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Skriven 2007-05-12 18:21:35 av Josh Hill (855.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: unions
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On Sat, 12 May 2007 21:51:27 GMT, "Vorlonagent"
<nojtspam@otfresno.com> wrote:

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>"Josh Hill" <usereplyto@gmail.com> wrote in message=20
>news:1k5c435r5kvsei73a1j0ntq4ut4veoes7d@4ax.com...
>On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:53:18 -0400, "John W. Kennedy"
><jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote:
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>>Josh Hill wrote:
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>>It is an unfortunate fact that the end of the Roman Republic came at th=
e
>>hands of a populist leader. It is also an unfortunate fact that the
>>Republicans are looking more and more like the Optimates, and that the
>>hundred or so years of war that President Monkey has, in all likelihood=
,
>>committed us to stands all too good a chance of producing another Caesa=
r.
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>The safeguards are already weakened or gone. I don't know that Bush is
>Pompey in that regard, but the fact that Congress can't end a war over
>the Executive's objection is not a good sign.
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>Not much of any sign.
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>A closely divided congress can't override a presidential veto.  It's tha=
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>simple and that lack-of-ominous.  You're running afoul of the seaparatio=
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>powers and the intended limits placed on congress by the Framers.

Congress needs only a simple majority to end a war by refusing to
allocate funds. That Congress cannot do that out of fear of populist
demagoguery is, well, scary, because it means that so much power has
shifted to the executive that the checks and balances and the
safeguards that were put in place after the Vietnam War illustrated
the dangers of the imperial presidency no longer function.

>When the will to fight is gone, when everybody would prefer to lie back =
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>let someone else do the work, then there's a problem.  That will is=20
>currently dorwning in liability lawsuits and overconcern for an enemy th=
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>has none for us.
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>When we get to the bread and circuses point, then there's a problem.

It's not about the will to fight: I doubt that there was a man, woman,
or poodle here who wouldn't have taken up arms after 9/11 had it been
necessary. Rather, it's about a botched, senseless, unwinnable mistake
of a war in a country that was never a threat to us, one that is
taking Iraqi and American lives, one that neither the Iraqi nor the
American people want us to be involved in, one that is strengthening
Al Qaeda rather than weakening it, one that has made us more hated
throughout the world than countries like China and North Korea, one
that has, in the words of Colin Powell, almost broken the army.

--=20
Josh

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths,
and how many, what day it=92s going to happen, and=20
how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean,
it=92s, it=92s not relevant. So, why should I waste my=20
beautiful mind on something like that?" - Barbara Bush
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