{"id":4700,"date":"2018-03-12T05:01:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/12\/david-p-goldman-on-condoleeza-rice\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T05:01:50","slug":"david-p-goldman-on-condoleeza-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/12\/david-p-goldman-on-condoleeza-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"David P. Goldman on Condoleeza Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Should we assume that every people in every land is equally capable of shaping its own destiny? The notion that largely tribal Muslim societies can march to democracy on the same path as Americans who elected their own pastors and collected their own taxes has caused endless mischief. Time and again, Rice\u2019s prescription comes down to \u201cassume a civil society,\u201d where none ever has existed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Culture doesn\u2019t matter for Condoleezza Rice, who reduces the world to simple ideological categories. Her contribution to misguided American policies has been substantial. America hasn\u2019t begun to pay for the consequences of her mistakes. The Bush Administration and its successor spent over $4 trillion to build nations in Iraq and Afghanistan, with nearly 7,000 American dead and more than 50,000 wounded. What do we have to show for it?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Culture matters. This is why a nation has a right to defend and preserve its culture by enforcing its borders and by refusing to allow subversive elements to immigrate. <\/span><\/p>\n

We are not all the same whether as individuals or as groups. We don't share the same values or want the same things.  Not all cultures are equally conducive to human flourishing. <\/span><\/p>\n

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