Just what do you think is a “nation”?
I’m not sure I have a very well developed idea of what a nation is exactly, but I’d say it is a self-identified group along some informal or customary trait(s) like ethnicity, religion, language or region.
Why do you ask?
I asked because I wasn’t sure what you think a “nation” is. Many people equate “nations” with states/governments.
A senator since 1963. Son of a bitch. Hawaii is stupid.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senator-daniel-k-inouye-of-hawaii-is-dead-at-88/
Since I watched these videos, not a day goes by where I replay them in my mind. I’m seriously in awe of how this guy is able to control a debate or conversation.
What a waste of a life.
funny how the comment section has a guy saying politics did not make him, but war did, and he should be respected for war
Jan or the guy he is interviewing?
Inouye.
He typifies the kind of person who climbs the highest mountain in life, only to discover that he’s climbed the wrong mountain.
Except, in his case, he never did discover he was on the wrong mountain, and died thinking he’d done great things.
When in fact he’s done nothing great in political life because everything “great” politicians accomplish is terrible for society.
Sen. Ieyasu should have come straight and said it. The government has a right by virtue of being the most powerful entity and having a monopoly on force. It has a right because it has guns, badges and public support behind it. There’s no need to logically analyse the legitimacy of the state, it is merely enough to acknowledge the fact that it is strong, and you, the individual are weak. In politics, just as in the animal kingdom, the weak are ruled by the strong. Democracy is nothing but a mass sham to keep the public oblivious of this simple fact. The populace has no bearing over public decisions, yet it still pretends to consent with the wise dictates of our overlords which the mass media drills in our heads, are intended for our common benefit. “Democracy” as defined in modern political linguo is finding the boot stomping your face agreeable after the fact it was stomped on.
EDIT: I didn’t know that Inoye passed away while writing this message. I suppose I should pay my respects. Whatever he may have done or failed to do as a senator, he had a legendary reputation for his wartime deeds as part of the ethnic Japanese units in the United States Army, which were some of the most decorated soldiers in the war. Although I do not morally support US involvement in any wars it fought, I still view with respect true soldiers who gave everything for what they believed in.