The Ponderosa: That ISG "report"

Death before Dhimmitude

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Saturday, December 09, 2006

That ISG "report"

So, Iran is arming and training the "insurgents" yet it has no interest in seeing the Iraq Project fail?

Further, we are supposed to engage Iran, Syria and every other crackpot regime in the region in talks?

And exclude Israel?

Reminds us why we haven't missed Jim Baker.

Howz it that every bipartisan panel/commission includes weak as water Republicans?

The Ponderosa

Saturday, December 09, 2006

That ISG "report"

Available from The Virginia City Trading Post . . .

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