Tuesday, May 03, 2005
The Tanuki's On A Roll -- (and pay no attention to that Leftist gnome behind the curtain)
An excellent post at the Tanuki Ramble can be found here, regarding the Vietnam War and some current appraisals.
The Tanuki's style and professionalism places him in a far better league than my own and he's been currently on a roll in this regard. Also, check out this interesting link found by the Tanuki.
At the risk of being a bit "confrontational," I'm going to note the Tanuki's comments section as well. In virtually all of his -- excellent -- posts you will find a certain "K.B." character who is clearly infuriated that the Tanuki and people like me hold the views we do. I point this out since his obsessive concern with "American Crimes" is so characteristic of what we on the libertarian right deal with regularly. In all honesty he, and the cliché type he represents,are smart, well read, and willing to spend bizarre amounts of time posting links and quotes to prove the worthiness of their obsessive anti-U.S. stance.
I'll have a post up soon discussing why I hate tangling with such types. They'd like to think it's simply because they've somehow "won" their argument and we've run off unable to support our, "mean-spirited, greedy, selfish, capitalist, fascist" view in support of smaller and less centralized government. And of course there's the problem (to them) of us liking the US and preferring it to Communist dictatorships.
Enough for now...
The Tanuki's style and professionalism places him in a far better league than my own and he's been currently on a roll in this regard. Also, check out this interesting link found by the Tanuki.
At the risk of being a bit "confrontational," I'm going to note the Tanuki's comments section as well. In virtually all of his -- excellent -- posts you will find a certain "K.B." character who is clearly infuriated that the Tanuki and people like me hold the views we do. I point this out since his obsessive concern with "American Crimes" is so characteristic of what we on the libertarian right deal with regularly. In all honesty he, and the cliché type he represents,are smart, well read, and willing to spend bizarre amounts of time posting links and quotes to prove the worthiness of their obsessive anti-U.S. stance.
I'll have a post up soon discussing why I hate tangling with such types. They'd like to think it's simply because they've somehow "won" their argument and we've run off unable to support our, "mean-spirited, greedy, selfish, capitalist, fascist" view in support of smaller and less centralized government. And of course there's the problem (to them) of us liking the US and preferring it to Communist dictatorships.
Enough for now...
