tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post114240995122652858..comments2023-10-24T08:33:10.354-04:00Comments on Reformed Leftist (& Friends): Islamic CrusadePaul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142458396074985632006-03-15T16:33:00.000-05:002006-03-15T16:33:00.000-05:00Tom: I'm glad that you're among the 100% of people...Tom: I'm glad that you're among the 100% of people who know about Pan Arabia, but for whom this does not serve as inspiration for a counter-conquest today. Nobody wants to conquer Arabia except one group: the islamicists. <BR/><BR/>Bush and Cheney don't want to conquer them; they want to push history forward to a point where the people there rule their own lives, instead of having dictators rule Paul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142449192208810452006-03-15T13:59:00.000-05:002006-03-15T13:59:00.000-05:00If I had been spending a day writing an article--a...If I had been spending a day writing an article--and procrastinating by posting on this blog--in the 13th century, I hope I would have been denouncing the injustices I saw going on. That Arabs once conquered huge swaths of the globe doesn't make me want to conquer them now. I look at the past and see a graveyard of failed empires, whose rulers behaved with much the same hubris, arrogance, and Tom Philpotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142444450531564682006-03-15T12:40:00.000-05:002006-03-15T12:40:00.000-05:00Then I must have been a "romantic and ignorant lef...Then I must have been a "romantic and ignorant leftist." And indeed I was. <BR/><BR/>I will try to keep in mind that you already possess all those revelations that conspired to move me from the leftist camp. Why, then (as one of many examples I could cite), are you so upset by such things as the "artificial" boundries "imposed by outsiders" in Arabia and Africa, which unify historical enemies andPaul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142442547154621312006-03-15T12:09:00.000-05:002006-03-15T12:09:00.000-05:00Only romantic and ignorant leftists--which I have ...Only romantic and ignorant leftists--which I have no doubt exist in abundance--believe in an Edenic past upset by evil white conquerers. History teaches no easy lessons. I think what the great Gibbon said about the history of religion applies to history in general: "The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A Tom Philpotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.com