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Allan from Fallbrook
Participantmarion: Well, given my high school days, I am all FOR birth control! Kidding aside, I am for birth control. I think a lot of issues the world over could be better handled in conjunction with an easily accessible contraception program, and one that works with targeted education about hygiene, child care and disease prevention. I know that puts me squarely at odds with the Mother Church on the subject, but so be it. On certain issues, the Catholic Church needs to come out of the Middle Ages (or Dark Ages, as the case may be).
And, yeah, the Jesuit in me has a real problem with the death penalty. Nothing better than state sponsored murder, in my opinion.
Participantmarion: Well, given my high school days, I am all FOR birth control! Kidding aside, I am for birth control. I think a lot of issues the world over could be better handled in conjunction with an easily accessible contraception program, and one that works with targeted education about hygiene, child care and disease prevention. I know that puts me squarely at odds with the Mother Church on the subject, but so be it. On certain issues, the Catholic Church needs to come out of the Middle Ages (or Dark Ages, as the case may be).
And, yeah, the Jesuit in me has a real problem with the death penalty. Nothing better than state sponsored murder, in my opinion.
Participantmarion: Well, given my high school days, I am all FOR birth control! Kidding aside, I am for birth control. I think a lot of issues the world over could be better handled in conjunction with an easily accessible contraception program, and one that works with targeted education about hygiene, child care and disease prevention. I know that puts me squarely at odds with the Mother Church on the subject, but so be it. On certain issues, the Catholic Church needs to come out of the Middle Ages (or Dark Ages, as the case may be).
And, yeah, the Jesuit in me has a real problem with the death penalty. Nothing better than state sponsored murder, in my opinion.
Participantgandalf: I would agree that our post-9/11 strategy leaves a lot to be desired. In truth, though, our “pre” 9/11 strategy (the 50 years prior) weren’t so hot, either.
I would ascribe our foreign policy failures to two things: The “balance of power”/USSR containment strategy, and our support of colonial powers like France and Great Britain, and the post-colonial nightmares they spawned. All of the seeds of our present distress were sown in those times, and as a result of those strategies and policies.
You need look no further than a picture of FDR with ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia near the close of WWII to see what direction things were heading in. Or our support of de Gaulle (because we wanted France in NATO) and his little Indochinese adventure.
George Washington was right on the money regarding foreign entanglements. Problem is, how do we get the oil, raw and finished goods, etc to our shores without them?
Participantgandalf: I would agree that our post-9/11 strategy leaves a lot to be desired. In truth, though, our “pre” 9/11 strategy (the 50 years prior) weren’t so hot, either.
I would ascribe our foreign policy failures to two things: The “balance of power”/USSR containment strategy, and our support of colonial powers like France and Great Britain, and the post-colonial nightmares they spawned. All of the seeds of our present distress were sown in those times, and as a result of those strategies and policies.
You need look no further than a picture of FDR with ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia near the close of WWII to see what direction things were heading in. Or our support of de Gaulle (because we wanted France in NATO) and his little Indochinese adventure.
George Washington was right on the money regarding foreign entanglements. Problem is, how do we get the oil, raw and finished goods, etc to our shores without them?
Participantgandalf: I would agree that our post-9/11 strategy leaves a lot to be desired. In truth, though, our “pre” 9/11 strategy (the 50 years prior) weren’t so hot, either.
I would ascribe our foreign policy failures to two things: The “balance of power”/USSR containment strategy, and our support of colonial powers like France and Great Britain, and the post-colonial nightmares they spawned. All of the seeds of our present distress were sown in those times, and as a result of those strategies and policies.
You need look no further than a picture of FDR with ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia near the close of WWII to see what direction things were heading in. Or our support of de Gaulle (because we wanted France in NATO) and his little Indochinese adventure.
George Washington was right on the money regarding foreign entanglements. Problem is, how do we get the oil, raw and finished goods, etc to our shores without them?
Participantgandalf: I would agree that our post-9/11 strategy leaves a lot to be desired. In truth, though, our “pre” 9/11 strategy (the 50 years prior) weren’t so hot, either.
I would ascribe our foreign policy failures to two things: The “balance of power”/USSR containment strategy, and our support of colonial powers like France and Great Britain, and the post-colonial nightmares they spawned. All of the seeds of our present distress were sown in those times, and as a result of those strategies and policies.
You need look no further than a picture of FDR with ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia near the close of WWII to see what direction things were heading in. Or our support of de Gaulle (because we wanted France in NATO) and his little Indochinese adventure.
George Washington was right on the money regarding foreign entanglements. Problem is, how do we get the oil, raw and finished goods, etc to our shores without them?
Participantgandalf: I would agree that our post-9/11 strategy leaves a lot to be desired. In truth, though, our “pre” 9/11 strategy (the 50 years prior) weren’t so hot, either.
I would ascribe our foreign policy failures to two things: The “balance of power”/USSR containment strategy, and our support of colonial powers like France and Great Britain, and the post-colonial nightmares they spawned. All of the seeds of our present distress were sown in those times, and as a result of those strategies and policies.
You need look no further than a picture of FDR with ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia near the close of WWII to see what direction things were heading in. Or our support of de Gaulle (because we wanted France in NATO) and his little Indochinese adventure.
George Washington was right on the money regarding foreign entanglements. Problem is, how do we get the oil, raw and finished goods, etc to our shores without them?
Participantmarion: I’m slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. I do differ from mainstream Republicans on abortion (pro-choice) and the death penalty (against it).
Participantmarion: I’m slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. I do differ from mainstream Republicans on abortion (pro-choice) and the death penalty (against it).
Participantmarion: I’m slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. I do differ from mainstream Republicans on abortion (pro-choice) and the death penalty (against it).
Participantmarion: I’m slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. I do differ from mainstream Republicans on abortion (pro-choice) and the death penalty (against it).
Participantmarion: I’m slightly to the right of Attila the Hun. I do differ from mainstream Republicans on abortion (pro-choice) and the death penalty (against it).
Participantmarion: I think those extra seven minutes reading in the children’s classroom were probably taken up with muddling through the “hard words”.
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