Wait a minute sys. It's different when Bush Does it. When Bush does it, it's a model for sucess. When Obama talks about doing it, it's the end of the world.

Hornet, our resident pacifist, of course has a horror of attacking Pakistan. He's against unilateral attacks by the US.

Or are you just temperamentally predisposed to mindless cheerleading and jingoism at the expense of facts?

Jackie, press the link below the name "Read Shooter 242's other letters. They will all be there, in order, in the same format as the comments page.

You won't have to read very much to get a definitive answer to your question. You could also save yourself some effort with a little reading or quick skimming.

They told us that we did not matter, that we did not exist, that all was a joyous revel of humming "The Battle Hymn of the Republican."

While I certainly agree with you, I don't remember hearing that particular tune. I don't think it's quite "the stuff to give the troops" these days.

I heard a medley of "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Dixie"

For some folks it's a natural thing, for others it's a hard row to hoe. James Wolcott is funny, even droll. Michelle Malkin is funny, but unintentional

totally blase

You know, people laugh at me sometimes. They've said so and I've seen them do it. You might mention that.

In fact, I got a little chuckle at the irony of putting "Shooter" and "straight" in the same subject line

These days, pal, you gotta get 'em where you can.

That's our Shooter!

This is something which the government cannot be trusted to do

Gee, Aych, I remember both a class on advertising techniques and even some very crucial sex education. (I learned how babies were born and decided I wanted very little to do with the process.)

"Health" education. The classes were embarassing and the teaching techniques not to sophisticated, but it got the job done. For me, anyway.

And considering my erotic progress in high school, most of my female classmates.

Just a very average LI school. In 1965-7

and the teaching techniques not to sophisticated,

The grammar and spelling were lax, too, huh?

Fairness is all I desire

Not you, too! Didn't they tell you growing up, life isn't fair?

And if your furore scribendi isn't evidence of that, I'll eat my new Austrailian "crusher"

Put most simply, once you accept that the United States is, to use the parlance, on a perpetual war footing, and that the lion's share of its resources is devoted to the military and the "national security of the homeland",

And they can do this without imposing conscription, or killing enough Americans in places their friends and family can't find on a map that young men become, well, reluctant, to join up?

Cause you can run into problems with that.

So the real question is, why have we tolerated this whole news analyst nonsense to begin with?

Loss of the Fairness Doctrine, and loss of public service requirements in broadcasting.

So the news becomes like the vaudeville shows in the early part of the last century. Who ever is a "draw" gets on, and in a tableau designed to show them to their best advantage.

Those Generals might as well be doing cross-talk acts or Pat'n Mike jokes.

Don't forget media consolidation- which makes an "entertainment" enterprise a small potato in the overall corporation and subject to pressures over and above that of ratings. And they don't want it to be a hot potato, so co-operating with the Government is a given.

I'd like to know your argument as to why this isn't good policy.

No, you don't. You really don't.

"The murder rate in Holland is double that in the United States. . . . That's drugs."

--drug czar Barry McCaffrey

I'm on my way! Can you get there on a motorcycle?

Wooden shoes and windmills here I come.

Oh, I was just going off on a little tangent. I only meant to stress that very militaristic societies are very short-lived, in their fightin' stage. The drain on population and financial resources make for a bad situation.

Very exciting news for all Greenwald commentors this morning!!!

Reports in a great Variety of entertainment publications indicate that Micheal M'Chem and Pim Sh'mayi, Israeli movie producers, have skyed in from the coast to pact many of our leading men and ladies to an epic political adventure thriller based on the collected comments from Glenn's column!

(And I also found out that I, Derbig Mooser, will be portrayed either by Jacob Adler or James Earl Jones! Wow! Can you believe it? Neither could I.)

Anyway, please indicate your choice of mummer. Some of the commentors are considered so unique, they will be offered parts playing themselves, as they do now. Gentlemen, start your agents!

LWM, of course, is already involved with a new production of Dicken's "Christmas Carol" in which he plays the ghost of Marley. You know "This is the chain I forged in life, link by link"!