A good round-up on what is really happening in Honduras.

The whole situation begs the question: do people still have the right to defy their government first claimed in the Declaration of Independence?

DLH

Worldview Item of the Day

Our current era of connectedness allows us an unprecedented view into international affairs, one so unprecedented that we often no longer need to trust our government to reach foreign policy conclusions on our behalf. We can evaluate the evidence and reach those conclusions on our own.

The Constitution clearly prohibits individual citizens from taking foreign policy actions on their own, but at what point does the belief by a group of citizens that the government’s foreign policy actions are wrong allow that group of citizens to act? This idea of private foreign policy is one that is growing and will likely come to plague traditional governmental systems with more frequency in the years to come. Continue Reading »

Worldview Thought for the Day

Last week, I posted on what I was thinking about the ongoing protests in Iran, which post I believe I need to clarify.

I do not, in any way, doubt the sincerity of the protesters themselves. I do not believe that the protesters are part of some kind of well-staged media event. People do not die horrible deaths at the hands of an uncaring government unless they believe in why they are fighting. The protesters rightly believe that the election was stolen from them, and that is why they are protesting.

However, I do believe that the protests are only allowed to continue because they serve the purposes of the Ayatollah. The moment the protesters threaten the power of the Ayatollah, the response against the protesters will be swift, violent, and bloody.

If the protesters want to secure their liberty, then, it is the Ayatollah they must face. They will not be free from the slavery imposed on them in 1979 until they launch a counter-revolution against it. Until the day the protests stop being against Ahmadinejad and start being against theocracy, the results of what is going on in Iran right now will be more of the same.

DLH

Worldview Thought for the Day

Is it all a ruse?

After all, just beneath the thin veneer of West-pleasing democratic motions lies the dictatorship of the Grand Ayatollah. That same dictatorship underlay the previous administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. That same dictatorship has been behind Iran’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs since the 1980s.

I am not saying that the millions of people protesting all over Iran are not sincere. Instead, I am saying that the same dictatorship of the Grand Ayatollah that has been orchestrating things in Iran since it first overthrew the Shaw in 1979 could very likely be allowing the events unfolding there now for its own purposes. Continue Reading »

Jules Crittenden has up a well-written piece on his weblog about the 194th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo and how that battle helped lead to the rise of the anglosphere as it exists today. It’s worth reading just for the thought provocation about where we’ve been, where we are, and where we might be headed in our own troubling times.

DLH