Amchaque
12-06-08, 16:40
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/spain-the-once-and-future-muslim-province/
Sandra M:
While living in Marbella, Spain in the early 1970’s I became acquainted with a socialist lawyer who would take me to lunch at the exclusive Marbella Club and then accuse me of “oppressing” the workers by living in Spain. (I never understood that either).
After many arguments, he invited me to address a class he taught at the University of Malaga (also in Andalucia) in which he used John Kenneth Galbraith’s THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE as a text. Contrary to his expectations, the students accepted my defense of capitalism (based on what I’d learned from Ayn Rand and reading Ludwig Von Mises). These students had NEVER heard these ideas before. Yet, the ideas made sense to them.
Ayn Rand had a term: “intellectual ammunition” which is very relevant to this fight against Islamic fundamentalism and a resurgent communism. We are not using the ammo provided by Stephen Schwartz and Robert Spencer and Bridget Gabriel and others on Islam or that provided by Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter and others.
We have lost Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Russia to the far left because we’re not fighting with our better ideas.
1) Translate books on capitalism into Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Russian (including Ayn Rand’s extremely persuasive novels.
2) I believe Reader’s Digest had a Spanish edition years ago and offered an abridged version of Friedrich Hayek’s THE ROAD TO SERFDOM which was very influential. I don’t trust the government USIA or Voice of America to do this, but a conservative private foundation should fund such an effort.
3) Syndicators for Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Ann Coulter, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, Charles Krauthammer should use those computer programs which translate English into Spanish and then have Spaniards and educated South Americans do the final editing. There might be some piracy of the columns by newspapers, but as columnists’ names became known, their books would sell.
The concept of intellectual property which is nonexistent in China is also shaky in South America. (what I’ve heard. don’t know it for a fact) and if wrong I apologize).
We have all the brilliant intellectuals we need for this fight. This is not a battle Obama would wage because for all his soaring inspriational rhetoric he’s on the side of the collectivists. McCain is as poor a rhetorician as GWB, and Bush to his eternal discredit put his manic, loyal but thoroughly incompetent Texas buddy Karen Hughes in charge of communicating to the Islamic world. What a hash she made of that job.
We have the ammo, we have the rifleists. We need the funding.
Jun 9, 2008 - 8:31 am
Sandra M:
While living in Marbella, Spain in the early 1970’s I became acquainted with a socialist lawyer who would take me to lunch at the exclusive Marbella Club and then accuse me of “oppressing” the workers by living in Spain. (I never understood that either).
After many arguments, he invited me to address a class he taught at the University of Malaga (also in Andalucia) in which he used John Kenneth Galbraith’s THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE as a text. Contrary to his expectations, the students accepted my defense of capitalism (based on what I’d learned from Ayn Rand and reading Ludwig Von Mises). These students had NEVER heard these ideas before. Yet, the ideas made sense to them.
Ayn Rand had a term: “intellectual ammunition” which is very relevant to this fight against Islamic fundamentalism and a resurgent communism. We are not using the ammo provided by Stephen Schwartz and Robert Spencer and Bridget Gabriel and others on Islam or that provided by Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter and others.
We have lost Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Russia to the far left because we’re not fighting with our better ideas.
1) Translate books on capitalism into Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Russian (including Ayn Rand’s extremely persuasive novels.
2) I believe Reader’s Digest had a Spanish edition years ago and offered an abridged version of Friedrich Hayek’s THE ROAD TO SERFDOM which was very influential. I don’t trust the government USIA or Voice of America to do this, but a conservative private foundation should fund such an effort.
3) Syndicators for Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Ann Coulter, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, Charles Krauthammer should use those computer programs which translate English into Spanish and then have Spaniards and educated South Americans do the final editing. There might be some piracy of the columns by newspapers, but as columnists’ names became known, their books would sell.
The concept of intellectual property which is nonexistent in China is also shaky in South America. (what I’ve heard. don’t know it for a fact) and if wrong I apologize).
We have all the brilliant intellectuals we need for this fight. This is not a battle Obama would wage because for all his soaring inspriational rhetoric he’s on the side of the collectivists. McCain is as poor a rhetorician as GWB, and Bush to his eternal discredit put his manic, loyal but thoroughly incompetent Texas buddy Karen Hughes in charge of communicating to the Islamic world. What a hash she made of that job.
We have the ammo, we have the rifleists. We need the funding.
Jun 9, 2008 - 8:31 am