In Reply to: it's not a game posted by DC Warrior on 2012-04-13 11:22:03
come here know more about their past plight than we do. While we sit fat, dumb, and happy they warn us all the time about what could happen if we're not careful.
Since when has our foreign policy been based on the experiences of people who have fled here? Especially now, we pretty much know what's going on everywhere.
Why wouldn't we sympathize with someone who had it so bad that they decided that floating across shark-infested waters in an inner tube was worth the risk?
I don't understand the use of the Lenin/Stalin analogy. Anyone under either of them was bad off. So? People are bad off under Castro, and if his successor is anything like him, they'll be bad off under him as well.
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." -Thomas Paine
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
- DC Warrior 2012-04-13 07:23:26 (105 views)
