Letters to the Editor
Derbig Mooser
Published Letters: 2174
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Enough with the phone calls and e-mails, already!
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's usually explained like this, and my Dad told me this personal, too:
A schlemiel walks through the forest, and the trees fall down. The schlamazel follows him, and he's the one the trees fall on.
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Mona-ing Low
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She posts once in a while, but she left because (I am guessing obviously) she thought more of you than the principle of the thing.
It's really too bad, too. All she wanted was a little fairness.
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@Celery
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"asparagus"
Jeez, that stuff takes a long time to grow! Years before there's any real production. It's good, tho.
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Air Supremacy
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've just noticed something- Our Shooter is a lot like John McCain. No matter how many times he gets shot down, he never gives up!
As many as five or six posters scored direct hits on his little rhetorical contraption, but he just keeps on going.
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All Those Jobs in the Security Industry.
[Read the article: Larry Di Rita's responses to questions about the "military analyst" program]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As we start to examine the ever-expanding ripples of propaganda disseminated by the Bush administratrion at some point the question must be asked: Is the whole "terrorist threat" a hoax? This "terrorist threat" has been integrated into our thinking and has spawned an industry. The "terrorist threat" is the ostensible reason for each sacrifice of civil rights and each diminuition of privacy.
Could it be that the entire "terrorist threat" as it applies to America and our lives here, is nothing but an "information-services" creation. The air of imminent attack just a special effect. A special affect, actually.
Certainly, 9-11 happened, as did the other bombings, but turning these events into a narrative of ongoing attack and war was, and is, a hoax.
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Really Dumb
[Read the article: Finding Obama guilty of insufficient devotion to Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Long after all other religions (excepting, now I think of it, Islam) had abandoned any pretense of being, in and of themselves sufficient as an organising basis for a country, let alone a colonial project, a bunch of novelists, fanatics and public relations experts sold that idea to the Jews. And we were just desperate enough to bite.
And so the most precious thing Judaism had, a religion and culture which could survive all over the world, became hostage to the exigencies of manning a western bridgehead in the Middle East.
So all of a sudden Jews had a country. Something we needed like a hole in the head, frankly, and especially where they decided it just had to be, in their fantasy "Holy Land".
Perhaps some Zionist can refresh my Jewish mind; What was it Jews were supposed to do for God in Israel that they couldn't do anywhere else?
And what was it God was supposed to do for the Jews in Israel that he couldn't do for them (or not do, as He chooses) anywhere else?
I never have figured that out.
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@JKP1000
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hi. I don't think there is an "ignore this person" feature here, but I am no completely familiar with Salons features.
However, on the "send a letter" page there is a line at the bottom:
If you are experiencing a problem with our Letters feature or wish to complain about a letter, please send us e-mail at: lettersproblems@salon.com.
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Sorry for interrupting
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but I just wanted to mention that if a person should hit that "read other letters" button, they will find all of a correspondent's letters in a format just like the "Letters" pages.
It might be a good thing to do if a person like you or me wanted to get a sense of whether a poster is worth your time.
And aren't we all, as the great Bob Dylan (nee' Zimmerman) noted: tired of wasting all my precious time?
Oh, don't think twice, it's all right!
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@Reality Based Liberal
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My statement is not hyperbolic. Our national discourse has built-in preferences for those who advocate evil
I agree completely- what our national discourse has a preference for, in its bankruptcy, is film and scenario ideas which a producer would call "bankable". Given we could pact with some big-name stars.
Once any societal obligation to present facts was removed from the broadcast industry, the factual reporting sunk to the level of a crude melodrama, to match and compliment the featured fictional material. At last, complete unity between entertainment and news was achieved. A new military invasion carried no more responsibility than shooting a new adventure blockbuster.
But everybody's heard me rant about this before, so I'll stop.
But yeah, it is sad.
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Speaking of Which...
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Military analysts named in Times exposé appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR
http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130001
A wonderful example of viral marketing, wasn't it?
It is gonna turn out that the entire "terrorist threat" in terms of how much America was endangered and what America needed to do about it, and could do about it, was a hoax!
My apologies to any who work in the "security" industry.
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@Howard
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"They muddy their waters to make them look deep"
So that's how the "Big Muddy" got that way!
Push On.
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I Get No Dizzy Spells, Celery
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's gotta be love!
C'mon, man, this can't be love, because I feel so well! No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs!
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@ Michael B. English
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"They muddy the waters to make them look deep"
And up you pop!
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Long Time Gone...
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We are apart of every person we have ever met.
A remember having to memorise a poem when I went to school in Syosset, which began "No Man is Long Island".
It has always been an inspiration to me, and I got out of there as soon as I could.