THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN CRUSADES
Let’s play fill-in-the-blanks. In general, Americans and Europeans are Christians. Arabs are Moslems. Indians are Hindus. Chinese are _________? If you have trouble filling in the last blank, it’s because the answer is blank. From time immemorial, the Chinese have been the least religious of any of history’s major civilizations. Daoism, Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism are rationalistic quasi-religions lacking any personal relationship with a transcendent deity or deities. The ancestor- and spirit-worship of Chinese folk religion is individualized to families only.
Why Bush Will Win in 2004
A year from now you and I will be celebrating George W. Bush’s re-election. It’s in the bag, and the reason why is deeper than the economy or Iraq. It’s because GW figured out Bill Clinton’s secret while the Dems forgot it.
Good Vibrations – How Dick Cheney Can Find Saddam’s Hidden Weapons
I love the way President Bush mispronounces the Iraqi dictator’s name: SAH-dum, not sah-DAM. Whereas the latter pronunciation in Arabic means “One Who Confronts,” the former means “Barefoot Beggar.” Be assured that when GW says SAH-dum in his speeches broadcast to the Arabic world, he is doing it on purpose.
The Barefoot Beggar has finally agreed to let in UN inspectors because he is confident he can hide his WMD — weapons of mass destruction — from them. But if GW tells Dick Cheney to give his former colleagues at Halliburton a call about utilizing oil field discovery technology, that
Comprehensive Reading List
TTPer Tom Howard asks:"Can you post a comprehensive, recommended reading list from Dr. Wheeler? Particularly on logic and philosophy?"
The Anti-American Right
Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? It's the Left -- liberals, left-wingers, socialists, commies, pinkos, the Noam Chomskys and Alec Baldwins and Barbra Streisands -- that hates America. But the Right -- good old flag-waving patriotic God Bless America conservatives? How could they possibly be anti-American? It sounds ridiculous.Yet whatever sense or nonsense it makes, Anti-Americanism is seeping into the entire conservative movement and is threatening to splinter it into pieces.
General Boykin’s Fighting Spirit
The latest proposed victim in our struggle against terrorism is Army Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, recently named Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. His mission is to reinvigorate the search for Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and other leaders of global terrorism. By training and experience, he is marvelously prepared for his new duties - having risen from a Delta Force commando to top-secret Joint Special Operations Command, through the CIA, to command of the Army's Special Forces. For a quarter century, he has been fighting terror with his bare hands, his fine mind and his faith-shaped soul.
Feeble Reeds
The vote on the aid package for Iraq and Afghanistan was one of the most significant foreign aid votes in history, ranking up there with the 1941 vote on Lend-Lease for Britain, and the 1948 vote on the Marshall Plan. Had Congress not approved President Roosevelt's plan to give to Britain 50 obsolete American destroyers, the Battle of the Atlantic, and with it, World War II, might well have been lost. Had Congress not approved President Truman's plan for rebuilding Europe (named after his secretary of state, George Marshall), the Cold War might well have been lost. If Congress does not approve President Bush's plan for reconstructing Iraq, the war on terror could well be lost.
Adolf in Malaysia
It is only with the most extreme caution and reluctance that someone making repulsive and racist statements should be labeled a Nazi. Hitler's crimes were so monstrous that most comparisons to them cheapen and insult their horror. Yet there are times when such comparisons are justified and Malaysian leader Mohammed Mahathir's now-infamous speech is one of them.
ARM WRESTLING WITH RUSSIA
It was a gorgeous spring day in Washington D.C. when I got a call from Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). The year was 1995. "Hey, Jack, can you come to my office late this afternoon? The Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and his entourage will be here and I'd like you in on the meeting."
The Osama-Saddam Surprise
Al Jazeera released another audio tape this week, recorded by someone speaking in Arabic and claiming to be Osama Bin Laden. As with such tapes in the past, the CIA reports that it is kinda, almost, and pretty sure that it is OBL's real voice so he must still be alive in a cave somewhere.Well, once again, I'm not buying it. As I've been saying for almost two years now, I think his remains are pulverized under a mountain of rubble in eastern Afghanistan.