tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post2444557215469303690..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Security policyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-78575954035010883322011-08-19T13:34:24.668+02:002011-08-19T13:34:24.668+02:00Purely for the sake of improving standards of argu...Purely for the sake of improving standards of argumentation on the internet I point out that saying that a statment "smells" of something does not lead any conclusion other than those possible to make about the author of this statment based on this choice of smearing tactics.<br /><br />Incidentally, hating the post -45 political correctness seems to imply that the author wants us to constrast said political ideas with the political ideas prior to 1945, presumably those in Germany, and presumably those shortly prior to 1945. So in essence it's an invocation of Godwins law ;)Rettawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-24237290670674833632011-05-08T19:11:02.476+02:002011-05-08T19:11:02.476+02:00You don't comment about national security or d...You don't comment about national security or defence policy at all, but about military policy.<br /><br />A cost/benefit analysis is not PC - although it may be smeared as being PC, of course.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-64248432974212904182011-05-08T19:07:24.696+02:002011-05-08T19:07:24.696+02:00LOL, yes, think we agreed to disagree before ;-)
...LOL, yes, think we agreed to disagree before ;-)<br /><br />In my understanding national security & defence policy is not primarily a territorial thing and thus can very well be excercised in far-away dusty places populated by raucous brown people. And furthermore it has a strong component of competition, in the sense that what makes me strong leaves the other weak, or at least the other can't take it to make himself stronger. And one could even argue that factors like way and standard of life and cultural and religious characteristics factor into national security. And peace? Not a quality in itself (except you're Buddhist). Patrick Henry said some clever words about that. And your last sentence is very much modern German. Smells of leftist defeatism. Sorry to be so blunt - but I say this being German myself and oh how I hate this post-1945 PC attitude!Distillernoreply@blogger.com