Letters to the Editor
William Timberman
Published Letters: 3298 Editor's Choice: 7
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Good Point
[Read the article: Various matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Jojo, I'll put down to hoe long enough to say that your point coincides with my own experience, especially in, for example, quantitative analysis. Which are/is wrong, the datapoints off axis, or the theory which drew the axis in the first place? Sometimes we know, often we don't. Like so many other things, science on the ground with the grunts is often ambiguous. Science is an art.
Clownsense: Aphrodite the girl you loved, Athena the woman you were/are married to, Hera the abstract daunter of males. How can we have a pantheon without the other half of us? Moloch, destroyer of worlds, He doesn't need a she, which is why I never enter his temple.
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Spare Us
[Read the article: Tony Blair's abrupt reversal on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mark, it appears to have escaped your notice -- not terribly surprising considering the thickness of your ideological blinders -- but GWB's adventure in Iraq already has failed. There are still some of you tin megaphones who believe otherwise, but your numbers are diminishing. If I were you, I'd try selling something besides tickets to the victory rally. Girl Scout cookies move pretty well, although you'd probably look a little strange in a green sash.
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Consequences
[Read the article: Tony Blair's abrupt reversal on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Consequences? What, you haven't noticed the consequences to date? Or are you one of those folks who think that the liberal NYT made up all those maimed veterans in Walter Reed, or the 3000 unphotographed caskets unloaded in the middle of the night on who the hell knows what Air Force Base, or the half trillion dollars stuffed into Halliburton's offshore accounts, or pitchforked of the back of a truck in beautiful downtown Baghdad? Test the damned waters elsewhere will you, lest somebody lose their temper and hold your head under them.
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Sweetly Reasonable Mark
[Read the article: Tony Blair's abrupt reversal on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Poverino. The nasty liberals hit back, do they? Try calling Jonah's mommy, maybe she's got a spare hit squad available to dry your tears.
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How Dense Can You Be?
[Read the article: Tony Blair's abrupt reversal on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mark, of course I don't support our efforts in Iraq. They're based on, as someone other than myself has put it, the worst foreign policy blunder in American history. Does that answer your question? Besides, this is Salon. Everything we've posted here is available for your scrutiny. If you weren't more interested in making an ass of yourself than getting real answers to your rhetorical questions, you could have done so, and gone back home to your swamp hours ago.
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Yes, I See That You Can Indeed Be That Dense
[Read the article: Tony Blair's abrupt reversal on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, Mark, I'm angry -- damned angry that morons like you still insist that there's anything to be won in Iraq, and still have the temerity to intrude yourself on discussions between people who're trying to save what can be saved from this intolerable mess.
As I said in my first response to you, I'm not rooting for failure; the failure has already occurred. It's not my fault that you're too stupid, and our President too venal, to concede that simple point. Meanwhile innocents are dying in the thousands while you pretend to be a reasonable man. Really, it doesn't concern me in the slightest that you're offended; you deserve far worse.
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A Debate?
[Read the article: Tony Blair's abrupt reversal on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You weren't engaging in a debate, Mark, you were having a little sneer at Glenn, and by extension, at the rest of us. If it's a debate you want, perhaps you'd be willing to tell us exactly how many more Friedman Units and thousands of lives and billions of dollars you think it'll take before everything is hunky-dory in Iraq, and the great neoconservative aim of imposing peace and freedom on the benighted Middle East will finally be accomplished.
When, exactly, do you think the Congress should be ordering GWB's laurel wreath and triumph, assuming that we traitors and defeatists can be sneered off the stage in the meanwhile?
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To Mark
[Read the article: Tony Blair's abrupt reversal on Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A gracious comment, and it would be less than gracious of me not to acknowledge it. We do indeed disagree -- vehemently -- and that disagreement extends far beyond either the tactics or strategy of our involvement in the Middle East; it's a matter of what we believe America to be, both as a political culture and as a civilization. It goes without saying that this is not something we can debate in the comment section of someone else's blog, even one belonging to someone as tolerant as Glenn is.
We can take some consolation, though, in the fact that this debate is now general in the country, and each of us has his or her own part in it. There are thousands of garden plots now, each assiduously tilled, if you don't mind a pacific metaphor. What comes of it all, we'll see.
Rest assured, though, that eliminationist rhetoric won't be the easy tool that it once was for bullies who haven't the patience or the wherewithal to persuade honestly. The Dick Cheneys will find shooting quail far easier than bitch-slapping liberals, and the salad days of the Limbaughs and Gaffneys, the O'Reillys and Santorums are at an end -- that much I can guarantee you.