The Tea Party is in danger of being torn between the Ron Paul’s constrictive and Sarah Palin’s expansive foreign policy wings. Culturism can help us move past both of these hurdles.
Culturism is the opposite of multiculturalism. Culturism is defined as “the philosophy which holds that majority cultures have a right to define, protect, and promote themselves domestically.” This philosophy supports sovereignty.
On foreign policy culturism provides a third path between Palin and Paul. From a culturist point of view, both sides are misled by avoiding the subject of culture.
Paul’s view that Jihad is a backlash against an expansive foreign policy ignores culture. Islam is an expansive theocratic thought-system that has been at war with the West for 1400 years. Withdrawing our troops from the Middle East and apologizing for America’s behavior will not win us friends and allies in that region.
Palin’s Neo-Con friends take the view hat we can turn Muslim nations into believers in western values. This also ignores culture. Islam is fundamentally hostile to the solely western values of freedom of speech, any separation of church and state, women’s rights, and democracy. From a culturist perspective, nation building in that region is doomed to failure.
Two foreign examples will outline culturist foreign policy towards Islam.
Using Iran as an example, culturists believe that we need to militarily destroy their nuclear weapons making ability. Culturism believes in cultural sovereignty, but nuclear weapons are not a part of Iran’s traditional majority culture and they are developing these weapons to attack western nations. We cannot allow them to have nuclear weapons. Yet, after destroying their weapons building infrastructure, we should not try to rebuild their civic and political infrastructure with the hopes of turning them into an America-loving democracy.
Afghanistan hit us by harboring the terrorists that did such tremendous damage on 9 – 11 that we have a right and duty to inflict pain upon them in self-defense; thus teaching them -and the world - a lesson. The perpetrators’ being killed cannot be so pretty, but the al Qaeda forces attacked us and we must be done, that is war. But after we inflict pain in Afghanistan and kill those who attacked us, culturists insist that we let Afghanistan be the nation it wants to be, even though we realize they will not uphold western values or be strong western ally.
From a Tea Party consistent vantage, wanting smaller government and expanding American dominion to an entire other hemisphere lacks consistency. “Smaller” and “world” government are near opposites. And every penny put into the Afghani economy, does not go into ours.
Thus the culturist point of view combines the hawk message of protecting the US with the anti-expansionist view of the doves by including cultural information. If a nation harbors terrorist that hurt us, we must inflict serious pain on them and then leave. This policy is fiscally conservative. This policy protects us from terrorism. This policy is compatible with smaller government. This culturist foreign policy should be the Tea Party position.
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Japan 1945.
Shinto, Budhism and an emperor descended directly from deity across over 3000 years.
A suicide culture.
Reverence for 'other'.
And yet 60 years on......
Once you've spent some time at the barbecue....thoughts occur.
HUMAN NATURE.
Jefferson was right.
People want to do whatever the hell they want to do.
My namesake (world's 1st neocon) obliterated Sparta forever not by attacking THEM but by setting free and institutionalizing that freedom in a culture which had been a culling training ground for murder and slavery for many hundreds of years previous to that, the Helots.
Worse than any of this however is that Javy Vazquez REALLY DOES SUCK and cannot and will never be able to pitch form the mound in the Bronx.
CHOKER.
Hi, guess what. We here in the greater Boston area are getting a little taste of a widespread Emergency. Seems a 10-foot water main from the Quabbin reservoir sprung a leak and 38 communities including Boston are now on a Boil Water alert. We have to boil all drinking water until they fix it. Which probably means until tomorrow.
Fortunately I keep plastic bottles of water in the freezer at all times. Even more fortunately there is beer and wine in the house.
It's being characterized as "highly unusual and catastrophic" although it is a relatively new (5-6 yrs) steel pipe. No sabotage suspected but they can't even get to the break yet so they don't know why it failed.
Should be interesting to watch this.
Meanwhile, I'd like to request the 5th Dimension's version of "Sweet Blindness" if anyone can find it.
MR DJ working hard for you. . .
rra that's not the 1st time either
I'm with Epa on this one, though I do agree that it is a good idea to be advised by the Culturist paradigm when making foreign policy decisions.
For instance, if we would have taken into account how deeply entrenched the Arab/Islamic culture is in Iraq, we would have known that our choice was either to ransack and destroy their culture (a la Japan in WWII) or to leave well enough alone.
Apparently, George Bush didn't know history.
Very friggin' sad.
So, now we have another Sharia state in the ME, albeit one that may develop into something resembling a viable Democracy (as long as all the Christians and Jews are gone).
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