Oh, I'm strictly a public library checker-outer - as I'm currently a mostly dispossessed American Indian. That doesn't mean I can't bust out a decent quatrain or two on occasion, though lol.
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You know, honestly I think the American public is more sophisticated than it seems. (Despite frequently voting against their, or anybody else's best interests) The thing is, and this is what I find truly terrible, is because Americans inherently WANT to do the right thing that they tend to trust the words of politicians whom use, in particular, behavioral science techniques to trigger a most fervid self-reward instinct. They're exploited. It's why so much money is spent on saturation mind-bombing.
Well, this is nothing but the ongoing incoherence from Team Romney. And that means just two things: They possess no real comprehension of the world. And, they have no foreign policy. Period.
That's extremely dangerous.
No real comprehender of world affairs would tend to rely mostly or solely on military logic; it certainly generates the perception of an inherently weak or even counterfeit leadership. That's one of the great powers of a genuine democracy. Just foreign policy from a contitution-based democratic republic needs to, by definition, originate and be sustained solely by civil diplomatic bodies. One has to be up to the intellectual task of understanding, say, Milton's words on liberty, among other teachers.
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"Morsi just announced that he would have two vice presidents, a woman and a Copt.
That's amazing. Wonderful.
I've read most of your suggested reading, Professor Cole, but your book "Engaging the Muslim World" has been problematic to obtain, I'm not sure why. But thank you for providing authentic voices.
Oh, I'm strictly a public library checker-outer - as I'm currently a mostly dispossessed American Indian. That doesn't mean I can't bust out a decent quatrain or two on occasion, though lol.
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You know, honestly I think the American public is more sophisticated than it seems. (Despite frequently voting against their, or anybody else's best interests) The thing is, and this is what I find truly terrible, is because Americans inherently WANT to do the right thing that they tend to trust the words of politicians whom use, in particular, behavioral science techniques to trigger a most fervid self-reward instinct. They're exploited. It's why so much money is spent on saturation mind-bombing.
Well, this is nothing but the ongoing incoherence from Team Romney. And that means just two things: They possess no real comprehension of the world. And, they have no foreign policy. Period.
That's extremely dangerous.
No real comprehender of world affairs would tend to rely mostly or solely on military logic; it certainly generates the perception of an inherently weak or even counterfeit leadership. That's one of the great powers of a genuine democracy. Just foreign policy from a contitution-based democratic republic needs to, by definition, originate and be sustained solely by civil diplomatic bodies. One has to be up to the intellectual task of understanding, say, Milton's words on liberty, among other teachers.
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"Morsi just announced that he would have two vice presidents, a woman and a Copt.
That's amazing. Wonderful.
I've read most of your suggested reading, Professor Cole, but your book "Engaging the Muslim World" has been problematic to obtain, I'm not sure why. But thank you for providing authentic voices.