Monday, January 24, 2005
SUPERPOWER II
UPDATE on my previous post.
In response to The Times, John Mark Reynolds gives 5 reasons why the USA is not doomed! The entire response is an excellent and optimistic read, but here's the best part by far:
In response to The Times, John Mark Reynolds gives 5 reasons why the USA is not doomed! The entire response is an excellent and optimistic read, but here's the best part by far:
The Times writer has confused our love of comfort with softness, but in doing so he makes the mistake that Sauron made of the hobbits. We are comfortable, because it is sensible to prefer comfort to hardship when you can have it, but we are fierce fighters in a pinch. If needs must, we can still rouse ourselves to great deeds. [Emph. added]I'm feeling much better now. Yes. We are the Hobbits. Wait a minute, I thought the Brits were Hobbits and Americans were the Eagles?
