I’m glad to see that my thoughtful posts on Germany’s Unemployment Rate, Hillary’s leftist enemies, and Japanese politicians brought you in…
But as Michelle Malkin’s pictures were the offending pleasing link, I’m sure the now-cliche Lebanese babes may be of interest. As will The Economist, the sexist magazine of all time.
Cheers!
“Huge Crowds at Pro-Syria Rally,” CNN, 8 March 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/08/lebanon.syria/index.html.
I need to revise my view on Hezbollah in light of…
Wow.
Watching the Hezbollah protest in Lebanon, I see Lebanese flags everywhere. No Syrian flags, no banners, and few framed photos.
This is Hezbollah acting as a patriotic Lebanese party.
Great. Hopefully Hezbollah’s pro-Syrian statements are to show it has something to trade. And hopefully this, like Sistani’s call for a peaceful march on Najaf, is Hezbollah’s demonstration that they understand peaceful change.
What a wonderful day!
Update: Templar Pundit is not pleased
“LeT planned to target software cos in Bangalore,” Sify News, 6 March 2005, http://sify.com/news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13687293 (from slashdot).
“Terrorists target offshore call centres,” by John Oates, The Register, 7 March 2005, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/07/offshore_goes_bang/ (from sify).
Just as Zarqawi understands the ends, The Army of the Pure knows the appropriate means.
They are trying to hit India by killing content, capital, and information flows. They are trying to hit call software firms and call centers
A terrorist cell busted by Indian police was planning attacks on leading software firms in Bangalore.
Three men were shot dead and two arrested in southwest Delhi on Saturday. Indian police claim the men were members of Lashkar-e-Toiba – a Wahabi militant group fighting for an independent Kashmir.
Police found documents suggesting the group visited Bangalore in November last year and were finalising arrangements to rent a house there. The group had a detailed map of the offices of one firm, according to the Star of Mysore.
They are armed.
Apart from maps of call centres police also recovered 100 kilos of dynamite, 10.5 kilos of RDX explosive, 450 detonators, three AK-56 rifles and a satellite phone.
These are not amateurs and these are not idiots.
The enemy is intelligently using appropriate means to bring about its desired ends. Lennin, Mao, and Pol Pot both tore their states away from the world. It can happen again.
“Marxism of the Right,” by Robert Locke, American Conservative, 14 March 2005, http://www.amconmag.com/2005_03_14/article1.html (from Right Wing News).
Robert Locke calls Libertarians “the Marxists of the Right”
This is no surprise, as libertarianism is basically the Marxism of the Right. If Marxism is the delusion that one can run society purely on altruism and collectivism, then libertarianism is the mirror-image delusion that one can run it purely on selfishness and individualism. Society in fact requires both individualism and collectivism, both selfishness and altruism, to function. Like Marxism, libertarianism offers the fraudulent intellectual security of a complete a priori account of the political good without the effort of empirical investigation. Like Marxism, it aspires, overtly or covertly, to reduce social life to economics. And like Marxism, it has its historical myths and a genius for making its followers feel like an elect unbound by the moral rules of their society.
Calling libertarians “Marxist” is just as useless as calling writers for the American Conservative “economist leftists with fascist tendencies.” It is just a name that does not move the debate forward. The only point is to demagog. I want comment on Locke’s claim that libertarianism reduces life to economics, but on his deeper confusion:
The most fundamental problem with libertarianism is very simple: freedom, though a good thing, is simply not the only good thing in life. Simple physical security, which even a prisoner can possess, is not freedom, but one cannot live without it. Prosperity is connected to freedom, in that it makes us free to consume, but it is not the same thing, in that one can be rich but as unfree as a Victorian tycoon’s wife. A family is in fact one of the least free things imaginable, as the emotional satisfactions of it derive from relations that we are either born into without choice or, once they are chosen, entail obligations that we cannot walk away from with ease or justice. But security, prosperity, and family are in fact the bulk of happiness for most real people and the principal issues that concern governments.
Locke conflates two different kinds of freedom. When most people say “freedom,” they mean “vertical freedom.” Vertical freedom is “freedom from those above you.” Put another way, it is freedom from state (vertical) power. Most American conservatives care most about vertical freedom.
Horizontal freedom is “freedom from those beside you.” This is freedom from those at the same level as you are — freedom from peers. It is the freedom from the expectations of society and opinions of your fellows. This definition of freedom is often popular with social Marxists.
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