11-07-2006, 08:48 AM
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...ion_d.html
A long read ( 10 minutes) but very well worth it, for those on both sides of the aisle.
The author is a highly respected science fiction writer and the only twice-consecutive winner of both the Hugo (voted on by readers) and the Nebula (by writers)...unless I have those backwards. Also the only one to win those for a book and its sequel.
The two books are
Enders Game
Speaker for the Dead
Both excellent. The later Xenocide is also good. The fourth of that series (Children of the Mind), I found to be rather lame.
But the accompanying Shadow series was good again. I'm not sure the last of that has been released (at least not in paperback).
I was surprised by this article though. From what I'd heard/read of his politics he was pretty liberal. But maybe he's more old-school like Kondracke,
Quote:
By Orson Scott Card
There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that's the War on Terror.
And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.
If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one.
Unfortunately, the opposite is not the case -- if the Republican Party remains in control of both houses of Congress there is no guarantee that the outcome of the present war will be favorable for us or anyone else.
But at least there will be a chance.
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations.
But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it -- and in the most damaging possible way -- I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages
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A long read ( 10 minutes) but very well worth it, for those on both sides of the aisle.
The author is a highly respected science fiction writer and the only twice-consecutive winner of both the Hugo (voted on by readers) and the Nebula (by writers)...unless I have those backwards. Also the only one to win those for a book and its sequel.
The two books are
Enders Game
Speaker for the Dead
Both excellent. The later Xenocide is also good. The fourth of that series (Children of the Mind), I found to be rather lame.
But the accompanying Shadow series was good again. I'm not sure the last of that has been released (at least not in paperback).
I was surprised by this article though. From what I'd heard/read of his politics he was pretty liberal. But maybe he's more old-school like Kondracke,
Quote:
By Orson Scott Card
There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that's the War on Terror.
And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.
If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one.
Unfortunately, the opposite is not the case -- if the Republican Party remains in control of both houses of Congress there is no guarantee that the outcome of the present war will be favorable for us or anyone else.
But at least there will be a chance.
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations.
But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it -- and in the most damaging possible way -- I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages
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