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<blockquote data-quote="jaybadger82" data-source="post: 448822" data-attributes="member: 6211"><p>Really? You're going to recite a T. Rowe Price commercial for me?</p><p> </p><p>[media=youtube]_oSO_OX0HOc[/media]</p><p> </p><p>(...and calling the financial problems in Greece a "faux pas" must be the understatement of the decade.)</p><p> </p><p>Burke lived at the center of a global trade empire that would come to span several continents and a quarter of the Earth's land surface. International commerce is hardly new. More importantly, you miss the fact that Burke's observations concerning human nature are as true today as they were 200 years ago.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>1) The attacks of 9/11 were perpetrated by religious extremists, NOT a rogue nation bent on destroying us.</p><p>2) Our disproportionate interest in the Middle East region (and other oil-producing countries such as Argentina) stem directly from our economic dependence on oil. Economic dependency is not an unlimited license for military intervention. Seems like we should address the dependency. This is not isolationism.</p><p>3) Setting a "proactive example of freedom" is a rather pleasant-sounding euphemism for imperialism, which tends to breed resentment amongst those in "the dark recesses of the world." Again, we're back to human nature and the mistaken worldview that foreign people welcome such encroachment. The hill tribes in Afghanistan want nothing to do with what we're offering. Have you ever read <em>Heart of Darkness</em>?</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Barf. Please spare me the idealistic speeches built around so vague and abstract a concept as "freedom."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaybadger82, post: 448822, member: 6211"] Really? You're going to recite a T. Rowe Price commercial for me? [media=youtube]_oSO_OX0HOc[/media] (...and calling the financial problems in Greece a "faux pas" must be the understatement of the decade.) Burke lived at the center of a global trade empire that would come to span several continents and a quarter of the Earth's land surface. International commerce is hardly new. More importantly, you miss the fact that Burke's observations concerning human nature are as true today as they were 200 years ago. 1) The attacks of 9/11 were perpetrated by religious extremists, NOT a rogue nation bent on destroying us. 2) Our disproportionate interest in the Middle East region (and other oil-producing countries such as Argentina) stem directly from our economic dependence on oil. Economic dependency is not an unlimited license for military intervention. Seems like we should address the dependency. This is not isolationism. 3) Setting a "proactive example of freedom" is a rather pleasant-sounding euphemism for imperialism, which tends to breed resentment amongst those in "the dark recesses of the world." Again, we're back to human nature and the mistaken worldview that foreign people welcome such encroachment. The hill tribes in Afghanistan want nothing to do with what we're offering. Have you ever read [I]Heart of Darkness[/I]? Barf. Please spare me the idealistic speeches built around so vague and abstract a concept as "freedom." [/QUOTE]
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