Letters to the Editor
Derbig Mooser
Published Letters: 1536
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Outrage
[Read the article: Today]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As long as American Idol is on the tv, and they can go shopping.
Having lived at the time, and nearly been drafted for, the Vietnam war and now this War On Iraq, I know it's a really mundane conclusion, but I think the difference is: No draft!
There is simply no reason to imagine yourself, or your loved ones, in Iraq against their will and being injured or killed. The money doesn't seem to matter, the loss of civil protections in the US doesn't seem to matter. So until there's a draft, why not let them have a war, if it amuses them?
Gee! Maybe if the Democratic President elected in this election let's them have their war, they will give us our health insurance! Sounds like a bipartisan plan!
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@ Northwestwoods
[Read the article: Today]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for responding. BTW, it occurred to me this morning that if the recession is bad enough, even conscription won't wake us up. After all "three hots and a cot" might look good, especially if it was combined with, I don't know, a little debt forgiveness as an conscription bonus?
Anyway, thanks again for responding.
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"The Clintons did pimp out their daughter."
[Read the article: Chris Wallace: Probing, hard-nosed journalist]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The Clintons did pimp out their daughter."
Care to tell us how they did this, Shooter242?
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Government is better than Religion!
[Read the article: Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With religion, you gotta do penance, but with government you get your absolution by a simple vote! The secular state marches on!
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@Prunes.
[Read the article: CNN's John Roberts helps out Mike McConnell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Damn you say some stupid stuff.
Yeah, but there is a sort of small, hobgobliny consistency to it, tho. It's like a distilled essence of every bad political and spy thriller, but dragged through a sort of Boys Own sieve.
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The Nub or Center of the Controversy
[Read the article: CNN's John Roberts helps out Mike McConnell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]warrantless wiretapping would be an egregious violation of the provisions of the 4th Amendment, which concisely disallows searches without warrants.
Cry Havoc
And they would never do that! Case closed.
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A Foeman Worthy of Our Steel
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Moslem aircraft carriers, protected by fleets of Moslem airplanes firing Moslem guided missles built in their own countries with their own resources start threatening our coasts, call me.
Cause when you come right down to it, they have all the weapons in the world they can get from us.
And personally, having faced down the Russian Bear and bearded him in his lair (what does that mean, anyhow?) I'd be embarrassed to say I was worried about any entity which did not at least have a comparable military and political cohesion, not to mention the plentiful natural and technical resources.
I'm not gonna go back to being afraid of the Barbary Pirates or the Ottoman Empire.
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@ slancio103
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for supplying the mot juste (whatever the hell that means.
Edification and efficacy go hand-in-glove (whatever in tarnation that means) with slancio103!
And where is "tarnation"?
I wish I could keep my mind on the impending clash of civilisations, but it's too many for me.
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No Wonder You're Retired!
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We need to convince all those defense corporations to husband their energy and make the next boogeyman Mrs. Global Warming or Mr. Aids Poverty...
No, no, that won't do at all! Don't you know that a single penny spent on amwliorating those or any other social, economic and enviornmental does over a thousand dollars worth of damage to every citizen! "Why and how"?, you might ask, and I'm going to assume you did!
It's because of the inescapable, inexorable but oh, so effable unintended negative repercussions of Altruism! See the study on this from the Rand Corporation, or was it Ayn Rand, I forget. But man, it's worse than meth, are those U.N.R.o'A.! First they take your morals, than your mind and the next thing you know, you're trying to mail in your affirmative auction forms using food stamps as postage. It's a mess. You can't put food stamps on your family.
On the other hand, foreign interventions on borrowed money, to no gain and much loss, are never to be questioned, cause after all "War is Good For the Economy". You are not, by any chance, opposed to the economy, are you?
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Here I go Again!
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Republican ideology so perfectly reflects movies and TV because that's what it's designed to do. Look, if you were trying to appeal to someone whose entire education is centered around the Bible, you would try to use the Good Book to back up your point of view. When you are dealing with people who have spent more time watching the media's depiction of reality, than with reality itself, well, you have to use the melodrama (which unites almost all of our popular entertainment under its rubric) which they mistake for real life as the basis for your claims and comparisons.
Since American media was made and honed to a high degree of effectiveness in presenting the melodramatic narrative and contexts the media is just better, and much more eager to, present a viewpoint which is tailored to melodramatic presentation.
I have often postulated (we sit around and postulate a lot up here during the long, winter nights) that any Neo-con or Republican speech could be footnoted, not with references to policy papers and factual studiesm but instead with the particular film or TV show from which any particular "fact" or context was gleaned.
Usually, when someone says :"You're just niave about how the world works" (or words to that effect) they mean:"You and I have not seen the same movies"
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@ nicteis
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would say that in the mane, you are correct.
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Why Court Certain Destruction?
[Read the article: The fun and excitement of civilization wars (fought from afar)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I ask, because if you are pricks about the whole thing, this step forward will be withdrawn.
Gosh, Shooter, maybe you could plead with Steyn for us? Tell him we were joking! I just don't know what we will do if "this step forward will be withdrawn"