Hi Brutus, you anti federalist you!
I agree with your two pervious posts but I want to ad that Glen like many others, including myself are very concerned about the threat of Islamic terrorist scumbags who want to chop off our kid's heads and have their way with our wives.
BUt like many of us he's been programmed over the course of many years to think that the world will go to hell if the USA doesn't police it and throw our weight around.
There are also lots of conservatives many of whom I've debated in recent years, (try the last 35 yrs) about our involvement in the Middle East being heavily informed by our dependence on oil.
First they try to say that our involvement there, or the war in Iraq has nothing to do with oil, then when you push them or just let them show their true colors, they usually say that if we weren't there, they would destroy our entire way of life and our economy.
What they're really saying is that the USA who invented every quality of life improvement from the automobile to the airplane and the vcr, dvd, radio, tv and computer. A country who first split the atom, can clone sheep and, over 30 years ago put a man on the moon, will have to revert back to the horse and buggy without Arab oil. Cowards who would rather send your son to die to keep oil prices low than to allow the free market to set us free once and for all. They like to blame "environmentalists" but cannot even define what that is, but blame them for not allowing oil companies to drill for oil here on our own soil. They can't define what an environmentalist is though they know they're whackos who usually wear tie dye clothes, smoke pot and hug trees yet those same whackos are somehow powerful enough in the minds of our Republican conserve-nothings as to stop powerful oil companies who line the pockets of our elected officials from doing what they want in some god forsaken part of the world where no one will see them.
Glen Beck doesn't see how we can free ourselves without the use of military force. He's afraid of the things that will transpire whether odd-even rationing gas days or riots in the streets.
And as you pointed out he's blinded to the loss of liberty in times of war. In the meantime he will tolerate loss of liberty because he percieves the hoards of barbarians being held back by our huge military and old ladies having heat for their homes and gas for his Rolls Royce until some scientist finds the silver bullet new fuel that can show the Arabs our national bird. The trouble is,, that silver bullet doesn't exist and never will but we have the technology right now and plenty of our own resources to accomplish what endless wars and imaginary fuel sources never will.
He mentioned the Federalist Papers. Why don't you turn him onto the Brutus Papers too. It might help to free his mind and dispell his overwhelming fears.
