That was over the line and I rescind it and offer apologies.

Calling it "willful ignorance" would have more than sufficed.

And what's with your obsession with my education? I mentioned it in passing well over a year ago, and you seem to think it has great meaning. My arguments exist on their merits. Only in the pundit class do they make the appeal to authority fallacy,

Heh. You used it, in an effort to enhance your authority to smack me down in an argument early in your history of commenting here. And the biggest fallacy in it was the fact that it wasn't true. I mention it to remind people that you have lied here before, even though they already know that you continue to lie here. Here's the history for anyone who's interested (apologies to those who aren't):

Uhm, no. I do not yet have a Ph.D. and never claimed I did. Perhaps you're confusing me with someone else. -- Winsmith

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/26/israel/permalink/51cea0d71e56868f7b8c8ddcb172d9c2.html

I'm not confusing you with anyone else. I remember conversations I have with supreme assholes and we had a conversation back in October of 2007, which was the first time you burst onto the scene here waving your tiny arms and spouting pages of your "David Duke" shit.

On October 6, 2007 at 4:41pm you wrote the following:

Indeed it does, Paul. And yes, I will match you smarty pants. Yes I'm a Ph.D. and no, you're not as smart as you think you are. -- WinSmith

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/06/various_items/permalink/518a7269c3335c4887a4e969ca00420d.html

Then a little later you insulted my intelligence with this little pat on the head:

I don't expect you'll be able to parse this difference, I'm sure you'll toss another witty insult my way,

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/06/various_items/permalink/f7e94d4f37b7de5ce91e45c708420aec.html

To which I then responded:

I wasn't trying to be witty. I don't like to be vulgar, but I'm gonna one-up Mona and maybe you'll find this funny.

Fuck you and the uppity Ph.D. you rode in on.

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/06/various_items/permalink/e4b9a0d34c9b56bf62b5e5898a862de8.html

Your Iranian electric car fantasy has to win the prize for funniest reach of the week.

Really? You need to brush up on some history. They've been around since 1832. Funny that you think Iran is savvy enough to build a bomb but too stupid to think about using electric cars.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarselectrica.htm

Tossing around words like "hegemony" to sound smart wouldn't get a passing grade in freshman year comp.

I aced comp and every other English class I ever took. Have you figured out how to spell "plausible" yet? I used the word that exactly described what I meant:

1 : preponderant influence or authority over others : domination

I just left out a word that I'll add here: It's about Israeli hegemony. Yup, "hegemony" is exactly what I meant. Glad I could save you time looking it up for yourself.

That's exactly what Glenn is doing. He's arguing Iran should be held to the same standard as any other country, Israel included.

Yeah, it must have disappointed you terribly to hear this line from Obama's speech then at the G20:

Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow

I hope he meant it.

did you just say that there weren't 70 Jewish virgins?

He did.

He also explained why the notion of other destruction in the interest of rewards in the here and now are not such a big problem.

I don't trust ultra-religious people with military power.

....but here are some quotes from people who should also not have been able to wield military power, let alone get their hands on nuclear weapons:

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."

-- Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969.

"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."

-- Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.

and this:

"[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."

-- Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the 'Beasts,"' New Statesman, June 25, 1982.

and this:

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."

-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

and this:

"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more"....

-- Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000

and this:

"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

Israel has a lengthy history of empowering it's very own brand of nutjobs.

If we could lose our mind from one terrorist attack and invade the wrong country, Israel's response to thousands of attacks over years from across its border still strikes me as historically muted (how would any other country respond in Israel's place? Can you name one would would respond with less militarism than Israel?)

Who did Spain invade after the Madrid bombings? Who did Indonesia invade after the Bali bombings?