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Moral Equivalency

Posted by Jyalai on Monday, July 24, 2006 5:48:41 PM
I was just listening to Sean Hannity.  He had David Horowitz and a liberal journalist, Robert Dreyfuss, to debate the current conflict in Isreal and its origins.  What a debate! 

I was surprised that Robert cited the fact that the rest of the world is against Israel and the US to support his position that Israel and the US are wrong.  Let's take a quick look at what countries are against Israel in this fight.

Russia has been a long term major supporter of Iran and Syria.  Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, it kept military ties with Saddam Hussein and other dictators in the area.  It has never been a friend of Israel, siding with the terrorist nations over and over at the UN.

Communism did not die when the Soviet Union fell.  China has been the largest communist country since 1949.  Even though it has recently allowed its people to engage in limited capitalism, it keeps the economic reins close to its power base, the communist party.  It continues to this day to oppress its people throwing dissenters into prisons, beating them, and executing them.  China would like nothing else than to see the US fall on its own sword as it fights Islamic fascism.

Syria and Iran have both been supporting terrorists against Israel and the US for decades.  These countries have made it clear that Israel has no right to exist and would like nothing less than to destroy it.  They wouldn't mind the US getting destroyed too.

The Palestinians have been given major concessions by Israel over the years and they elected a Hamas government - enough said!

The major countries of Europe (specifically France and Germany) have been found to be profitting off the dictators of the Mid-East.  The Oil-for-food scandal demonstrates why Europe is not fit to make moral judgments in this situation.

Robert intimates that these countries as morally superior to the US.  That is far from the truth.  History has proven over and over that the US is one of the last altruistic super powers.  Israel has also proven it takes life and liberty seriously.  There is no moral equivalency.
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Choices for our Border

Posted by Jyalai on Friday, July 07, 2006 1:26:26 AM
 

We can deal with our borders in three ways:

1) Allow anyone to cross freely into the U.S. without any process to legitimize their stay.

2) Force some through a process that legitimizes their stay in the U.S. while allowing others to cross freely.

3) Force everyone through a process that legitimizes their stay in the U.S., and heavily penalize those who try to circumvent the process.

The first choice may be enticing to the free market economists, but it does nothing to protect us from foreigners who do not have the best interests of the country at heart.  There are many of them!

We have currently selected the second choice. We force the ones who respect our country to jump through hoops, but have a totally ambivalent attitude those who sneak in without consequence.  From which group do you think the next terrorist will come? This choice does nothing for security and just angers those we make stand in line.  This choice is the worst of the three.

The third choice is the only answer to successfully handle immigration and security. We can allow millions of Mexicans a chance to join our great American experiment legally, and still secure our borders. But that means we must tackle both border security and immigration reform.

I was listening to Laura Ingraham interview congressman Mike Pence about his immigration reform plan. I know it isn’t conservatively correct to talk about reforming immigration until a fence is built on the border, but I think Mike tackles both problems as well as anyone has. We need security, but we need immigration reform also.

We have assimilated waves of English, Irish, Scandinavian, German, Jewish, Slavic, Italian, African, Chinese, Hmong, and Vietnamese immigrants.  I think we can handle a few million Mexicans too. We just need to find out how to do it while protecting our country.  Mike wants to use one of America's greatest strengths, it's market forces, to help us process the millions who want to participate in our Great American Dream, after we build a fence.  We should give Pence's ideas serious consideration.

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Party Action

Posted by Jyalai on Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:46:10 AM
I  just spent the evening working on my state house district Republican organization notebook.  I updated the names of precinct committee people and precinct maps preparing for this campaign cycle.  Yes, I am one of those party activists that call at caucus and election time.  As I looked through the names of the people who volunteer their time to see that the party continues to function in my area, I was disappointed in how few of my own friends outside of political circles were involved.

So many of my friends talk about the abuses of government.  They talk about high taxes, the biased media, bad schools, all the things that make them Republican.  Then you ask them what they are doing for the party and you get a real dumb look.

"Well, I vote!" they say.

Sometimes just voting is not enough.  Our country's future does not depend on one candidate getting elected, or even a handful of candidates getting elected.  The direction of the country changes when thousands of candidates get elected over and over again with similar goals.  That only happens through the party system.

The only way the Republican party is going to make a difference, now or in the future, is if people who cherish its ideals are willing to commit some time to the organization of the party.  When your precinct committee person calls you, don't get off the phone so quickly.  Seriously consider what you can do to help.  Better yet, don't wait for the phone call.  Call your state or county Republican headquarters and find out what you can do.

It's the efforts of the activists that win elections.  You can just vote, or you can actively seek the votes you need to move the Republican agenda.
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