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The Marketability of Foreign Policy
Secretary Albright recently told religious leaders that "the human rights situation in Sudan is not marketable to the American people." What a shocking statement. You and I ought to view that comment as a challenge to sear the conscience of America. If we don't use the power of democracy -- one of the great gifts of the Judeo-Christian tradition -- then we'll be complicit in what is shaping up to be a twenty-first century holocaust. Chuck Colson
Dag Hammerskjold, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, once said, "You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal; play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth; play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds."
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right." Robert Park (Of the American Physical Society)
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing. G.K. Chesterton
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers
Political campaigns are like venereal disease. It just takes one previous contact and the consequences can last for years. RCB 4/00
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't understand the Washington Post.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running he country, as long as they do something scandalous.
9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it.
10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country.
Bob Dickler
Reflection: Perhaps the people in Miami and Florida have attempted a move into running this country. Just a thought. RCB
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber." Winston Churchill Thru Dale Dewar, MD
Don Weston, MD, Vice Chancellor in West Virginia, noted this in discussions regarding the creation of a new medical school when he said, "As faculty we want to be this free spirit, with emphasis on the free but not much on the spirit."
When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage. Alexander Tyler
Remember too that at one dark hour of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln said: "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my concern is to be on God's side."