Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 3067
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More on Dung
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I have a better mission for Rep. Schakowsky. Report back...
I had to add, Eledung, that your attempts at humor are worse than pathetic. Do yourself and all of us a favor and just bite it when you feel a "joke" about to spill out of your addled mind. Please?
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Casual
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can we be more specific, and give Alphabet his due?
-- casual_observer
Not exactly. For example Alphabet said the Iraq Study Group was made up of "wise old Men". The "wise" part is highly arguable. Alphabet also made the statement that the Iraq Study Group was basically calling for withdrawal. Whatever it was the Iraq Study Group did they didn't use language strong enough to move things in the direction of withdrawal. They parsed most everything they wrote and were, for the most part, pantywastes.
Glenn also mentioned the Washington Post in his list of 'war cheerleaders'. That's true of Fred Hiatt and the WaPo editorial staff in general. They would be the most noted voice of the Washington Post, wouldn't they? So calling the Washington Post cheerleaders for the war would be, for the most part, accurate.
On the other hand, Washington Post columnist, Dan Froomkin, for example, is not a cheerleader for the war. Does that mean that Glenn's having put the Post in the Cheerleader column was incorrect? I don't think so.
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gadAlphabet
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]A ridiculous exercise in nonsense to make a big thing out of the spelling. What the hell was the point of that? Was that your way of claiming some victory in some piss of a game.
What I meant to - and did - say was that those guys didn't get it done with their language and their report. They knew who and what they were dealing with in George W Bush and his adminstration. If "the wise old men mostly think the war is a mess and a strategic blunder", and they really wanted to get their point across that we need to get out of Iraq, then they could have and should have just said so in no uncertain terms. They didn't go nearly far enough in their language.
Thus, given the the enormousness of the opportunity that they were given and squandered they might not be rightly coined as war cheerleaders, but they sure are a bunch of screw ups for having not done a more honest job than what they did.
You are giving them the benefit of the doubt. I most certainly am not.
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From the Interview
[Read the article: The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]O'Hanlon speaking of the fairness of skepticism of his record.
"So, that's one more way of saying that I think it's only fair that there be scrutiny of people's record."
--O'HanlonAs what he says in his quote makes clear, he said that same thing in a number of ways. Why does he find it necessary to say something once, much less several times, that is as obvious as saying something like, It's only fair that if one says they have blond hair, even as they are standing in front of you with dark brown hair, it's only fair to scrutinize what they are saying and, consequently, their record? Is there any question at all that skepticism is warranted due to how O'Hanlon has conducted himself? Of course there isn't.
O'Hanlon must think that throwing that pitiful bone to those who are skeptical or critical of his writings and interviews should or could cause questioners of his lack of credibility to ease off. That's not likely to happen.
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cest
[Read the article: The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Given its costs [the Iraq war and occupation] - in lives, American credibility, money, regional turmoil - as well as given its INHERENT unjustifiability, the Iraq war can never be "worth it," EVEN IF "the general assessment among the public and scholars" 25 years from now believes it[the Iraq war and occupation] is. That will just mean they are wrong, and I care about reality, not perceptions."
--GG
(My emphasis)
If you truly believe that no possible positive outcome could EVER justify losing "lives, American credibiliy, money, regional turmoil," that's a coherent position, but again, one with which I disagree.
--cestmoi123
In your reply, cest, you are short on the specifics of Glenn's quote, thus, like a snake and a worm, you are f'ing with what he actually said to suit your theme.
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Blathering shooter
[Read the article: The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's wait and see if Glenn clarifies his stance.
-- shooter242
Fortunately for Glenn, he has a whole lot more sense than I do. I say that because I can't remember the last time, if ever, he bothered to reply to anything you posted.
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What's a Salonista?
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They're not coming, they're HERE.
Glenn can make a good case that the likelihood of the complete takeover of America by Islamist extremists is unlikely. That it's paranoid. Irrational.
I think the same is true regarding salonistas who claim our constitution is being shredded, due to NSA intercepts of suspected terrorist phone calls.--notorbitboy
There aren't any "salonistas" who claim our constitution is being shredded due to NSA intercepts of suspected terrorist phone calls.
You've left out absolutely everything that is in question on the NSA subject, and you've dropped in one idiotic strawman statement with which to make your "argument".
By the way, Glenn didn't argue that Islam takeover is "unlikely". If he has argued anything at all on that matter he has argued that it is out of the realm of possibility.
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Cripesonacracker!
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]3. Rather than call Hitchens a drunk, I suggest you read his columns. Salon columnists will not provide you with an alternate point of view. This is a way to get past your blinder problem.
-- NotOrbitBoy
I didn't know the bars of Salon were locked. We have no way out of here? Help! Will you, Notorbitboy, and Christopher Hitchens please come and save us? We're trapped in the musty Salon! Your refreshing sanity has me convinced.