FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY
In defense of freedom, democracy and civilised humanity is an increasingly intolerant Western world.
I am a poet, a Word Artist.
I consider Patrick J Buchanan the world’s greatest living writer.
I offer this brilliant metaphor alone as proof: “To save Americans from contracting a virus that may kill 1-3% of those infected, we have put America on a ventilator.”
What will we lose and what can we save?
Shutdowns are man’s way to fight a disease.
God Bless American Freedom.
And save us from us.
Geoff Fox, Down Under, 14 April, 2020
Happy Birthday Tulsi.
Late on America’s Easter Sunday, I say that I miss your candidacy.
It should have been a resurrection for your party.
You gave the Democrats what my political heroes Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul gave and give the Republicans: uncompromising modern anti-war integrity.
But only a tiny number of Democrat primary voters embraced your presidential bid.
Why has the party of Bobby and Jack Kennedy become a party for Hawks?
I wish you well, Tulsi.
Peace.
Geoff Fox , Down Under, Easter Sunday,, 2 p.m. Hawaian time.
“The only thing new on this earth is the history you don’t know.” – Harry Truman
The Marshall Plan is famous as an act of extraordinary generosity from America which restored prosperity to a war ravaged Europe.
It was signed into law by President Truman on the 3rd of April 1948.
The plan was conceived and put in place after the damage was done and the situation had been fully assessed.
It worked.
Now we see people in a health crisis calling it a war and spending enormous sums of money to prevent as yet unknown damage and simultaneously ceasing the economic activities which could generate the income to pay for what is being spent.
Does that order of doing things and that way of speaking of things make any sense?
What makes more sense to me as words for reflection by all of us now are these words of George C Marshall himself:
“The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.”
“A political problem thought of in military terms eventually becomes a military problem.”
The more I reflect on The Greatest Generation, the more I believe this modern world still has a lot to learn.
Lest We Forget
Geoff Fox, 3rd April, 2020, Down Under
Nobody should be fooled by President Trump’s blowhard style of political campaigning.
POTUS is firmly in the tradition of great Republican peace makers in the White House.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and saved the Union.
Dwight D. Eisenhower inherited a mess in Korea from Harry Truman but he acheived what has been a lasting peace.
Richard Nixon, a man of the Quaker faith which is profoundly committed to the pursuit of peace, started talking with his communist adversaries.
Ronald Reagan achieved genuine reductions in weapons of mass destruction and, using peaceful methods, the Gipper won The Cold War.
Donald Trump has chosen dialogue with the leader of the worlds’s newest nuclear power, while others try to score political points about this by practicing the demonisation which is second nature to far too many modern progressives in The West.
I believe this current POTUS has shown a better balance of restraint and strength in The Middle East than any American President since George H. W. Bush.
In the little movie above, I have endeavored artistically to create a seamless transition between the thoughts of Eisenhower in his astonishing farewell address and the thoughts of Candidate Trump in 2016, because:
I like Ike.
And Donald Trump.
Geoff Fox, 4th March, Melbourne, Down Under
My response to the war between islamophobic bigots and Islamic terrorists is to declare myself neutral and turn to God:
Geoff Fox, Solo, Central Java, 15 April, 2019
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