A mesolibertarian voice.
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Empiromania
Is the ideological cat out of the bag at Neocon Central?
Darth Vader is giving the invocation. Lunch is Caesar salad.
BOOK FORUM --- In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order
Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 10:00 a.m.–noon
American Enterprise Institute
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor,
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK623643.htm
Whereas once politicians were not willing to utter the term for fear of dignifying it, it is no longer taboo. "I do not want to say civil war, but we are going the Lebanese route, and we know where that led," says Sabah Kadhim, an adviser to the Interior Ministry who spent years in exile before returning to Iraq after Saddam Hussein's overthrow. "We are going to end up with certain areas that are controlled by certain warlords ... It's Sunni versus Shi'ite, that is the issue...
Well, maybe it will be a democratic civil war.
There was much speculation about the possible election of Nigerian Cardinal Franics Arinze as Pope, making him the first black Pope. Instead, however, European German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was elected, rather than the Nigerian prelate.
Could that explain the email I got today?
"DEAR BLESSED CHILD OF GOD, I KNOW YOU CAN HELP!
HELLO, I AM FRANCIS CARDINAL ARINZE FROM NIGERIA, PREFECT OF THE DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS.PLEASE HELP ME. I HAVE A DEPOSIT OF $10 MILLIONs IN THE VATICAN BANK, AND NOW I CAN'T GET IT BACK WITHOUT YOUR HELP. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ELECTED POPE IN THE ROME CONCLAVE BUT DUE TO A RACIST CONSPIRACY, I WAS DENIED IT.
IF YOU EMAIL ME AT THIS ADDRESS, YOU CAN HELP ME CORRECT THIS SIN AND RECOVER THE MONEY AND SHARE IN SOME OF ITS BLESSINGS. GOD BLESS YOU, AMEN.
Shouldn't there be some kind of investigation about this?
Well, at least the new Pope's got email. Really, if it had been the Nigerian cardinal instead, would he have been able to get any recipients to take them seriously?