Monday, April 06, 2009
A video reminder about Defense
I am certain that this campaign video has previously been linked to from this blog, or perhaps even embedded. Nonetheless, it is only a minute long, and may serve as a reminder of the candidate's position on missile defense and other national security matters.
6 Comments:
By 
Dan Kauffman, at
Mon Apr 06, 08:34:00 PM:
Yes I know where you stand, unilateral surrender, you must be a disciple of Gandhi
The Limits of 'Turn the Other Cheek'
In 1940, when Hitler was scoring victory after victory throughout Europe, Gandhi addressed the following advice to the soldiers of Great Britain: "I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions.... If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourselves, man, woman, and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them."
Two years earlier, in the months before World War II began, Gandhi reacted to the outrage of the Nazi-inspired Kristalnacht (the national pogrom of November 9 to 10, 1938) by offering the following advice to German Jews for overcoming Nazi anti-Semitism: "I am as certain as I am dictating these words that the stoniest German heart will melt [if only the Jews] . adopt active nonviolence. Human nature ... unfailingly responds to the advances of love. I do not despair of his [Hitler's] responding to human suffering even though caused by him
By TigerHawk, at
Mon Apr 06, 09:08:00 PM:
Well, we cannot say we weren't warned.
By 
, at
Mon Apr 06, 09:22:00 PM:
Because somebody's gotta point out the obvious, dammit, I will point out that Ghandi judged the limits of turn the other cheek right down to the farthing. You are playing a long game if you can persuade your enemy to lay down his weapons after he's won.
By TigerHawk, at
Mon Apr 06, 11:04:00 PM:
Ghandi was right about the British and wrong about the Germans.
By , at
Mon Apr 06, 11:15:00 PM:
I'd be inclined to say he was right about the British, who (again) he judged to a nicety, and couldn't have cared less about the Germans. Nor should he have: the Germans were a British problem, not a Ghandi problem. You don't seriously think he was expecting the British to take up his offer, do you?
By , at
Tue Apr 07, 11:11:00 AM:
President Obama doesn't want to be able to defend the United States from countries like Russian, North Korea and Iran. Why?
And why cut military spending but spend trillions on "community organizers"? I can tell you from experience, after you have no more community, there isn't much reason to organizing.
