Letters to the Editor
Derbig Mooser
Published Letters: 1522
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Around 1970
[Read the article: The rigid pro-war ideology of the foreign policy community]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Americans fell prey to a weird disease, with alarming psychological symptoms. They became, apparently, unable to relate the act of sexual intercourse to pregnancy and child production.
The result of this is a whole generationa and a half of unwanted or only nominally wanted children.
The most pratical solution is to send them off to war, and that is what we will do.
It's easy to get in a war, all you have to do is take no steps to avoid it. It's even easier if you would like to go to war.
War and a draft will get these kids offa' the couch and outa' the house. The Army, of course, builds character. As proof, look at any combat fatality- not a sign of PTSD, and no irrespectful backtalk. In addition, getting limbs blown off gets rid of those ill-advised tattoos!
America is looking forward to a dim future, unless all of our boys and girls, excepting those whose parents make enough money, or know the draft board members, get the training and experience which was so valuable to the greatest degeneration.
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Not much has changed
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I said it in 2003, and I'll say it again: No country which makes thier children wear bicycle helmets, and is concerned about them breathing secon-hand cigarette smoke will comquer the world
And the terribly inefficient "family" method of providing cannon fodder has got to go. Along with any restrictions on sex, rape, it's all good. A breeding-farm model in which children are raised by the state, or given by parents to the state in exchange for non-foreclosure, or simply sold to the Armed Forces in infancy to be raised as "warriors" is the only pratical model for empire, sorry Empire.
You can't win if you can't out-breed 'em. So let's get busy, girls. Open your legs, and open the future to America.
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The State of Saddam's Armaments
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure. It would have been better to leave us wondering what the true state of Saddam's armaments were,
Shooter
When the US Army staged in Kuwait, and then advanced into Iraq without any tactical protection, or strategic plans to deal with a chemical, biological or nuclear attack, well, we got a pretty good idea of what they thought of Saddam's "armaments"
They were pretty sure he didn't have any, or we have the most incompetent leaders ever. Your choice.
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The Argument You're Making...
[Read the article: Reply to Dan Drezner]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The argument you are making is that OBL was an agent of the Afghani government. Does that fit the facts?
Shooter
The argument you're always making is that Saddam was an agent of the Iraqi people. Or conversely, the Iraqi people were agents of Saddam. Does that fit the facts?
And BTW, The Taliban would have got noplace with out help from, wait for it, our loyal allies, the Pakistanis.
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Troop Supporters and the Oracles
[Read the article: Ending the war vs. supporting the troops]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First of all, let's give credit where credit is due. The Pentagon has decided to support the troops by shortening their deployments from 730 days to, wait for it...729 days! They did this for the most patriotic of reasons: a deployment of 730 or more will rate full benefits. By stopping the deployment one day short of that, no bennies. Doesn't matter, it's not the cumulative time that matters, but the number of days in a single deployment.
Second, you won't have Mooser to kick around anymore. I'm headed over to that IMdB place. I have a hunch that if IMdB has a data base of movie plot synopses, I can find the specific origins of almost all of our foreign policy, causes and effects.
This is a project I will need help on. But it would be nice to answer a Very Serious Person by citing the title of the film from which they get either their "facts" or their policy.
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Update II
[Read the article: Mike McConnell's clear explanation of FISA]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr Greenwald, if you ever take up archery, William Tell will have to sneak out of town, with his cocyx between his legs. You score a bullseye every time. I don't care if the Serious People say it's just the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, you ring the bell every time and get the cigar or coconut, according to choice.
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Poor Mr. Craig...
[Read the article: Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...was arrested for some lascivious foot-tapping and some homo-erotic gym-bag placement. So he got to find out what it's like to live in the world of permanent homosexual panic where the smallest gesture can be prosecuted, successfully as a sex crime.
Welcome to the world you helped make, Mr. Craig, and welcome to it.
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Jeffery P. Harrison
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is exceptionally stupid.
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Sin? what about crime?
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No matter what your take on the relative sinfullness of Vitter and Craig, why can't we discuss this in terms of criminal behavior.
Solicitation for prostitution is a crime, and so is ignoring the "lewd displays" law and having or soliciting sex in a public place.
BTW if "covenent marriage" produces children with the psychopathy of Dave Huckabee (Kills and tortures dogs and other animals) maybe it's not a good thing.
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A made man in the world he made.
[Read the article: Forcing Larry Craig's resignation while embracing David Vitter]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But because some undercover police officer hanging out in a men's bathroom was next door, the guy got arrested for "lewd conduct". I say the crime here was more in the officer's mind, then in anything Sen. Craig did.
Awww, poor Mr. Craig, he got caught up in our national homosexual panic, and convicted of tapping his foot, gaily.
Welcome to the world you helped make, Larry, and you're welcome to it. Or are all the laws which allow policieman to judge the sexual content of your back-beat (all for the children, natch.) a High-Broderian bi-partisan effort.
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I been tryin' to tell ya'...
[Read the article: Warrantless surveillance and the new Coretta Scott King disclosures]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And I'm gonna tell you again:
They are not eavesdropping to find out what you are doing wrong.
They are eavesdropping to find out what you are doing right!
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You can be a murderer...
[Read the article: National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and point out that murder is wrong and that other people shouldn't commit murder.
Orson
I must commend Orson. It's so seldom you see the heart of right-wing philosophy so cogently and succinctly expressed. Plaudits, my friend.