The Book Sahib Cheney Is Reading While Touring South Asia

[BurtWorm]

The vice president's office says Cheney was never in harm's way in the attack, which reportedly killed 19 and injured a dozen others. And Cheney himself insisted that the attack never imperiled his secret plan to visit Kabul. "Never an option," he said. When Cheney boarded the plane from the tarmac, he seemed calm and collected,carrying a huge book to his seat—a history of the English-speaking peoples since 1900.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17359920/site/newsweek/




A review of the book from Amazon.co.uk:

Roberts is a proud British conservative(like Niall Ferguson) who is not afraid to write positively about the English Speaking Peoples history and the British Empire. There are many targets for Roberts contempt. Eire is quite rightly criticised in the book as the exception to the English Speaking Peoples through the 20th century, especially the disgraceful behaviour of Eamon de Valera. He lambasts the Left for its shameful fellow travelling and Communist apologetics, attacks socialists for basket case economic policies and castigates the liberal establishment for its contemptible anti-British Empire, anti-American posturing when faced with totalitarian enemies, communist, fascist or jihadist.

As for 'defending British colonialism', he quite rightly points out that the British Empire was, overall, a force for progress, democracy and civilization in the world unlike the French, Portuguese, Belgian, German, Russian or Chinese Empires. He doesn't make apologetics for human rights abuses or massacres(Amritsar etc) but explains their causes and consequences in the context of British rule at the time.

Contrary to being 'bigoted', 'absurd' or 'tripe', this book is wonderful celebration about the English Speaking Peoples courage, stoicism, culture, history, democratic traditions and decency since 1900. Leftists and post-colonial idiots can bleet on about imperialism, 'evil' capitalism and America all day long but the democracy and liberty that they take for granted was provided by the men and women who worked and sacrificed(and still do) for the very freedom that they now enjoy.

[itsmesgd]

1. and the shrub is having trouble with Hooked on Phonics

[Dr.Phool]

2. He just finished reading an instruction manual.

Something called "1984".

[patrice]

3. Oh, then what we're doing must be okay.

What's that axiom about the market (wonder why that one comes to mind just now . . .) "Past performance is not a guarantee of current or future profits" or something like that.

[BurtWorm]

4. kick

[Octafish]

5. Guess Sneer's not invited to Paraguay.

He must be one of the "left behinds."

Regarding his reading material: What a load of NAZI crap.