THE ARAB REGIMES !!!

The totalitarian regimes, like the fascists, or the fundamental Islamists, they all see force as necessary to effect the rule that they desire, reason is impotent; therefore force is the only instrument for survival.

The transformation of the countries into a totalitarian gangs saviors led regimes (Shabbiha) is bad news to the majority of Syrians, or similar Arab populations in other countries, and not only to them but to the international community and the west.

In this respect, a regime powered by it's armed and mostly semi legalized gangs is a form of neobarbarism. Civilisation is defined by the act of recognising another person as a human being. The definition of a barbarian is someone who cannot perform this act. Often because he has either come from or chosen a universe of meaning that does not contain the term "human being." If one is unable to recognize another person as a human being, then one does not know the difference between the human and the animal, confusion over these matters leads to slavery,human sacrifice, cannibalism, genocide and other horrors, such a regime is an engine of dehumanization, of turning other people into animals or less, in the name of this dark, neotribal leadership, one becomes a barbarian.

The regime's justice is not to be compared with the justice of man, a man may be considered to act unjustly by invading the position and rights of another, but no injustice can be conceived on the part of the regime or its leader. It is in his power as a leader to pour down torrents upon his people and mankind, and if he is to do this, his justice would not be questioned, there is nothing he can be tied to, nor can any injustice be supposed of him, nor can he be under any obligation to any person whatever.

It also means that the "moral" obligations that the regime sets upon man do not originate in reason, nor is there anything that the regime is obligated to do by reason. The leader can command what is evil to be good, or good to be evil. Reason has nothing to do with justice or morality. Only absolute regime will does matter.

Independent human reason implies a limit on the power of a regime or a leader, for if man could judge what is right and wrong, he could rule on what the regime in power could rightly prescribe for its subjects, and this in Syria and most of the Arab world,(including all of the gulf kingdoms and emirates)would be presumptuous and blasphemous.


Thanks for your time and patience, and my as always, salamat.

WE NEED TO ......

And yes, we need to rebuild America, and not Afghanistan and Iraq, or Israel for that matter, that's a very true statement, it's high time to start looking at our problems, and not everyone else, and not our so called allies who could turn into our enemies any time we don't suit their policies.


Again thanks for listening.

THE NATION"S SITUATION !!!

The US. government regularly prints money, as it is doing now to finance a colossal national dept, a direct result of a huge tax cut and a disastrous policy of waging wars. This is not a partisan rivalry or dispute; it is a condition decried by both liberal and conservatives alike, our children will pay for these decisions, and poor children will pay twice.

The idea that "for those able, the virtuous thing is to give voluntarily to the needy, unlucky or unable" is bogus, unproductive and unrealistic in a country and society as complex and large as ours. You can do this only with the help of institutions. Social planning is neither desirable nor undesirable; it is unavoidable and an absolute necessity in our world.

A decent society would order national priorities, it would make explicit decisions in diverse contexts and format, about national security, economic growth and employment, caring for the poor and sick, and for the environment.

We could for example, track existing experiments and policies in countries comparable to the United States that had nationalised health care, strict gun control, and social-protection programs.

Begging and charitable giving is not and should not be the policy nor part of the solutions.

What would happen if we took seriously the state-of-nature view romanticised by critics of social protection programs ?? Imagine the unregulated state, it is a dark and an impossible world, a world of food poisoning,drug fatalities, rampant crime,deceptive marketing, a world of unlimited ponzy schemes, chaotic highways, unaccountable sexism and racism, financial ruin caused by unscrupulous entrepreneurs, and constant fear in response to it all.

In a nation whose average household income, so far, exceeds basic needs, it would be a wonder if we weren't among the happiest of nations, and that should make us wonder why more than 70 percent of the US. population - mostly the poor and middle classes- struggle to ensure some of the most basic achievements of modern democracy, and why other liberal democracies are happier with far lower mean household incomes.

Now a days the administrative obstacles to construct a good and better society are greater than ever before. Again, there is a big difference between democracy in an early American village and democracy in a multi cultural, technologically sophisticated country of 300 million citizens.

In order to recover our trust in government, we need to see public officials constantly proposing enterprising ways to make our lives better, proposals to make us healthier, provide more leisure and vacations, more health protection, and in general, more real and effective opportunities and policies to correct the actual huge imbalances between the lower and higher echelons of citizenry, rather than mere freedom from the interference of others.



As usual I'm grateful to J. D. for his insight and inspiration, thanks and salamat