Letters to the Editor
Bengt Larsson
Published Letters: 39
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Wingnuts getting help from abroad
[Read the article: Foreign influences on our elections -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, they are to cowardly to argue against Democratic candidates, now they have to have help from abroad? Alexander Downer is a real downer.
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Glenn Reynolds not valuing life, much, and the blogosphere
[Read the article: Extremist Bush supporter calls for murder of scientists]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn Reynolds have written similar things before. I wonder from these instances if he values human life higher than property -- say a man's son vs. a man's car.
As for endorsing murder (of civilians or agitators) in foreign countries, I don't think Reynolds should be censured at his university. However, he is very widely linked to on blogs in general, and if he continues with eliminationist rhetoric he shouldn't be as widely linked to or at least not praised in the blogosphere. It would be a kind of Internet censure.
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Great thread
[Read the article: Neoconservatives hate liberty as much as they love war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was a really great thread.
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nabalzbbfr:
[Read the article: Several items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever Lincoln may have said or not said is beside the point. The important thing is that the Democrat congress-critters have misjudged the American people and overplayed their hand, and they will be held to account. They will be hanged, in effigy at least. President Bush and the Republicans in Congress are starting to win the debate. Watch for a political surge for President Bush, as David Broder notes in his WaPo column yesterday:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501271.html
The Iran war is off the table. Neener neener.
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Bipartisanship can be a mental straightjacket
[Read the article: David Broder's "seriousness"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My take on Broder's column is slightly different. Broder really likes bipartisanship and comity in Washington. The only way towards that is to praise the Democrats when they do what Bush wants, or to praise Bush when he is a little less bullying than usual.
Bush and his ilk are (verbal) bullies, and Broder does not stand up to them. Thus, you get fellatio of Bush for even small gestures (even after 6 years!), and condescending comments about Democrats, because that's the only thing that remains to say - unless you were to cover political conflicts, and such.
Worse, you would have to cover issues rather than bipartisanship (which is really inside baseball) -- you would have to cover issues where you can hardly say anything without taking sides.
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daleyrocks:
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like most of the left, Odom is actually ignorant or pretends ignorance on the atrocities committed under Saddam Hussein.
You shouldn't lie, daleyrocks. You don't care at all what happens to the Iraqis.
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Re: Hitler obsession
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me address this to any members of the "Victory Caucus". Your (political) leaders are wrong. Ahmadinejad is no new Hitler.
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Re: Odious Odom
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]daleyrocks: I wonder if Odom was giving out the same kind of answers during the Reagan administration that he was during the interview with Hewitt. Somehow, "I don't know what's going to happen in Iraq if we pull out, but it doesn't matter," doesn't pass the smell test for serious policy analysis. Strike that, it might in a Democratic administration.
It's interesting that you have no argument, instead it's pure ad hominem. And with catchy alliteration, at that.
Your political leaders are simply wrong and if you want to have your own opinion you should do some research on the Middle East. For example, America has a lot of military power and is threatening Iran, Iran has much less military power and is not threatening America. It's very different from Hitler in WWII, ie in this aspect Ahmadinejad is not like Hitler.
Ahmadinejad is not even an anti-Semite. There were even some Jews visiting at his odious Holocaust conference. They happen to be a small Jewish sect who is against the existence of Israel. They are very Jewish otherwise with dreadlocks and all. Ahmadinejad welcomed them warmly. So he's anti-Israel, but not anti-Jewish.
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Re: Odious Odom
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]daleyrocks: Bengt - Very dishonest of you to say Iran is not threatening America. While perhaps technically not threatening the U.S. in North America, there is a demonstrated history of threats and violence against the U.S. abroad. How easily they forget!
You mean attack on American troops in Lebanon? Hezbollah wasn't formed then. Lebanon is not America, no?
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The definition of victory comes from the leader
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can't help you Robert if you have missed the president describe what he describes as victory on numerous occasions. Do you believe we are losing? If so, by what measures?
Well, I believe he defines victory as a functioning democracy that can control the country. The problem is, Americans are not Iraqis, and can't fight on behalf of Iraqis to establish that democracy. They - Iraqis - would have to control the country themselves.
The victory in "Victory Caucus" is defined by the leader. If the leader defined victory in some other way, the followers would follow.
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Iran "is threatening" the US
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]daleyrocks: Bengt - Very dishonest of you to say Iran is not threatening America.
One more comment on this. As far as I can see there is no present threat by Iran on America, so there is no current "Iran is threatening America". There is, however, quite a lot of "America threatening Iran" currently.
As for what was in the past, should past conflicts be revived? Should America go to war with Britain? How about a war with Japan? And what about Vietnam, where President Bush was on a diplomatic visit not that long ago?
In other words, regardless of what was in the past in re Iran -- get over it!
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OK, one more
[Read the article: Gen. Odom explains basic reality to Hugh Hewitt and the "Victory Caucus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bengt - Very dishonest of you to say Iran is not threatening America.
I wasn't dishonest, certain other people signing daleyrocks, were.
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Titus Pullo
[Read the article: A hallmark of idiocy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leftwingers love America, they just don't love it the way you do. Rightwingers do not have special rights to a piece of geography.
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Titus Pullo: again
[Read the article: A hallmark of idiocy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I should perhaps add: people of a rightwing culture don't have a right to either kill or physically abuse other people just because they feel rightwing culture is threatened. Especially not if the threats are merely words of disagreement. It's usually the right wing who phone up people with death threats.