Comments on: Next time we go a’nation-building… http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/ I used to be in the middle, but they keep moving the line! Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Steven Taylor http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-62361 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:22:44 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-62361 The lack of foresight on the obvious problems that we were going to face continues to amaze me (and not in a good way). The lack of foresight on the obvious problems that we were going to face continues to amaze me (and not in a good way).

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61991 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:52:26 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61991 Glide625 - are you suggesting that our elected officials (regardless of which branch of the government they are serving in) be required to write that sentence on the blockboard until it sinks in? ~EdT. Glide625 - are you suggesting that our elected officials (regardless of which branch of the government they are serving in) be required to write that sentence on the blockboard until it sinks in?

~EdT.

]]> by: glide625 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61952 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:36:57 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61952 I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril.
I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril.
I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril.
I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril.
I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril.
I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril.

]]> by: Polimom http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61823 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:48:52 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61823 John and Ed -- For whatever reason, Pete's post (linking to the Stupid vs Evil post) didn't show up in the trackbacks. It's relevant, though... <a rel="nofollow" href="http://centralsanity.blogspot.com/2007/03/prosecuting-prosecuters-prosecuters.html" rel="nofollow">Prosecuting the Prosecutors' Prosecutors</a> John and Ed –

For whatever reason, Pete’s post (linking to the Stupid vs Evil post) didn’t show up in the trackbacks. It’s relevant, though…

Prosecuting the Prosecutors’ Prosecutors

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61820 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:44:37 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61820 Nope... still falls into the "really <em>really</em> stupid" category. Or, the "heart was in the right place, but their head was implanted firmly between their cheeks..." category. ~EdT. Nope… still falls into the “really really stupid” category. Or, the “heart was in the right place, but their head was implanted firmly between their cheeks…” category.

~EdT.

]]> by: John http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61810 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:59:10 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61810 This actually goes right to the "when does stupidity become evil, because it was so avoidable" issue. This actually goes right to the “when does stupidity become evil, because it was so avoidable” issue.

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61789 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:58:37 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2007/03/22/next-time-we-go-anation-building/#comment-61789 How about this: we get out of the Nation-Building business altogether, unless it is <em>our</em> nation. There are times when it is reasonable to destroy an existing government (certainly, we as a planet would have come to a lot less grief had we had a W in charge over in Europe in the '30s, instead of the appeasers that were in place), but this is in fact a last-ditch thing, when absolutely <em>nothing</em> else will suffice. I wasn't all that thrilled about what happened in the former Yugoslavia, nor what happened in Somalia before. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril. ~EdT. How about this: we get out of the Nation-Building business altogether, unless it is our nation. There are times when it is reasonable to destroy an existing government (certainly, we as a planet would have come to a lot less grief had we had a W in charge over in Europe in the ’30s, instead of the appeasers that were in place), but this is in fact a last-ditch thing, when absolutely nothing else will suffice.

I wasn’t all that thrilled about what happened in the former Yugoslavia, nor what happened in Somalia before. I think that this is one area where we ignore the Founding Fathers at our peril.

~EdT.

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