Thursday, October 17, 2002

[Colin Glassey 3:30 PM] I just found Eric Raymond's Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto. Wow. I agree with it 100%. I love this line: WE ARE MEMBERS OF A CIVILIZATION, and we hold that civilization to be worth defending. We have not sought war, but we will fight it to the end. We will fight for our civilization in our thoughts, in our words, and in our deeds. I'm with this. I am with this. Thanks to Steve Den Beste (AKA: USS Clueless) for pointing this out emphatically and for his essays over the last six months. 3:22:49 PM     [Colin Glassey 2:30 PM] Lots of great essays today. Say "YES" To War On Iraq by Dan Savage. The main points: Attacking Iraq is a something that liberals ought to approve of because Hussein is a tyrant who opposes everyone's freedom but his own (a Liberal cause one might THINK). Also, Dan Savage points out that attacking and defeating nations does not always, or even often, create more terrorists, see many historical examples (Germany, Japan, Serbia, etc.). A Prize for Peace by Michael Kelley is an attack on President Carter's Nobel Peace Prize. Now, I like President Carter based on his life's history and I think he is a deserving winner. But as the essay points out, Carter's REAL accomplishments over the last 22 years in the quest for peace pale in comparison to recent United States presidents. The bottom line is that U.S. military power over the last 20 years has done more good than all vote monitoring and peace negoition sessions which Carter has been working hard on. So why does Carter get a Peace Prize while Reagan, Bush (41), Clinton, and Bush (43) haven't? Is vote monitoring really more important than preventing ethnic cleansing (Clinton in Kosova) or more important the freeing Afghanistan from the Taliban (Bush - 43)? Glenn Reynolds (of InstaPundit fame) writes a suggestive essay in which he argues that better armed people are less likely to suffer from genocide. While three examples (Cambodia, Rawanda, and the Congo) does not make for a great data set I think there is merit to his idea that the right to own a gun should be considered a basic human right. Michael Medved has an eye-opening essay on a recent Fatwa which condems a playwrite to death for a recent work of his. Ho hum you say, just another example of Islamic facsism coming out of Iran. But no, this was a fatwa issued by the Shari'ah Court of the United Kingdom. Feel free to draw the correct conclusion about how the Islamic religion is one of peace. Link obtains through The Volokh Conspiracy and then Clayton Cramer's Blog. 2:11:06 PM

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