JAG
Banned
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2015
- Messages
- 132
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- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Independent
I am an Independent and not all that pleased with the GOP these days. I tune in to Rush Limbaugh now and then and I watch Fox News a lot and I also enjoy discovering new conservative books because I am a avid reader and collector of conservative articles and books. I try to read widely across the spectrum in conservative publications, books, and websites. I read Patrick Buchanan and Victor Davis Hanson's blogs, the Gatestone Institute articles, and Breitbart, just to give 4 examples among many.
My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:
"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."
The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.
Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.
I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.
Once again, its nice to be here with you.
My most recent good book discovery is Bruce S. Thornton's The Wages Of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, And Obama's America. The first edition was published in 2011 and speaks directly to some of the problems America is now facing. Here are a few thoughts from the flyleaf to give you some idea of what this book is about, and some idea of the kinds of books I enjoy reading:
"The Wages Of Appeasement explores the reasons why a powerful state gives in to aggressors. It tells the story of three historical examples of appeasement: (1) the Greek city-states of the fourth century B.C., which lost their freedom to Philip II of Macedon; (2) England's failure to stop Germany's aggression in the 1920's and 1930's, which resulted in World War II, and (3) the tentative American response to the ongoing Islamic jihad, along with years of timidity in the face of Iran's attacks on the United States."
The author, Bruce Thornton, argues that democracies often fail to pursue long-term interests, rather they go for their short-term interests at the expense of their long-term security. Moreover democracies often give in to idealistic utopian interpretations of human nature "like pacifism or disarmament" and the foolish beliefs that diplomatic solutions can always work successfully and that the so-called "community of nations" such as the United Nations can basically guarantee a peaceful world.
Anyway I am reading heavily in this book at the present time and find it very interesting.
I enjoy classical music such as the Vienna Philharmonic, and I like interesting thought provoking movies such as Avatar and Prometheus.
Once again, its nice to be here with you.