Very thoughtful piece, Stuart. Thank you for this. We would partly agree but mostly disagree on some of your points made. Miller is a realist; he’s only stating factually the way the world’s populace,*which is by majority atheistic, agnostic, antagonistic toward traditional Western values founded Judeo-Christian values (more or less), is, how IT thinks.The mistake the traditional West makes over and over is believing or vainly hoping that the majority aforementioned is “reasonable, like us, and therefore thinks like we do, in traditional and cultural Western ways. We think, “They’ll see it our way; they’ll come around. They’re reasonable, like us.” Problem is, they do not see things our way and they have no intention of ever doing so. *Putin, Ji Ping, radical Islam jihadism, N. Korea, and rabid Marxists couldn’t!t care less. So, Miller is stating a fact that he is reminding the interviewer and viewers of the real world as it is.
It’s nice that you give that “only a realist” spin to Miller. It’s what he says about himself.
The Regime’s actions and pronouncements are antagonistic and aggressive. They speak for themselves and act accordingly. The concept that the world outside our nation state is atheistic, agonistic and antagonistic is now and has been historically justification for imperialism and aggression. These are old, recycled worldviews employed by the powerful. Russia says the same. Germany’s Third Reich said the same. Spain said the same when they discovered the land we now occupy.
Is aggression and war the only grounds you and Mr. Miller have for international relations?
(Asking for a bunch of friends I have in other countries.)
One country’s imperialist is another country’s deliverer. Ask the people of Venezuela and Iran. Regarding Miller, if you have the time and inclination, look up what repentant ex-Marxist leftist David Horowitz had to say about Miller shortly before he (Horowitz) passed away a year or so ago. Lastly, socio-political worldviews don’t change, or change very rarely so; it is only the names they go by that are updated. Peace and goodwill to you, old friend. : )
Very thoughtful piece, Stuart. Thank you for this. We would partly agree but mostly disagree on some of your points made. Miller is a realist; he’s only stating factually the way the world’s populace,*which is by majority atheistic, agnostic, antagonistic toward traditional Western values founded Judeo-Christian values (more or less), is, how IT thinks.The mistake the traditional West makes over and over is believing or vainly hoping that the majority aforementioned is “reasonable, like us, and therefore thinks like we do, in traditional and cultural Western ways. We think, “They’ll see it our way; they’ll come around. They’re reasonable, like us.” Problem is, they do not see things our way and they have no intention of ever doing so. *Putin, Ji Ping, radical Islam jihadism, N. Korea, and rabid Marxists couldn’t!t care less. So, Miller is stating a fact that he is reminding the interviewer and viewers of the real world as it is.
It’s nice that you give that “only a realist” spin to Miller. It’s what he says about himself.
The Regime’s actions and pronouncements are antagonistic and aggressive. They speak for themselves and act accordingly. The concept that the world outside our nation state is atheistic, agonistic and antagonistic is now and has been historically justification for imperialism and aggression. These are old, recycled worldviews employed by the powerful. Russia says the same. Germany’s Third Reich said the same. Spain said the same when they discovered the land we now occupy.
Is aggression and war the only grounds you and Mr. Miller have for international relations?
(Asking for a bunch of friends I have in other countries.)
One country’s imperialist is another country’s deliverer. Ask the people of Venezuela and Iran. Regarding Miller, if you have the time and inclination, look up what repentant ex-Marxist leftist David Horowitz had to say about Miller shortly before he (Horowitz) passed away a year or so ago. Lastly, socio-political worldviews don’t change, or change very rarely so; it is only the names they go by that are updated. Peace and goodwill to you, old friend. : )