Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 40
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GWOT
[Read the article: Attention Democrats: GOP fear-mongering does not work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could one of the astute members explain to me the Global War On Terror? If you can't define this bogeyman how can you expect to allay the fears of the Dems that their lack of strength in dealing with this(GWOT) will hurt them?
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@titus pullo
[Read the article: Attention Democrats: GOP fear-mongering does not work]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The jihadis are irrational actors. They want to die, hence the usual deterrents are pointless. And they have to get lucky only once."
Do you mean as opposed to rational behavior like invading Iraq and creating thousands more jihadis?
A tired, trite expression,..."they only have to get lucky once." Don't think Osama wants to die, we came and he fled. Of course we didn't pursue very far--another irrational choice?
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Great talk at Cato Glenn
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Really appreciate your work. You are the Mother Theresa of our Constitutional rights.
Would like to see you go toe-to-toe with John Yoo, just to expose the extreme thoughts behind this cabal, for all to see.
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The Appeal to Authority
[Read the article: The foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Daniel Pipes, knows Arabic (and French, and German), holds a Harvard PhD (with a thesis on Islam and politics) has lived in Egypt, and has written 12 books about the Middle East. Somehow, though, I don't think his scholarship will impress this crowd.
--Anonymous
Maybe this crowd is discerning?
Seen him speak several times and always thought "What a racist bigot"
"The increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews."
"The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be." Daniel Pipes, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 2001
"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene...All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most." (National Review, 11/19/90)
"Iranians and Pakistanis, to take two groups of non-Arabs, are at least as widely conspiracy-minded and as anti-Semitic as, say, Tunisians and Kuwaitis." (Commentary, 9/1/99)
"...black converts tend to hold vehemently anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic attitudes." (Commentary, 6/1/2000)
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New Sept. FISA Proposal
[Read the article: Zimbabwe passes warrantless eavesdropping law, cites U.S.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could one of the counselors in the audience tell us if anything in this proposal excuses Bushco from criminal liability?
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Is It Paranoia?
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is the main reason for the disconnect between reality and fantasy? This always puzzled me about certain educated friends and commentators. Why does their education and common sense fail them? Do people just crack under pressure and follow the most radical murderous leader on a podium?
I'm just amazed at the shift to extremism in reaction to a threat that has been there all our lives. Fortunately a large percentage of Americans see the real threat as this over-reaction to terrorism, the willingness to give up basic human rights for fear of living under Sharia law. Its even funny to type that delusion.
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fu
[Read the article: Enforcing the community's foreign policy orthodoxy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too bad. It would have required only one functioning bio or chem war lab, or centrifuges in Tuwaitha to legitimize the entire enterprise. But Saddam needed to act like they were present for his own political purposes, and assumed (properly) that no one would come in and call his bluff. In short we believed a liar and it cost us this occupation to see for ourselves.
You may have been fine with taking he risk after 9/11 that noone else was going to attack us, but that would have been negligent. Either way Bush was going to suffer, and decided that the welfare of the country was worth more than his legacy. Unlike some other Presidents I could name.
Lots of "bad guys" have WMD. I don't see intent with them or Sadam to attack us and you ignore this fact.
Your second sentence is even more flawed. Sadam underestimated how foolish Bush really was.
I thought someone else would attack us, but not a sovereign country with everything to lose--how stupid would that be.
As for your last two statements, see above, Bush is a fool and is trying to salvage his "legacy" on the corpses of dead soldiers--hows that for craven behavior? Worst president ever, heh?
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The Economics of this war
[Read the article: The D.C. establishment versus American public opinion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ghillie "...is what effect would withdrawal have on the U.S. economy? To what extent is Iraq spending propping up the part of the economy that China is not?"
You pour money down a rat-hole and that money is wasted.
Maybe you could make the argument about stabilizing the oil prices? No, instability is still in the market.
How about all of the defense contractor making money from weapons systems? Lost opportunities for equipment Americans could use at home.
The government would be better off dumping billions of dollars out of pickup trucks, at least the money would be spent here.
China is producing things Americans want. The Iraq war is making markets unstable not more stable. Huge deficit spending causes pressure on the bond markets eventually, that is how it is financed, and that is bad for private interests in financing their projects.
So, lost opportunities today and for the future, its a lose-lose proposition.
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No We won't pay, Others pay
[Read the article: A one-day guide to war supporters and their enablers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's how it works.
"Getting out of Iraq isn't the whole problem, so I contend that it does matter how we do things -- or we'll pay for it for the next 100."
-- ondelette
Sure our "reputation" will suffer but Americans worldwide are known as fools already. The minorities in Iraq will pay the big price just as the Cambodians payed big-time for our meddling there.
Similar to the housing bubble, wealthy tricksters with 2 vacation homes will not lose them, the poor shlub with a balloon payment will.
Things will change when the economy starts to go south a bit and Homer Simpson starts worrying about paying for beer and gas--not before.
Let's just hope the economic problem will be small or the next "leader" we get could be more radical, like Bush with a brain--scary stuff huh kids?