Why does America insist on making Russia their enemy?
Readers remain wary of Russia's presence in Georgia. One took the view that the crisis "is the beginning of a plan to restore the glory of the former Soviet Union." Another wondered, why the "split into smaller, not viable entities?" Added a third, "Russia salvaged its self-respect but should now move out."
Why does America insist on making Russia their enemy?
Coz they are comrade Glenno. Putin fooled dubya, but he is showing his true colors. Funny how they put that oil man in jail and stole his company. I hope oil stays low and Russia starves. Thats one way to skin a bear.
The letters to newsweek show how biased the american media is. What else can you expect from a country that is number 53 in the world in regards to free press. i presonally just read news from American media to have a good laugh. When I speak with american friends I always wonder where the madness comes from, but it cant be easy be informed when living in a propaganda state
The Georgians made the 1st move, regardless of Russian intimidation, Georgia should NEVER have invaded S. Ossetia. Another policy blunder from Condi Rice and Bush, soon they will both be gone. Wat has she accomplished as Sec-State? NOTHING. Good riddance Condi, you were good for NOTHING.
System7, thank you for your response. To some extent, I believe I would concur with your perception, especially with the recent sudden drastic fall of oil and gas prices compounded by the sharp market downturn in Russia.
Nevertheless, Putin will still be trying. He is determined.
(Boon Tee Tan)
Jim Johnson analyzed socialism and capitalism well, providing a useful insight into, and comparing and contrasting the salient features of the two systems.
However, one wonders if capitalism as westerners would see it is really functioning. It only helps to generate endless greed and limitless consumerism. Why not try autocratic capitalism?
(Boon Tee Tan)
Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!
Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.
The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."
Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.
Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.
Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.
Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.
It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.
Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luckbeing in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}
Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.
You post this everywhere. Is it not too hard to copy and paste?
To R.K.Sudan: I think S.Ossetia will not be independent but Abkhazia has good chances to be independent. Abkhazia has a fantastic warm climate and access to the Black Sea.
To Boon Tee Tan: Russia has not enough power to restore the Soviet Union, and Putin understands this. Russia is in Abkhazia and S.Ossetia because it has their full support.
This is no big deal. We will all be okay under the Obama plan to engage the U.N. Security Counsel to sanction Russia. . . . Oh yea, he had to change that when someone educated him of the fact that Russia has a permanent VETO on the U.N. Security Counsel. Oh yea, he is ready to lead.
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