change that will bring Iraq out of the Non-Integrating Gap (where it would have remained under Saddam, as is not open to dispute even between Cellarites) and develop it towards the globe's Functioning Core, to borrow two terms from Barnett's ideas.

It's very difficult to impeach me on matters of fact, as you've noticed, and so the opposition resorts to complaints about my style -- as if that might be a rebuttal of any weight! It just means I've been less than insinuating -- overt, in a word. The people who are puking -- well, their minds are made ill by being too far left, their values a pismire's weight, their cultural assumptions all a-crumble, under the weight of more careful scrutiny than they've given, themselves. Naturally, they are upset, and their stomachs upset along with them. The thing is, they are wrong to be upset. The question is, how much purging will they need to be rid of these toxins?
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