This web-site will take a little semi-break now. The reason is excessive load at work, and the fact that this author now writes columns for two Icelandic newspapers, averaging to about 6 articles per month, plus writing for another politically related site and an own personal blog (in Icelandic). That should be plenty!
Perhaps something will pop up here from time to time. At some point there will be a full comeback.
E-mails are always welcome. Thank you for your visits.
Johan Norberg with a good point:
After all, who should deal with a war on the Balkans, a nuclear threat in North Korea, or a civil war in Africa? Well, Europeans, Asians and Africans, of course. As long as we don´t, and always call on the American world police to come save us, perhaps we should think again before we say that the Americans have themselves to blame when they are everywhere but home. (#)The fact is that Europeans by themselves can't deal with the threats of the world. Americans ended World War 1 and 2, the war in former Yugoslavia and the dictator-ship of Saddam, but above all, Americans have made sure that capitalism and freedom prevail in a world filled with socialists and fascists of all origins and religions.
Of course it's not to be expected that those who focus solely on the equality of material wealth understand the concept of freedom, but surrendering to their greed for other peoples fruits of labour and life is not an option. Never!
Socialists think they are on a morally higher ground than the supporters of capitalism and the free society. Socialists want an equal distribution of wealth. Everything else seems to of less importance. Is that really what matters? Is the material battle of equality of wealth so important that everything else can make way for it?
Of course not. But the socialist has another approach on his wealth-redistribution approach, and that is to point out the inequality of capitalism. Historically this has worked well for the socialist, and the capitalist usually finds himself in defense. The capitalist can point out that capitalism means peace, wealth, food for all, clothes for all, freedom for all. However, there's always the inequality of wealth. The socialist keeps the capitalist in defense with that sole, insignificant factor of free societies.
This must end. The capitalist does not just have all the facts on his side, and all the practical research and numbers. He also has the moral high-ground.
This author will soon invest in the book The Capitalist Manifesto. Not because is contains anything new. Not because it has some new philosophical ideas. But because maybe it can shake capitalists out of their unjustified defense-position and start the offense against the remnants of socialism. It's taken far too long to kill socialism. Who knows, maybe it will work in this wave of attack?
