Obama On The Ropes
The stark new political reality, illuminated by Syria and amplified by Obamacare, is that many Americans, undoubtedly a majority, do not trust the government. It has promised much and delivered little, grown too big, powerful, and intrusive, and plunged the nation into debt and future commitments that will be an impossible-to-carry burden for future generations. The interim agreement with Iran and the failure of Obamacare will not deter proponents of war in the Middle East or state-provided medical care. Statists embrace and nurture failure―it’s all they’ve got (see “This Won’t Hurt A Bit,” November 12, 2013). However, there is a political opportunity for someone, probably outside the mainstream, to capitalize on the pervasive disillusionment and make the case that the people themselves, not politicians and bureaucrats, do the best job of running their own lives. That is, after all, the principle upon which our country was founded.
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But the failures are obvious.
The article gave a lot of attention to Iran. It is a limited problem. Hitler could threaten Czechoslovakia and Denmark, but could not be a danger to the United States. The absolute reality of geography denies that Iran can threaten anyone except Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Pakistan. The Iranian atomic bomb is just an Autobahn with Volkswagens... given that the roads actually were built and the cars actually delivered....
"We have only been waiting fifty years for our sanctions to produce a revolution in Cuba."
That speaks to a different issue. Positive reinforcement is more powerful than punishment. To conquer Cuba we should have increased the inputs. The same applies to Iran: blue jeans and music. Individualism is a positive sell.
Either you trust the free market or you do not. Right now, today;
1.00 USD = 24,827.00 IRR (XE.com)
USD = 24827 IRR (Yahoo Finance)
Levis always command a premium.
Even here and now I can only afford genuine Levis-brand levis when I am working as a technical writer for $50 per hour. When working as a security guard for $10 per hour, I wear the clothes I bought working the previous job... Just sayin'...
Reason can defeat Islam even easier than it defeated Christianity.
Free trade and free minds are inseparable: to achieve the second, just engage the first.
The absolute reality of ballistic missiles is that with sufficient delta-v, you can deliver an atomic bomb anywhere on Earth. In particular, in this case, Israel.
The absolute reality of modern trade is that, with sufficient espionage, you can deliver an atomic bomb to any port in the world. Worse, with sufficient espionage, you can hack a country's computer systems, you can sabotage its economy, you can spread a given, destructive philosophy, such as Islam or socialism. The idea that Islam's crusade for global domination doesn't threaten the United States is whistling in the dark, at best. The idea that Iran is not at the heart of that crusade is naive.
Iraq is right next door to Iran and was delivering scud missiles to Israel during the Gulf War. Iran has allies in Libya and Egypt who would deliver atomic bombs for them.
Hitler actually was a threat to the U.S., via the Bundists among us. Had he taken England, had he developed the atomic bomb first, he could have delivered it to the United States. Germany wasn't the *immediate* threat that Japan was, but that didn't stop us from devoting 60% of our war materiel to the European theater. And other than the extremely risk-prone attack on Pearl Harbor, the biggest threat of Japan was to China and southeast Asia, where much of the Pacific theater was fought, not Nebraska.