FRIENDS

Pope Benedict is visiting – Vatican City

The Dalai Lama is visiting - Tibet

The British Prime Minister is visiting – The United Kingdom

The heads of north korea, cuba, venezuela, etc., are not here.

Somewhere in my past half century of adulthood I was told that you can tell a lot about a man or woman by the friends they keep and by the books they own/read.

Well, the first three gentlemen above are friends of the United States.

The last three above are enemies of the United States.

The first two of these last three persons never leave their countries. The third one occasionally travels to various benighted places: cuba or the un.

I have heard one speech by the British PM.

I have heard parts of one by His Holiness, Benedict.

I have heard snippets by the Dalai Lama.

We need such friends. We can learn from them and we can benefit each other.

The world is really a cruel place. The good guys have a lot on their plates. The sad fact is that the good guys are nowadays not usually the strongest guys.

There is one strongest guy. You know who that guy is.

And our strongest ally to date is the United Kingdom.

For all its faults, the Roman Catholic Church will and does figure as an essential part of the victory of civilization over the barbarians.

And the Dalai Lama is the representative of an oppressed culture that does not deserve to perish at the hands of barbarians.

We live at the epicenter of the strongest power the world has ever known.
We have no idea of that strength…or of the threats to that strength that abounds without our borders.

What we don’t know can hurt us.

There is a lot we don’t know.

b.o. and hillary know a lot about Washington politics. They don’t know sh.t about such people as the above first three and the beauty of Western [Anglo-American] Civilization.

Vote carefully this fall.