Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1112 Editor's Choice: 9
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Perhaps if Salon's bestest friends, the Syrians
[Read the article: Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would either
a) allow foreign access (IAEA) to the site
b) stop constructing over it to obscure what was there
It could be conclusively proven and etched into stone that in fact all Jews are eeeeeevull then we could all go home lock arms and march onward to the Salomunist Proletariat Future.
See Glenn's main thesis is "I don't know what was there but the very fact that there's any consensus at all indicates to me a nefarious plot between the Jew Menace and the Booosh Regime".
"Dubious"? (your word) because you simply call it that? And yet both Algeria and Libya for YEARS covertly developed nuclear technology only to abandon it later on without anyone in the west ever being fully aware of it. That's simply a statement of fact. South Africa likewise developed atomic weapons on their own w/o anyone outside of SA ever being aware of it. Argentina and Brazil both had nuclear weapons programs in the 1970's and 80's that were completely black - only to abandon them before going public.
In fact the eeeevull Zhids themselves developed with French assistance, nuclear technology almost completely in the black.
But Syria? Bah! UM-Possible.
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My indie is way more obscure than your indie
[Read the article: Critics' Picks]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The greatest lost track of all time:
The Late Greats' "Turpentine"
You can't hear it on the radio
You can't hear it anywhere you go
The best band will never get signed
K-Settes starring Butcher's Blind
Are so good, you won't ever know
They never even played a show
You can't hear 'em on the radio
The greatest singer in rock and roll
Would have to be Romeo
His vocal chords are made of gold
He just looks a little too old
The greatest lost track of all time:
The Late Greats' "Turpentine"
I can't hear it on the radio
I don't hear it anywhere I go
The best song will never get sung
The best life never leaves your lungs
So good, you won't ever know
I never hear it on the radio
Can't hear it on the radio
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EEEENfidel!!! Heretic !!!! Apostate Bastard!!!
[Read the article: Krugman asks "what's gone wrong" with Obama campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The god of the desert is Obama. There is only one god.
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Odd that you would flip out, Glenn about this one piece of rhetoric
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Though I'm sure Indymedia, al Hayyat, the Muslim Brotherhood are making the most out of this. By the way, more Palestinians died in the intra-Palestinian fighting following the Hamas apparent victory in the 2006 elections than in the previous 6 years of the al Aqsa intifada. I'd also point out that while you are correct that Hamas per se doesn't really matter much to specifically American interests, there are not a 'single issue party.' They are as interested and vigorous at enforcing Sharia inspired compliance inside of Gaza than they are firing 8200 rockets (last count) into Israel. When Hamas took over Gaza, they locked up, beat up and killed their fair share of insufficiently Islamic Gazans, who are very very secular. They elected Hamas more to protest the PLO corruption and inefficiency, graft and crime than to prop up this offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Unfortunately for them (the Gazans) Hamas hasn't turned out to be any better at picking up the trash and running a state than the PLO was. This week alone, UN aid workers left Gaza after Hamas gunmen took their fuel. Not because they needed to reallocate it, because fuel shipments from Israel continue, but to take them out of circulation in order to exploit the PR of showing stringers for Reuters and AP darkened Gaza homes.
It's not clear what if anything McCain could or would do but it's largely rhetoric. I suppose your objection is that if anyone to the West of Greece says or does anything to anger any Arabs then that will be a catastrophe for the world, or something like that.
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Jordan threw out the PLO decades ago after they tried to overthrow the Hashemites in 1970.
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is why the PLO wound up in souther Lebanon fomenting civil war there. Since there are several hundred American special forces troops in Jordan today, Hamas probably sees that as a poor opportunity right now to wage a war.
BTW, the current king of Jordan's Great Grandfather was assassinated at the al Aqsa in 1951 by a Palestinian after he (the king) suggested that he could make peace with the state of Israel. Another reason why the Hashemites are not fond of rabble rousers.
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Hams is definitely NOT the Arab street
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So to speak. The Arab street, if such a thing exists, exists because of many things, the media, politics, the mosque. But the sharia inspired fundamentalism of Hamas is not popular.
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omooex
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read books and newspapers. Simply shouting insults at me doesn't make you right. It just makes you a Salon reader. So I'll ask you to detail these purported 5000, unless you read books too.
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But for shits and giggles read "History Upside Down"
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure of the page number, you'll have to check for yourself.
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I have a Soviet Army officer's winter hat
[Read the article: Flag day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the appropriate badge. Does that count?
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what good is Salon
[Read the article: Lust in translation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you can't blame someone for something?
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Again.
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But for shits and giggles read "History Upside Down"
I'm not sure of the page number, you'll have to check for yourself.
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Or in the words of some Palestinian protestors
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco on Thursday, July 12 "Al Yahud Kelabna"
Nice sentiment. Give them a gold star.
PS those aid figures are several years out of date. Current aid is ~1.9 billion of which 900 is civilian aid in the form of no interest loans. In addition, the US government buys (purchases) ~$4 billion worth of high tech gear from Israel. Israel exports about $9 billion to the US commercially. Aid to Israel is scheduled per an existing act of Congress to unwind to <$200 million a year in the next 4 years, roughly.
If you don't like that level of transfer of wealth, stop buying gasoline. It represents the single largest transfer of wealth, ever.
Also - Egypt receives 2.3 billion in direct military aid each year. The US cost to maintain troops in South Korea is $8-9 billion per year. The US cost to maintain troops in Germany is about $17 billion per year. The US cost to keep Taiwan and China apart is classified but it involves one full carrier group 24/365. The US gave the PA $450 million dollars last year in military aid and training which is more than they gave to the entire nation of Jordan. The countries in the region that do not house any US troops are Syria, Lebanon, Israel.
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One would think someone as fixed on Al Yahud Kelabna as GG
[Read the article: John McCain's serious foreign policy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]would at least pretend to be journalist and do some damn research once in a while. He should get a job with WaPo with shoddiness like what these hacks crank out:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201969_pf.html
Problem is the person named in the article "Conal Urquhart, a U.N. humanitarian affairs officer based in Gaza" Is in REALITY a reporter for the Guardian (UK) and not a UN officer of anything. Wow, talk about laziness and spin.
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What makes you think everyone wants to have sex with you?
[Read the article: Lust in translation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That you need to consult Lexis/Nexis for the precise wording of your order of protection?