In any event, please keep hating America, we’ll keep fighting your wars and providing welfare payments too. America isn’t perfect, but we’re decent people that usually end up doing what’s right and best for everyone involved.

–Remort

Sorry, but playing the stupid card is for people who can’t come up with any better arguments. It’s little more than a kid’s game of “You’re stupid. No, I’m not. Yes, you are. etc.”

I certainly don’t think Roh is stupid (he’s done some stupid things) but incompetent is more the operative word with him.

Back to the original article. It’s the usual leftist elitist position: “Those of us on the coasts are simply smarter than those boobs in the heartland. In fact, they’re not smart enough to deserve the right to vote.” This is their calculus: candidate I agree with = intelligent; candidate I disagree with = shtoopid.

And they are so desperate to believe that calculus, they ignore all evidence to the contrary. John Kerry’s grades at Yale were just like that doofus Dubya’s, but Kerry’s somehow a genius. Suuuure. Get a load of that photo and then talk to me.

America has its own demographic disasters waiting in the wings. Read any Jared Diamond or Chalmers Johnson lately?

Jared Diamond is an engaging, if predictably lefty, light-science writer. Guns, Germs, and Steel was a good read; so was the The Third Chimpanzee. Presumably Why is Sex Fun? is a good book too although I haven’t gotten around to it. Collapse, however, although I anticipated it quite hotly, was a letdown. The subtitle “How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” sets up all kinds of possibilities. But Diamond cannot get past the lefty refrain “Because they cut down all the TREEES!” I’m sure there’s more to it than that, but the author dismisses all other factors. Thus, that book got tiring pretty quickly. I probably should have recognized the symptoms of Diamond’s “America Bad” disease from Guns, Germs, and Steel’s thesis that the supremacy of Western Civilization is all a big mistake. I’m going to give him another chance though.

But who the devil, except for the book-buyers at Kyobo Bookstore’s Noam Chomsky Department, would waste another minute on Chalmers Johnson? Good grief. Since MITI and the Japanese Miracle in 1982 he’s veered away from good scholarship and into crazytown. Although he’s 75 years old and so by rights ought to be dead soon, the guy looks pretty healthy and I fear ten more years of conspiracy theories and “America Bad” thinking from Chalmers Johnson.

China and the world, actually. BRIC is just the start. America has its own demographic disasters waiting in the wings.

The defining difference is that the U.S. has well established financial and other support systems in place; China has no hope of achieving anything near that level of development in that time. Additionally, no Western nation will face anything even remotely similar to the male/female imbalance that China will. I don’t think you recognize the significance of 30 percent of the male population with absolutely zero prospect of marriage in a nation like China. Apples and Oranges.

Yup, and remember that the CIA staff from Clinton’s day warned Dubya something was coming, and he chose to ignore it. Read a good book lately

Who was the CIA director during 9/11, what did he say, and who appointed him, genius?

The EU can defend themselves as well as any, after all the Brits invented the jet engine, and the Germans rockets. And they have nuclear weapons should they ever need them. The Brits, French and Germans having already presided over,lost, and learned the basic lessons of empire - overextension will lead to collapse. No economy = no military = buh-bye Empire. Oh well, you’ll learn the hard way I guess.

Aren’t you the one who stated the futility of living on past accomplishments? Like inventing jet engines and rockets? Inconsistent, if not hypocritical.

Your arguments are ridiculous, aside from the German/French economic angle (which is more hilarious); why you want to argue against such a well-known and established fact as Europe’s relative militarily inferiority is beyond me. Do a little research rather than spouting what you prefer to be true. If nukes are what you mean, then I guess Russia’s military is equal to America’s, which is equally ridiculous.

Confucious say, Using many letters to impress man is like using many millimeters to impress his wife. Still, I betcha Dubya cain’t spell that doozy!

Uh, ‘Floccinaucinihilipilification’ is one of those very well know, often used ‘many letter’ed words.

Follow the ‘The Korea Liberator’ pingback below to the refutation of your Europe delusions, including ridiculous assertions about ‘progressive’ taxes, etc.

Off to the airport . . .

The US economy has created millions of jobs in the last few years and the employment rate is lower than the average of the last few decades.

“Read any Jared Diamond or Chalmers Johnson lately?”

Diamond sounds interesting, but I don’t think I’d bother with such leftist drivel from Chalmers Johnson.

“I’d start with massive investment in the education system, universal health care, diversification of industries, job-skills training, daycare, and progressive taxation to help pay for it.”

Uh, the US already has almost all of these things and spends a major amount of money on them, besides nearly universal healthcare and no national daycare. How is pouring massive more piles of money into these areas going to help? We can already see what such policies have wrought in Europe-stagnant economies, high unemployment, rigid labor markets and excessively high taxes on a decreasing number of workers. No thanks.