by Jon B:
I may perhaps at times have mentioned my ongoing worries about transnational progressivism and its drive to undermine the nation state in the name of some global constitutional order. This is a good sign of what we can expect more of until such time as the EU and/or UN collapse, since they are the sites of a good deal of it.
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It is not to be taken lightly. I do not think Americans realize how thoroughly much of our legal establishment, for instance, has thrown in with this perspective. You occasionally see items about Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Steven Breyer making references to international conventions, values, judicial proceedings and cases in some of their decisions. It's worse than that. These people are the elites, not the rag-tag alienated of the Arab street.
Don't you just love the utopian hubris: German law provides for "universal jurisdiction." Seems to me, some guy over there tried that already once several decades back, but what the heck do I know.
I am sure the Germans waited to get a Democratic Congress and for Rummy to leave office to try this breathtaking invasion of US sovereignty, but believe me sovereignty itself is in their sites. In some ways, the goo-goos of the UN, EU and the NGO networks are totally in sync with the terrorists in their hostility to the nation state. All this will be with us as long as terrorism itself, and we better get ready to take it on.
--Jon
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OK, Jon. It is good to have you back. But as an historian, you are not going to avoid the implication of domestic current events by focusing on the transgressions of others, and harking back to past world calamaties originating in Europe rather than focusing on the one hatching right here. The nation state would be in a bit better repute if the current rulers of the presumably most powerful nation state had been a bit more respectful of its precepts: (1) Don't lie to the people. Eventually, they find out about it, and then they grow to resent it. (2) Go to war with the army you need, not the army you have, or do not go to war at all, and go in with overwhelming force-- My God, despite all the lecturing by ourselves and by our military about the lessons of Vietnam, how in heck did we ignore them? That is the most amazing thing to me: We repeated history in one generation! For the President to tell us all this would be tough but then not to have the courage to call for a draft and taxes to cover the cost. Uh-uh. So, you can see why people like me, who were and are in favor of a well conceived adventure in taming the Islamofascist beast, finally had to vote the straight Democratic ticket. Not that that will make anything better. But it was only going to get worse, for sure, with this pig-headed approach of Bush, Rumsfield and the rest of the same crowd who brought us "spend more to make more." Sure.
The debate may be good for us, over here.
You'll be pleased to see Holmes back in the columns, below. I am hoping that now that he and his ilk are in the ascendancy, that he will deign to beard the neocons in their den. I certainly think that the nightly news will be more lively with Nancy Pelosi --the anti-Newt -- in charge of the House. Every nightmare for the Republicans coming true, including Bill heading back to the White House. My, my.
--Dave B.
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