Winterclaw opened this issue on Oct 09, 2008 · 105 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 4:05 PM
Quote - As for not negotiating with brutal dictators, I've never been much interested in philosophical or ideological distinctions in argumentation. If it can't deal with reality, it can't deal. Period.
Yeah -- that's all true......like the 'reality' of a 'grand right-wing conspiracy' to take over the world via religious institutions. Now that's what I call "dealing with reality".
Quote - Find me any right-winger anywhere who will swear that he would not be willing to so negotiate if he believed that the price of armed conflict was unacceptable and that the national security interest (or even massive amounts of wealth) were at stake.
In other words, any ideological point in argumentation is pointless rhetoric if even its most fervent adherents, in certain contexts, would be more than eager to make massive exceptions.
Yet again -- miss the point totally. There are political necessities, and there is the underlying awareness of the fact that a tiger can't change his stripes. The current left believes that tigers can be dressed up in sheep's wool. And that is isn't in the nature of the tiger to eat them.