I understand that you weren't prepared for it, but I was actually agreeing with you about LWM. We defined RWA as applying to left wingers a while ago and he fits the bill perfectly. Arne on the other hand is just a dick.

The bad news is, the person agreeing with you is the senior Republican Troll. The good news is this comment by Glenn from the last election that confirms your ideas regarding electability against political dogma....

Previous Comment --There are two battles being fought at the moment, one between Republicans and Democrats for power. The other is being fought between the grass roots and the Beltway over which matters more, votes or campaign contributions.

Glenn --Exactly. There is and always has been (at least since as long as I've been watching) a two-pronged war being waged by the blogosphere and related forces -- (1) against the Bush movement and (2) against the principle-free, soul-less status-quo-perpetuators who run the Democratic Party.

Prong (2) was subordinated to prong (1) over the last few months out of necessity -- bringing some balance to the government and imposing some limits on the administration was a crisis priority with which nothing else competed in importance. But now that that's done, prong (2) will re-emerge strongly again, as it should -- otherwise, victory with prong (1) is impossible in any real sense.

Glenn Greenwald | 12.10.06 - 9:32 am | #

I think you'd get more traction on this theme if you offered something less than bombing, and more than capitulation as demonstrated by the British.

A policy of passivity assumes that Iran is amenable to diplomacy, and that if it succeeds in building a nuke, won't use it. Tossing out the IAEA and snubbing EU entreaties rules out the first. The wanton destruction of it's own people as seen in the war with Iraq is indicative of willingness to inflict death and destruction on enemies.

Ahmadinejhad has directly threatened Israel repeatedly. Is there some substantive reason you don't believe him, and are you willing to bet an entire nation's lives on you guessing correctly?

Let me state it in a Southern kind of way:
You and your buddies bust into somebody's house and crash their party for no good reason and start bullying people around.

LOL. No good reason? These people were just minding their own business? Let's see what public statements these people had to say about our ally Israel. Are you denying, discounting, or just deaf to these threats of genocide, and extinction of a nation? Do you believe Iran is an innocent and has nothing to do with armed conflicts in the Middle East? That's delusional.

March 1, 2007: Declares that the U.S. and Israel are behind every armed conflict everwhere. Jerusalem Newswire

January 23, 2007: During meeting with Syria’s foreign minister. U.S. and Israel “will soon come to the end of their lives.” Y Net News

December 20, 2006: Declared that Britain, Israel, and the U.S. would disappear like the Egyptian pharoahs. Iran Focus

December 12, 2006: 2nd day of Iran’s infamous Holocaust (denial) conference in Tehran. Said that Israel “will be wiped out soon.” Jerusalem Post

December 1, 2006: Doha, Qatar. Israel “on the verge of disappearing.” Jerusalem Post

November 13, 2006: At council meeting with Iranian ministers. Declares Iran “will soon witness [Israel’s] disappearance and destruction.” Y Net News

October 19, 2006: Called Israel the “greatest insult to human dignity.” Said Israel must be removed from the Middle East and called the Holocaust a “fairy tale.” M&C News

August 3, 2006: Said the solution to Middle East crisis is the destruction of Israel. Speech during “emergency meeting” of Muslim leaders in Putrajaya, Malaysia (?). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/03/AR2006080300629.html

July 22, 2006: Compared Israel to Hitler. “Just like Hitler, the Zionist regime is just looking for a pretext to launch military attacks.”

May 11, 2006, in Jakarta, Indonesia: Said the “evil regime” of Israel will soon be “annihilated.” Iran Focus

April 15, 2006: At opening of conference supporting the “Palestinians”. “Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation . . . . The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.” Said that “existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat” to the Middle East, and that “[i]ts existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations.”

February 11, 2006, in Tehran: Palestine and “other nations” will remove Israel from the Middle East. Holocaust is a “fairy tale.” Warns that “harsh” measures against Iran’s nuclear program will result in Iran walking away from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Bangkok Post World Net Daily

December 14, 2005: Suggested the Jews be relocated to Alaska. Turkish Weekly

December 8, 2005: Interview with Iranian state television’s satellite channel Al-Alam. Referred to Israel as a “tumor” and suggested it be relocated to Europe; also questioned the Holocaust. “If somebody in their country questions God, nobody says anything, but if somebody denies the myth of the massacre of Jews, the ‘Zionist’ loudspeakers and the governments in the pay of ‘Zionism’ will start to scream.” Turkish Weekly

October 26, 2005, speaking at the “World Without Zionism” conference in Tehran: “As the Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini] said, Israel must be wiped off the map.” And: “The Islamic [community] will not allow its historic enemy to live in its heartland . . . . anyone who signs a treaty which recognizes the entity of Israel means that he has signed the surrender of the Muslim world.” Al Jazeera Also: ”There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the world.” Anyone who recognizes Israel “will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury.” Jinsa Online

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