Existential Fret
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Megan McArdle has a useful summary of the reasons that terrorism is not an “existential threat” to the United States. My call-out:
America is an Experiment. Need Feedback.
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an anti-AOTP book: The Predator State by Galbraith Jr.
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Pour Your Misery Down on Me
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Who would Hayek vote for if he were alive today?
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Megan McArdle has a useful summary of the reasons that terrorism is not an “existential threat” to the United States. My call-out:
Okay Frank Gaffney, you want your chance to soil your sheets, Leonidas-style, over the silent and perhaps at this point irreversible Islamofascist conquest of America? You don’t need to resort to fantasizing about Muslim sovereign fund managers putting a hex on their bond issues, or, I don’t know, doing a universal find and replace of “New York” for “London” in whatever Melanie Phillips wrote this week. You don’t need to make up anything at all. Because it turns out that the most cunningly disguised Islamofascist sleeper cell ever has just planted the bloody banner of the false prophet Mahound and his demonic minions in a courtroom a mere stone’s throw from the Capitol: (more…)
The Islamofascists can’t force America to submit to Islamofascism by military means, nor can they do it by strategic breeding (the latter only works in Europe). So we can probably breathe a sigh of relief since, hey, even as the new caliphate stretches from Khorasan to Portugal, it won’t be claiming any new world colonies any time soon. Right? Wrong. As Frank Gaffney explains, those endlessly clever Islamofascists have schemed a way to force God’s own country to heed the call of the minaret by conquering our financial markets: (more…)