Sadly, I think that too many take our freedom for granted, and are too willing to trade it for government cheese. But I think that the past couple years have seen a reawakening of the principles on which the country was founded, as a backlash against the current political class, which to the degree that it isn’t entirely ignorant of them, seems to hold them in contempt.
Part of that backlash is two promising web sites, debuting today, Declaration Entertainment, and Big Peace, another Breitbart production. I wish them luck in their efforts to help restore the Republic.
Good post, Mr. Simberg. Happy Independence Day to you too.
Happy Independence to you, your family and friends Rand. Thanks for producing such a great blog year after year.
Today, revolutionaries are called “insurgents” and the regular suspension of habeas corpus and disarming of the public goes by the euphemism “counter-insurgency”.. foreign governments, mine and yours, are helping the official government of places like Afghanistan do that to their citizens. We have no treaty with this country. We have no national interests in this country. There’s not even the specter of domino politics. It seems we’re just there because its more effective than having our standing armies exercising at home.
I long for the days when Americans talked about American interests.
I long for the days when Australians thought of Anzac Day as a day to remember mates who died fighting in some else’s war.
“Today, revolutionaries are called “insurgents”…”
Okay Michael Moore, these “insurgents” don’t want freedom, they want a totalitarian religious caliphate.
“There’s not even the specter of domino politics”
Every country in the region that ends in stan and a few that don’t are under this threat.
I’m still trying to figure out when habeus corpus stopped being something that applied to the citizens of one’s own nation…
…or when the Geneva Conventions were rewritten so that those combatants captured on the battlefield disguised as civilians not only could be, but were expected to be, executed as spies and saboteurs, in order to protect the sanctity of said civilians.
Afghanistan is a hard country to rule. The official government has trouble quelling local resistance and for some reason the allied forces are trying to help them.
A US analogy would be the federal government trying to quell dissent and disarm Texas, failing, then bringing in foreign troops to help.