Raymond est capitaliste tendance "libertarien", pro-armes à feu...
Mais oui, c'est quelqu'un de tout à fait sympathique :
Un extrait "gentil" de son blog :
"Steven den Beste wrote a long, intelligent and insightful essay on who the enemy is. I think he is right to see Afghanistan, Iraq, and the suppression of Al-Qaeda as phases of longer, wider war ? a clash of civilizations driven by the failure of Islamic/Arab culture[...]. I think he is also right to say that our long-term objective must be to break, crush and eventually destroy this culture, because we can't live on the same planet with people who both carry those memes and have access to weapons of mass destruction. They will hate us and seek to destroy us not for what we've done but for what we are. [...]
We must win. And we must impose our will and our culture on the losers, not for old-fashioned reasons like gold or oil or craving conquest, but because the likely alternative is nuclear megadeath, plague in our home cities, and the smell of Sarin in the morning. Is there anyone left who doubts that Saddam Hussein, who nerve-gassed Iraqis by the hundreds of thousands in the 1980s, would use nukes if he had them? [...]
There's a word for the process of conquering a third-world pesthole and imposing your culture on it. It's called imperialism. [...]
We -- and I mean specifically the U.S. now -- may have to conquer the Islamic world a second time, simply because the risks of war and the moral hazards of imperialism are less threatening than the prospect of some Allah-crazed Islamofascist detonating a knapsack nuke on the Smithsonian Mall.
[...]
Still. Reality is what it is. If there's no way short of straight-up imperialism and nation-building all over the Islamic world to prevent a holocaust on American or European soil that would make 9/11 look like a garden party, then that's what we're going to have to do -- civilize the barbarians at the point of a gun.
There is precedent; the British did a pretty good job of civilizing India and we did a spectacularly effective one on Japan. And the U.S. would be well equipped to do it again; our economy is now so large that we could run a globe-spanning empire from the petty-cash drawer. Seriously. The U.S, a hyperpower so dominant that no imaginable coalition of other nations could defeat it at conventional warfare, spends a ridiculously low percentage of GNP (3%) on its military."
Je conseille la lecture du reste de son blog, sur l'année 2002. C'est édifiant. A coté de lui, Donald Rumsfeld ressemble à Arlette Laguiller. Les sites qu'il linkent sont bien aussi, notamment "LGF" (Little Green Footballs). Des gens charmants.
Il a aussi ajouté ses propres entrée dans le Jargon File, dont certaines exprimant ses propres opinions politiques (le mot "Fisking", en particulier) :
[^] # Re: ESR s'énerve et tape du poing
Posté par Guillaume Laurent . En réponse au journal ESR s'énerve et tape du poing. Évalué à 2.
Mais oui, c'est quelqu'un de tout à fait sympathique :
Un extrait "gentil" de son blog :
"Steven den Beste wrote a long, intelligent and insightful essay on who the enemy is. I think he is right to see Afghanistan, Iraq, and the suppression of Al-Qaeda as phases of longer, wider war ? a clash of civilizations driven by the failure of Islamic/Arab culture[...]. I think he is also right to say that our long-term objective must be to break, crush and eventually destroy this culture, because we can't live on the same planet with people who both carry those memes and have access to weapons of mass destruction. They will hate us and seek to destroy us not for what we've done but for what we are. [...]
We must win. And we must impose our will and our culture on the losers, not for old-fashioned reasons like gold or oil or craving conquest, but because the likely alternative is nuclear megadeath, plague in our home cities, and the smell of Sarin in the morning. Is there anyone left who doubts that Saddam Hussein, who nerve-gassed Iraqis by the hundreds of thousands in the 1980s, would use nukes if he had them? [...]
There's a word for the process of conquering a third-world pesthole and imposing your culture on it. It's called imperialism. [...]
We -- and I mean specifically the U.S. now -- may have to conquer the Islamic world a second time, simply because the risks of war and the moral hazards of imperialism are less threatening than the prospect of some Allah-crazed Islamofascist detonating a knapsack nuke on the Smithsonian Mall.
[...]
Still. Reality is what it is. If there's no way short of straight-up imperialism and nation-building all over the Islamic world to prevent a holocaust on American or European soil that would make 9/11 look like a garden party, then that's what we're going to have to do -- civilize the barbarians at the point of a gun.
There is precedent; the British did a pretty good job of civilizing India and we did a spectacularly effective one on Japan. And the U.S. would be well equipped to do it again; our economy is now so large that we could run a globe-spanning empire from the petty-cash drawer. Seriously. The U.S, a hyperpower so dominant that no imaginable coalition of other nations could defeat it at conventional warfare, spends a ridiculously low percentage of GNP (3%) on its military."
http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2002_09_15_armedndangerous_arch(...)
Je conseille la lecture du reste de son blog, sur l'année 2002. C'est édifiant. A coté de lui, Donald Rumsfeld ressemble à Arlette Laguiller. Les sites qu'il linkent sont bien aussi, notamment "LGF" (Little Green Footballs). Des gens charmants.
Il a aussi ajouté ses propres entrée dans le Jargon File, dont certaines exprimant ses propres opinions politiques (le mot "Fisking", en particulier) :
http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02003-06-06&l=34#l(...)
Le 11 Septembre 2001, sa réaction a été de dire que ça ne serait pas arrivé si les passagers avaient eu l'autorisation de porter des armes.
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/11/2048256&mode=threa(...)
Une page plus interessante sur son "oeuvre" :
http://esr.1accesshost.com/(...)