Well it looks as if that applies to one Mike Huckabee as well.
Witness his foreign policy, in all it's feel good glory.
A snippet:
American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open
up, and reach out. The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality
has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will
recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us
against the world but pits the world against the terrorists. At the
same time, my administration will never surrender any of our
sovereignty, which is why I was the first presidential candidate to
oppose ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would endanger
both our national security and our economic interests.
A more
successful U.S. foreign policy needs to better explain Islamic jihadism
to the American people. Given how Americans have thrived on diversity
-- religious, ethnic, racial -- it takes an enormous leap of
imagination to understand what Islamic terrorists are about, that they
really do want to kill every last one of us and destroy civilization as
we know it. If they are willing to kill their own children by letting
them detonate suicide bombs, then they will also be willing to kill our
children for their misguided cause. The Bush administration has never
adequately explained the theology and ideology behind Islamic terrorism
or convinced us of its ruthless fanaticism. The first rule of war is
"know your enemy," and most Americans do not know theirs. To grasp the
magnitude of the threat, we first have to understand what makes Islamic
terrorists tick. Very few Americans are familiar with the writings of
Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian radical executed in 1966, or the Muslim
Brotherhood, whose call to active jihad influenced Osama bin Laden and
the rise of al Qaeda. Qutb raged against the decadence and sin he saw
around him and sought to restore the "pure" Islam of the seventh
century through a theocratic caliphate without national borders. He saw
nothing decadent or sinful in murdering in order to achieve that end.
America's culture of life stands in stark contrast to the jihadists'
culture of death.
Quote in bold is my emphasis. Sorry Huck but it's not a matter of knowing what makes them tick. It's a matter of standing up to what is OBVIOUS tyranny and not blinking. If Americans don't know what they face already then we're already lost. Also, despite your efforts there is still a MSM that won't let that message get across like you think it will. Frankly, it all smacks of an intense naivety.
So I commented a little...shoot me.
Climate Change/Global Warming - The Reality
I absolutely could not pass this up. Here is Professor Bob Carter explaining hard data in regards to Climate Change including it's actual causes and effects. What follows is four videos, via YouTube embedded, of his lecture:
Part One:
Part Two:
Part three:
Part Four:
I would say that is pretty damning, wouldn't you agree?
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