Comments on: Peace and Money

By: pmp

pmp — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:21:32 +0000

Adam Smith once said,

Little else is requisite to carry a state
to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a
tolerable administration of justice.

Now, Adam Smith is no Chris Rock, but still.

All of these things, especially the third, require the exertion of vast numbers of people, not just one, and certainly not just the President.

Presidents are important, yes. Presidents are not magic, no.

By: pmp

pmp — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:21:32 +0000

By: bjk

bjk — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:24:48 +0000

CR forgets “saving the third world via mass immigration.” Idealism dies hard . . .

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:55:18 +0000

“Mild error about Clinton’s record of peace aside”

Clinton exited us from another disastrous Bush folly in Somalia and led a successful NATO coalition against genocide in Yugoslavia. Iraq was kept in check. Most people consider that good stewardship.

By: Cool Cal

Cool Cal — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:30:59 +0000

Will Wilkinson and Kerry Howley are officially the new Power Couple of 2009.

First order of business … Relinquish your power!

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:11:51 +0000

As someone once said (I don't know whom, and don't care to look it up, as it hardly matters), "Peace requires two parties. War requires only one."

It's very difficult to have the President's "job" be "peace" without either:

a) Meaning "peace" in a way almost certainly contrary to Rock's use or
b) Causing immense long-term (and possibly short-term) harm to the nation and the world.