Iâm told Russian also has a Constitution and popular elections.
So why worry?
Oh yeah, this was about Columbia,
This me, me, me Ăźber alles in der Welt - attitude is self destructive in our modern world. Although I notice our own self-destruction isnât an item of concern, itâs all about the chest thumping and demands, so long as I get what I want nothing else matters.
Back in 2004, during the Vice Presidencial debates, the question of the moment was: Americaâs Right to âGo It Alone.â Cheney proclaimed: âAmerica will not allow anyone veto power!â Senator Edwards (and by extension the Democratic Party) could respond no better than to mumble meaningless platitudes.
Why couldnât Senator Edwards invoke the words of our United States Declaration of Independence? The last line of the first paragraph reads: â⌠a decent Respect to the Opinion of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to Separation.â
Our Declaration of Independence and its signers granted no one veto power, however they did recognize a higher arbiter of correctness and a requirement that they be able to justify their actions in the eyes of the world!
Why couldnât the Democrat articulate that?
Why have we so easily misplaced our respect for the rest of mankind?
~ A historic inspiration worth recalling ~
Our Founding Fathers were all men of passionate, deeply held and defensible beliefs.
Yet, each one knew they needed the knowledge and experiences of their ideological opponents.
They allowed themselves the luxury of respecting their opponents and they appreciated that there was something to be learned from most everyone.
They had the humility to understand that no one of them held absolute insight.
And they had the integrity to be able to alter perspectives when new information justified it.
Shouldnât all of us reacquaint ourselves with this principle?