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Ron Silver’s 6 Step Plan to World Wide Acceptance

Actor/Activist Ron Silver has a simple 6 Step Plan to Get the World to Love the US of A again (like they used to).

It’s brilliant in its simplicity. Go read the context of each step, but there they are in their essense:

  1. Help the Arabs retake Andalusia — Having conquered it once, it belongs to them forever.
  2. Remove our troops and fleet from the Pacific.
  3. Disband NATO — Granted budgets will have to be adjusted. The Europeans will now be expected to pay for and provide for their own defense.
  4. Open our borders. That’ll get Canada and Mexico back on our good side.
  5. Get out and stay out of Africa. It’s not our responsibility or our problem.
  6. Keep our nose out of Persia’s desire to build Nuclear weapons — Allow them to liquidate the state of Israel. No Israel, no more problems.

The world will shine all the brighter when it’s unburdened by American arrogance and banality. Let’s return to our roots. Good ole’ American isolationism. America, first, now and forever. Return our fleets in the Pacific and Persian Gulf to our shores. Get our troops out of Korea, Germany, the Emirates, wherever. There’s plenty to do here at home. Leave nation building to the Europeans who worked wonders and did their thing in the 20th century. Our beloved land will once again bask in the world’s approval. George McGovern lives, ‘Come Home America.’ To paraphrase the immortal words of one of my fellow artists, we can hold hands, open a Coke and say, “They like us, they really like us.”

Of course this is just satire — but it’s almost verbatim to Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential platform. And that’s not funny.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | Trackback |

6 Responses to “Ron Silver’s 6 Step Plan to World Wide Acceptance”

Not entirely sure what part of Ron Paul’s platform you’re comparing to this.

1. Ron Paul would not help the Arabs retake Andalusia. Not providing aid to the Isrealis (and all of the Arab nations that are the US’s “allies”) is not the same as helping them retake Andalusia.

2. He probably would remove our troops from non-US territories in the Pacific (let Japan defend itself). The fleet would likely be a different issue.

3. Ron would withdraw from NATO, not disband it.

4. Ron is an advocate of locking down our borders.

5. Absolutely.

6. Israel could (and would) devastate ANY OTHER NATION in the Middle East two or three times over before they had a substantial enough nuclear arsenal to due Israel any real damage. Israel’s “liquidation” is not likely to happen any time in the near future.

Just some thoughts for reasoned debate.

Thank you.

Left by Malazon on October 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Hey Malazon.

I just feel I need to clear number 6 up.

Israel is a very small country. One nuclear weapon could effectively obliterate its entire population. Whatever is left of Israel could retaliate and do even more damage, but the point is that we don’t want to get to that point in the first place. The Islamists may know this, and the scary thing is they may be perfectly fine with it.

Some food for thought…

Left by Nazar on October 30th, 2007 at 4:38 pm

I think Malazon’s point was that Israel has an incredibly powerful military capable of destroying any Arab nation seeking to launch nukes long before they had the chance to do so.

Due in no small part to the billions of dollars the United States government has poured into it, of course.

Left by John Jarzemsky on October 30th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

I don’t know about that John. The only way to really know if a country is about to launch nukes is through good intelligence. We didn’t even know when North Korea was going to test their rockets last summer…until they tested them. I mean, the Mossad is good, but I don’t think they’re that good.

Oh, and the money goes both ways, my friend. For every dollar we’ve spent in Israel, we’ve received tenfold back in terms of weapons development (Patriot, Arrowhead missile systems, even cellphones were developed in Israel), as well as a loyal ally that saves us the enormous expenses of maintaining additional troops and bases in that region.

Not to mention the humanitarian aspects, of course.

Left by Nazar on October 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Good points, Nazar.
Some other achievements of Israel:

Intel’s new multi-core processor was completely developed at facilities in Israel.
Voice over Internet Protocol technology was pioneered in Israel.
Bill Gates calls Israel “a major player in the high-tech world”; most of Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel; the Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel; both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the U.S. in Israel; and, with more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world apart from the Silicon Valley.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the work force, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany.
With over 25 percent of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin; it has the largest number of startup companies globally, second only to the U.S.; it is No. 2 in the world for venture capital funds, financing all these advances; its $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined; and Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
And while it maintains, by far, the highest average living standards
and per-capita income, exceeding even those of the UK, Israel is the
largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth, relative to its population.

I’ll stand with Israel, anyday.

Left by no2liberals on October 30th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

I have absolutely no doubts that Mossad operates far more efficiently and effectively than the CIA. I stand by Israel as well, but I think what Malazon and I are both trying to say is that Israel is not the timid little lamb so many people make it out to be. They are an extremely powerful nation and a military force to be reckoned with. The Silver piece implies that the only thing preventing the “liquidation of Israel” is the United States, which is completely and utterly untrue.

Left by John Jarzemsky on October 31st, 2007 at 12:23 am

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