Letters to the Editor
Electro Robot
Published Letters: 1112 Editor's Choice: 9
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So why are separatist movements all the vogue now
[Read the article: A salute to Anacharsis Cloots]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sudan, Nigeria, Congo, SW Sahara, Colombia, Yemen, Lebanon, Ossetia, Chechnya, Georgia, Azerbijan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia are all experiencing protracted bloody interminable separatist movements that seem to fly in the face of this desire for one ginormous Unicorn ranch.
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Hepstyle
[Read the article: What did Clinton do wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Personally I don't care either way, my Democratic vote for President is a throwaway in my state. It is 100% symbolic.
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Hepstyle
[Read the article: What did Clinton do wrong?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was a primary not a general election. A primary. Turnout was a record breaking, I mean that literally, the greatest turnout ever, of 36%. Without running against the GOP. Sorry to burst your bubble but NC is not going to turn blue this year.
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Holly McLachlan
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Do you have the slightest bit of substance to add or is it just namecalling? Anyway since you're the self anointed authority then you should know the Aziris are a fairly marginalized and persecuted underclass in Iran.
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Anyway all of this is moot
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's just today's 'article' about how golly garshg we're going to bomb Iran tomorrow morning 7am bet the farm stop the presses I 1 billion percent guarantee it I have proof of those perfidious Jews who are the root of all evil.
Lather rinse repeat 2000 times in a row. Then write a book about how the media makes up news and advertise it on Salon, like Glenn Greenwald.
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BTW
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Inaccurate missiles of any given range are by design terror weapons that can only be used against unprotected urban centers. W/o advanced precision there is no military advantage in using an IRBM against any military target of worth. So in practical terms one needs to develop any reasonably long (enough) range IRBM that can hoist whatever weapon be it chemical, nuclear or biologic and forego the complex job of reducing the CEP to a military worthy range and what you've come up with is an entirely feasible and useful strategic weapon of terror. Which is kind of the point. Iran doesn't really care where its missiles can land so long as everyone else worries that will land somewhere.
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The Soviets overbuilt their strategic arsenal
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not to match us but to beat us. At the height of the Cold War the 3CP had about twice as many strategic nuclear missiles on alert as the US. Which means they had to build twice as many. Which means they spent twice as much. I don't know about you but I haven't seen any strategic nuclear weapons at Wal*Mart, they tend to be more expensive than that. It's not that we drove them to collapse it was that their economy couldn't handle BOTH a civilian consumer sector AND a military sector. You can have tanks but no cars. You can have submarines but not aluminum siding.
If you're interested in knowing something, which is debatable, you should read Richard Gid Powers' introduction to the book, "Secrecy" by D.P. Moynihan. It's quite informative on the point. Type in "Secrecy" on Amazon under 'Books' it should come up as the first entry.
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Baldie McEagle
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your words not mine but you never listen to anyone anyway. No it's a technical point that w/o accuracy a missile becomes a terror weapon. Or in your words "Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack"
There, was that clear?
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David Larry D
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Unfortunately virtually all of the 'facts' you folks point to are either made up or wrong and the people making them are blockheads who say "I will never listen to anyone who differs with me, instead I will just call them names, insult them and hope they go away. Aren't we brilliant"
And yes, as far as Glenn is concerned, if 90% of your columns bring these slime-people up to the surface to scream and rant, then it can't be an accident. What it is, is blog that's 95% op-Ed shaped in a way so that the reader thinks it's fact. But it's not, it's editorial and the really ironic thing, or cynical thing depending on your PoV is that Glenn constantly rails against everyone else doing exactly the same thing. Everyone else's opinions masquerading as fact are wrong.
Ain't it da Troof.
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Reilly
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You mean like the 18,000 unguided rockets fired into Israeli towns? Is that what you meant? Or did you mean bus bombings and carbombs?
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L.W.M
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And his role in the government is roughly equal to yours, e.g. none. I don't hear anyone quoting Ward Churchill and calling that policy or law, do you?
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Baldie McEagle
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]whatever you think is silly and wrong is probably a great start.
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Bleakest show?
[Read the article: Addicted to "Intervention" ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No. Most people at least give in and try to get help. Bleak would be a fistfight at the intervention followed by a quick escape and suicide. That would be bleak.
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Back in the day the CRT monitors were expensive big and heavy
[Read the article: Are laptop PCs the environmentally correct choice?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And used quite a bit of power. Flat screens, now, are lighter, easier to ship, more compact and use less power. So that's a wash vis a vis a laptop by and large unless you have a huge monitor. On the other hand virtually all personal computers are overpowered and generate more waste than need be. So it's 6 one half dozen the other. Via C7 designs are built for low power consumption but with it comes less performance. Probably less than most people have been conned into thinking is acceptable.
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So the last 60 years of civil wars are George Bush's fault?
[Read the article: A salute to Anacharsis Cloots]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]imagine that.
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Burn down the Jews
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]C'mon folks, at least be honest about it. Some of the posts here sound like Soviet era agitprop. I'm so glad Glenn is your inspiration, as it can only make his and your case lose credibility.
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Obviously
[Read the article: Clinton Veepstakes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It will some blood drinking Jew, with fangs and horns. C'mon people, stick with the script.
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I see everyone's still out hunting Jews
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bring the torches it's dark outside. Look out!!!!
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And this is what everyone is arguing for a 'measured withdrawal'?
[Read the article: Guns and water coolers in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously, leave. Leave tomorrow. Bail and don't look back. It's 9 kinds of screwed up.