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POPSEconomics, Politics, News (05/24/11) I fully embrace the maxim (which . . . borrows from a Christian) that 'all power corrupts.' I would go further. The loftier the pretensions of the power, the more meddlesome, inhuman, and oppressive it will be. Theocracy is the worst of all possible governments. All political power is at best a necessary evil: but it is least evil when its sanctions are most modest and commonplace, when it claims no more than to be useful or convenient and sets itself strictly limited objectives. Anything transcendental or spiritual, or even anything very strongly ethical, in its pretensions is dangerous and encourages it to meddle with our private lives. Let the shoemaker stick to his last. Thus the Renaissance doctrine of Divine Right is for me a corruption of monarchy; Rousseau’s General Will, of democracy; racial mysticisms, of nationality. And Theocracy, I admit and even insist, is the worst corruption of all. -- C.S. Lewis, "The World's Last Night."
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POPSWhy Libya and Why NOTHING when Iran needed help? This is the first thought I had when I heard they were going to start bombing now (waaaayt late of course, so many rebels have already died waiting for the Golfer in Chief to make a decision) Sickening..... Remember Neda? The prisons are still full of Iranians who tried their best to fight the horrendous theocracy in Iran....and Obama ATE ICE CREAM and did NOTHING.
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POPSFINALLY, SOME COMMON SENSE PREVAILS M. Zudhi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, said that the failure to address this brand of Islam and to encourage American Muslims to embrace the rights and liberties guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution is affecting those individuals who not only turn against their country but commit acts of violence against their fellow citizens.“We’ve surrendered the Constitution to the jihadists,” Jasser told the House Homeland Security Committee, focusing on the causes of radicalization of American Muslims and the response of Muslim communities to that radicalization. “Our founding principle is that I, as a Muslim, am able to best practice my faith in a society like the United States that guarantees the rights of every individual blind to faith, with no governmental intermediary stepping between the individual and the creator to interpret the will of God,” Jasser said in his opening statement.
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POPS What’s the Matter with Egypt? by Victor Davis Hanson
A Gaddafi or Saddam or a Saudi prince on the sly turned a blind eye to jihadists, or funded them, or in some ways subsidized them — on the condition that they embodied popular outrage but diverted it from Middle Eastern authoritarians to Americans and Israelis. The more “friendly” and “pro-Western” (and the Saudis and the Pakistanis were the past masters at this) would then come to us, deplore terrorism, promise to crack down on it, but also insist that their own thugocracies and kleptocracies were the only fingers in the dike that held back the flood of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Iranian-like theocracy, etc.. Ergo, we were to give money or support or both to those that two-timed us, on the premise that the alternative was surely worse. And the Response is? I think the American response was usually over the decades twofold: One, we were to sigh, “Well, Mubarak’s an SOB but he at least is ours and not sending out terrorists to blow up Americans in Lebanon ...
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