Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002
Dallas Area Talk Show Host Quotes ARI
Thomas M. Miovas, Jr.
On Thursday morning, 08/29/2002, a prominent Dallas, Texas area radio
talk show host, Mark Davis of WBAP 820 AM, read a portion of the
Ayn Rand Institute's editorial by
Onkar Ghate entitled "America is NOT Winning the War."
At first, I didn't realize he was quoting from the ARI web site,
since his intellectual leanings regarding the war tend to follows
those of ARI in broad generalities anyhow. Several years ago, during
the Elian Gonzalez fiasco, I had called his show to argue against him,
and later had asked him if I could give out a web site address, that of
ARI, with some hesitation he said OK, if the web address was short;
then, to my surprise he said he visited the site often.
Sounds like he still is!
He seemed to have quoted that last two paragraphs:
"Lacking the moral conviction to uphold its values abroad, America
increasingly and self-destructively turns inward, shifting its focus
to such relatively trivial questions as whether airline pilots should
be armed or government bureaucracies reshuffled. Because of our inaction
on foreign soil, we resign ourselves to more terrorist attacks like
that of September 11.
"How then goes the war? An objective answer must be: badly. But our cause
is not yet lost. We lack not the wealth nor the skilled military necessary
to defeat the enemy, only the ideas and the will. If we articulate and
practice a rational foreign policy, one actually premised on America's
self-interest, we will prevail. Nothing more is needed to achieve victory
than to replace the pragmatism and self-sacrifice now dictating America's
actions with the principles of reason and rational self-interest; nothing
less will do."
He then said "Well, there you have it," and gave out the ARI web address:
www.aynrand.org
You can read the entire editorial at:
www.aynrand.org/medialink/loosingthewar.shtml
