tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post1193365078501904449..comments2024-03-12T04:14:16.271-05:00Comments on The Rad Trad: Always RightThe Rad Tradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-31533170004593662612014-06-23T15:25:22.444-05:002014-06-23T15:25:22.444-05:00It is sort of weird to see highly intelligent men ...It is sort of weird to see highly intelligent men think that their vote actually matters. What makes you think that the powers which control these United States would allow to stand for election any man (and by man I mean Hilary) who could take power from them?<br /><br />On election day, stay home, drink some quality cabernet, and listen to VivaldiMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-36810286369590557492014-06-20T09:20:23.090-05:002014-06-20T09:20:23.090-05:00Terrain of YOUR choosing? Playing in the enemy'...Terrain of YOUR choosing? Playing in the enemy's box not the solution?<br /><br />At least here in the US, short of secession to form a new nation of states or city-states, and a new constitution to go along with them, pray what new box or terrain can you possibly be imagining?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-82917756197067527052014-06-19T09:49:21.698-05:002014-06-19T09:49:21.698-05:00I think we could learn a lesson from good Cicero a...I think we could learn a lesson from good Cicero and acknowledge the virtue in civic duty. We should not only vote for the best candidate available, but run for office, local, and maybe one day national. Or at least strongly support someone who is running that is good. We need to participate more aggressively. T. D. Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09020363012628504691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-49196209562310738202014-06-19T06:43:45.737-05:002014-06-19T06:43:45.737-05:00I supported the 'Stop the War' movement in...I supported the 'Stop the War' movement in the UK and would not consider myself to be in the genre of 'hipster peaceniks'. I would share the view of one of the comments above that BLIar used the opportunity from the worst of motives.<br /><br />The UK's worst foreign policy decision was its role in the establishment of the Israeli state. The treatment of the Palestinians feeds fundamentalism within Islam. Pope Francis' unscheduled stop at the 'other' wall was perhaps the most poignant moment of his recent visit.Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-29527330026986961382014-06-19T06:43:41.438-05:002014-06-19T06:43:41.438-05:00I supported the 'Stop the War' movement in...I supported the 'Stop the War' movement in the UK and would not consider myself to be in the genre of 'hipster peaceniks'. I would share the view of one of the comments above that BLIar used the opportunity from the worst of motives.<br /><br />The UK's worst foreign policy decision was its role in the establishment of the Israeli state. The treatment of the Palestinians feeds fundamentalism within Islam. Pope Francis' unscheduled stop at the 'other' wall was perhaps the most poignant moment of his recent visit.Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-76482767560684083102014-06-18T11:44:07.683-05:002014-06-18T11:44:07.683-05:00"Either invade a country and make it a satell..."Either invade a country and make it a satellite state or leave it alone." Quite. This is true. But elsewhere you say that surge worked and Pres Osama lost it. Could be both. Go in for the long haul if going in. <br />I would probably be a little stronger in support of Israel perhaps on grounds of national self determination - at risk of sounding too Wilsonian (your very worst president apart from the cretin of cool and peanut boy who personally caused the mullahs: the Shah was right). That just leaves the Kurds and the Tamils. Requiescant omnes. <br /><br />Always remember please that Our Lord and Our Lady in their earthly living never set foot in 'Palestine'. They had not then heard the name as it was invented by Rome after AD 70 to call the land something after the revolt. Palestine meant to be Latin cognate with Philistine. They went that far back. But my apologies for my countryman Balfour. What a blockhead.<br /><br />Interesting you say Bush undermined Rumsfeld. Could the plan have worked? No for reasons you mention. <br /><br />Here the friend of a friend insists Blair is war criminal because for him the invasion only functioned to bring him fame he could use to make money out of office. Deaths for money. Straight swap. On that analysis no good could ever come. <br />More recently it was nearly done again in Syria. Invade a small mid East country, removing a secular dictator the saud don't like, hope the moslems will applaud and sit back and get rich. The foreign secretary Hague, a complex and troubled man, plus Cameron who is stupid enough for anything, simply hoped to be as famous as Blair. This time Providence seems to have intervened. How did dictators suddenly get into the West's firing line? We have done business with enough and let Stalin die in his bed...PseudonymousposterJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12026854581183874101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-52426887604017831322014-06-17T21:06:27.281-05:002014-06-17T21:06:27.281-05:00Actually, Jon, abandoning a battlefield to the ene...Actually, Jon, abandoning a battlefield to the enemy is often a wise thing to do if a battle is unwinnable. You withdraw, gather your strength, and wait for an opportunity to face the enemy on terrain of YOUR choosing. That is the difference between a tactician and a strategist.<br /><br />It's a lesson Chiang Kai-Shek never learned.Ecclesial Vigilantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17070187926547373245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-10992940226704376342014-06-17T16:57:38.109-05:002014-06-17T16:57:38.109-05:00Agreed. Take the "gay marriage" debate ...Agreed. Take the "gay marriage" debate for instance, no matter what position you take you are supporting a bastardized Protestant definition of "marriage". Holy Matrimony is above this legal stupidity, and will not be destroyed by it.<br /><br />I still vote, but many times it is out of sheer spite. It doesn't take very long and then I can get back to important things. As a former hopeful idealistic Ron Paul libertarian, I have long given up on "saving" this nation through its broken and rigged electoral process. I will remain a skeptical Quasi-Libertarian Chestertonian Distributist until Roman Empire 2.0 inevitably crumbles under its own weight.Ecclesial Vigilantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17070187926547373245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-27832739104031232562014-06-17T15:54:45.782-05:002014-06-17T15:54:45.782-05:00Playing in the enemy's determined box/system i...Playing in the enemy's determined box/system is also not the solution. As soon as Catholics accepted the enemy's premise (i.e. religious "liberty" and democracy) as a good and a given, the field was long since abandoned to the enemy. Joanneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00496552906164909711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-82421170002728186022014-06-17T13:39:08.830-05:002014-06-17T13:39:08.830-05:00Don't vote, and you're complicit in allowi...Don't vote, and you're complicit in allowing any bulwark - no matter how small - against infanticide, legal sodomy, the destruction of marriage, and the criminalization of Catholicism/Christianity to evaporate.<br /><br />Abandoning the field to the enemy is NOT the solution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-24726711120970752542014-06-17T06:48:30.118-05:002014-06-17T06:48:30.118-05:00"To be American one must support American pri..."To be American one must support American principles and seek to apply them everywhere." But I categorically reject American (classical liberal, masonic) principles (as should every Catholic), both in theory and in practice, and this is why I am now (as of 2013) to the point of not voting at all. The English have the correct view of what constitutes being a constituent member of a given society; call me a New Yorker.<br />Joanneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00496552906164909711noreply@blogger.com