And A Geek Shall Lead Us?
There is something seriously wrong when the most realistic, rational commentary on our Nation’s future is coming from a science fiction writer. Here Orson Scott Card discussing Solzhenitsyn offers a warning call we all would be very foolish to ignore.
Solzhenitsyn saw what we seem determined to ignore: Power is fleeting, and so is freedom. The “world’s only superpower” can only maintain the current world order if it acts with courage and vigor to stop the enemies of freedom and prosperity. The great network of trade that creates the prosperity of our nation and the rest of the world rests entirely on the Pax Americana that is enforced by American arms and American honor. The mad views of our intellectual elite are a luxury that is utterly dependent on our incredible prosperity and on the freedom enforced by the American military. The self-discipline and sacrifice of our soldiers are treated with disdain by the very people who seek to have the control of them.
Obama doesn’t even have the courage to admit that he was wrong about Iraq, and that his long-touted plan to withdraw from Iraq immediately was insanely self-destructive all along. Now he adopts exactly the position that President Bush has always had, and pretends that he has not changed his mind.
Read this http://www.ornery.org/cgi-bin/printer_friendly.cgi?page=/essays/warwatch/2008-08-10-1.html and if you still think a President Obama wouldn’t be so bad, you need to lie down in a dark, quiet room for a while.
