Posted by Sigismund on September 4, 2008, at 14:09:54
In reply to Re: Open Mic Night at the RNC » caraher, posted by Sigismund on September 4, 2008, at 4:16:16
Let me try to be less cryptic. Your president appears on the TV after I have had a few drinks and I am momentarily unhinged. Just as well I live here.
The teachings of Jesus, the American constitution, all are subject to our capacity for error, which becomes the stuff history is made of. One leader doesn't mean much. A decade of leadership means more. Good leaders perhaps know how to work with the grain of their people's temperaments. Perhaps this lot of leaders will do better. But the problem is in us. In Australia it was a failure of generosity. I can't read the US well enough, but it seems tied up with national pride and religion. Given that the teachings of Jesus ended in the wars of religion in Europe, perhaps you are not doing too badly. I must properly read Andrew Bacevich's "The Limits of Power" and "The New American Militarism". All the best commentary comes from old fashioned conservatives.
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