Liberty doesn’t start with limited government and individual rights – these are the product of a specific cultural evolution having its genesis in Ancient Greece and reaching the summit of philosophical maturity in the Anglo-American Enlightenment. Today civilization is weakened by a cultural disintegration and threatened by theocratic barbarians. Only a rational reality-based philosophy can secure liberty on a proper foundation.
Following up on our expose of Saudi Arabia as the fountainhead of Islamism and our recommendation for a change in policy, please consider today’s article on Saudi funding of terrorism on the Sixth Column blogspot.
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posted by Jason Pappas at 1:06 AM
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For those so inclined, there are much better reasons to criticize Bush than stupid slogans like 'Bush lied, people died'. (Notwithstanding the WMD fiasco, it was NOT clear at the time that Saddam didn't have them.) One of the better reasons to attack Bush is on his family's longtime friendship with the Saudi royal family, including private visits to the Bush ranch, etc. It's hard to criticize those you've been chummy with. Presidents and presidential aspirants should not be too friendly with foreign leaders.
Mahdi Obeidi wrote about Iraq's nuclear weapons in his book The Bomb in My Garden. The book is a scientist's assessment of the WMD situation and nonpolitical in perspective.
I believe that gas prices are going to soar through the roof anyway, unless the new Saudi president has an agenda different from his predecessor.
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