From a WSJ interview with William F. Buckley (subscription required, I think):
“My view is unorthodox,” Mr. Buckley says of the violence roiling the French suburbs. “It seems to me that a very hard dose of market discipline would distract the attention of the young revolutionaries from their frolics, traditional and otherwise, and my sense is that if they had to worry about how to eat, and buy food, they would stop screwing around and face reality. If these people didn’t wake up in the morning thinking about what cars to burn — instead of work — they might not be having these problems.”
A few more on George Bush’s conservatism and the future of conservatism, below the fold:
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Jay, your turn…
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Ok, I admit it, I could go read it for myself…but I was wondering if this was a cut and paste or bad transcription or what? “But it is absolutely to say that conservatism implies a certain submission to reality; and this war has an unrealistic frank and is being conscripted by events.”
cuz that don’t make no sense at all. Does the war’s “unrealistic frank” have anything to do with Bush playing hide the salami as charged by Dean?
Actually, Falze, that’s correct according to the WSJ story, but on second read, I’m a little confused by it, too. When I read it the first time, my brain filled in the gaps, but maybe WFB was using some British-ese we don’t know?
…a “cognate aversion to boredom.” Wow! God bless Bill Buckley. May his own view of his life and his accomplishments be as satisfying to him as to those of us whose thoughts have found through him so eloquent and thoughtful a voice.
Sometimes Buckley says things that make you scratch your head, wondering, “What did he just say?”. Other times, you think, “Brilliant! Wish I’d thought of that.” He’s worth listening to or reading just for the brilliant moments.