tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post4888805889235257454..comments2024-03-28T13:10:44.555-04:00Comments on Iliocentrism: A Time for ChoosingIlíonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-9857657352962592912009-06-07T21:24:55.585-04:002009-06-07T21:24:55.585-04:00Mark Steyn, in "Dutch Courage" touches o...Mark Steyn, in "<a href="http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2129/30/" rel="nofollow">Dutch Courage</a>" touches on the pervasive defeatism I was talking about.<br /><br />====<br />This post brought to you by "pests."<br /><br />That is, the word verification for the post was the word "pests," and I thought that amusing enough to mention.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-42452203004351283952009-06-07T21:16:39.066-04:002009-06-07T21:16:39.066-04:00SE:
Reagan believed that the Soviet Empire would c...SE:<br />Reagan believed that the Soviet Empire would collapse, had to collapse, because the immorality of its oppressive style was so utterly at odds with what Reagan called man's natural yearning for freedom. However, unlike his predecessors, he had no qualms stating those ideas publically. The fact that the leader of the United States would say unequivocally that we would confront the James Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06715293983358801138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-71465916258160853302009-06-07T12:43:02.712-04:002009-06-07T12:43:02.712-04:00I did use quote-marks on the word.
No, of course ...I did use quote-marks on the word.<br /><br />No, of course it was there was no inevitability to us surrendering to the Soviets ... but the people running the country gave every indication of believing that we would and that there was no possibility that we would not, and that we shouldn't even try not to.<br /><br />Disagree with Reagan on *many* things? That doesn't compute.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-38770190928956161342009-06-07T12:23:04.893-04:002009-06-07T12:23:04.893-04:00I wasn't old enough to vote in 1980, but I was...I wasn't old enough to vote in 1980, but I was around, and at the time wanted Reagan to win the election. <br /><br />In later years I would come to disagree with Reagan on many things, but I've always believed he really cared about, believed in and valued America's founding principles...and he was certainly better, in many respects, than the person occupying the White House now. <Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991410496107221875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-45383140262155710682009-06-07T05:02:08.426-04:002009-06-07T05:02:08.426-04:00I had been just a kid, so I'm pretty sure hadn...I had been just a kid, so I'm pretty sure hadn't even heard of Ronald Reagan until he ran against Carter (and, thank God, trounced him) in 1980.<br /><br />I *might* have become aware of him when he ran against Ford (who was the sitting president at the time) for the Republican nomination in 1976. And, since the GOP ran Ford, the nation ended up with Carter.<br /><br />In any event, in Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-13792447772962060112009-06-07T03:25:42.255-04:002009-06-07T03:25:42.255-04:00Definitely a man, and i have to say, the fellow cu...Definitely a man, and i have to say, the fellow currently running America is going in the exact opposite direction. Sad thing is, he was voted in, he didn't take it, it was given to him.<br /><br />Reagan was right about America being the last stand, the last hope, the last refuge for the oppressed. So many in the western world have worked to undermine that, one day they will get what they MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-75933326405072596652009-06-06T22:47:01.015-04:002009-06-06T22:47:01.015-04:00Not only was he a great man, but he *was* a man .....Not only was he a great man, but he *was* a man ... in contrast to the passive-aggressive "meterosexuals" so common today.Ilíonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15339406092961816142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479830240587990195.post-70880777901921667022009-06-06T20:59:57.670-04:002009-06-06T20:59:57.670-04:00Smoking good stuff.
Wow. I don't recall ev...Smoking good stuff. <br /><br />Wow. I don't recall ever hearing him speak during his younger days (back in the sixties). He doesn't flinch. He doesn't pull a punch. He just hits you square on, without apology. I like him.<br /><br />Hmmm. I think I see why you might gravitate to Mr. Reagan.James Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06715293983358801138noreply@blogger.com