Letters to the Editor
mr snoid
Published Letters: 146
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Troll Befuddlement
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hi folks. I have been lurking here for about a month to my great enlightenment and pleasure. Only one thing I don't understand - why so much confusion about the trolls? Shooter (and this applies to several others) is a Bebe gun. Just because he is not as clever as many of you does not mean he is not consistent. Everything follows.
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W.T.
[Read the article: Chris Dodd on FISA, habeas corpus and Democratic capitulation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I dreamed I saw that dude. Just last night.
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UofC
[Read the article: Thomas Sowell offers superb Exhibit of the Right-wing Mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a proud graduate of the College of the University of Chicago ('67), I would like to comment blaming in the UC style as many victims as possible. First @e_five, forget Northwestern. The only reason a UC student was supposed to set foot at Northwestern was to "get laid" because our own girls' attractiveness was in inverse proportion to their intelligence and they were all really smart. The Northwestern girls were beautiful...It's true that I have been married to a Northwestern graduate for 30 years, but if the conversation lags, it's definitely her fault. Now, about @DCLaw1's beautiful post about "the hollowing out of our nation's soul," it's the DFHs' fault. After leaving UC, I went proceeded directly to the center of the newly hatched DFH conspiracy, the History of Consciousness program at the University of California @ Santa Cruz. I sat around stoned contemplating this phenomenon. It seems that the DFH's took the bourgeoisie's central mantra "careers open to talent" and stood it on its head, "talent closed to careers." It was a though the American economy was heating up too fast and we (whose SAT scores had peaked in '63) decided to slow it down. So we "dropped out" and that was good for about 10 years of confusion until America decided to make up for lost time. That, DCLaw1, is what happened around 1980. By jove, the YIPPIES had turned into YUPPIES and the greed decade was upon us. This was accompanied by the great turn to the Right for which I blame the blacks. The response to the Great Society was such that if it weren't for the Bush Adminstration, the Dems wouldn't have much to go on, would they? Finally, the Bush Adminstration - I blame that on the Soviet Union. More precisely, I blame the neoconservative ideologues on the Soviet Union. Has there been any greater American intellectual tragedy than Jews (yes, Anonymous, I know) go right? Makes one long for Trotsky-time.
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@conservativeslayer
[Read the article: Thomas Sowell offers superb Exhibit of the Right-wing Mind]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was neither Friedman nor Strauss, but rather "The Undertaker," Alan Greenspan, who was a Randian.
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Talleyrand
[Read the article: The art of neoconservative innuendo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leden's Talleyrand quote has nothing to do with protecting himself against prosecution. He has no such thoughts. It is a neoconservative declaration of contempt for the rule of law. The "blunder" was not realizing at the time what a big-time enemy of Israel Iran was to become. Innuendo becomes the rule for these people because they feel they have to disguise what country they are operating in the interests of.
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Lieberman Gambit
[Read the article: Giuliani's proposal for endless Middle East wars on behalf of Israel ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Couldn't Giuliani's floating of this idea be seen as a Lieberman gambit? Strong pro-Israeli sentiment is at least as prevalent in the Democratic as in the Republican party. If you can skim off the cream of such support add add it to your natural Republican base, could be a decisive advantage. Another unfortunate factor is that just when some sanity was being injected into the debate (Mearsheimer & Walt), this probably shifts the window to the right again.
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Neocon wet dream
[Read the article: The ADL purports to respond again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Israel has always been in a cold/hot war with its islamist neighbors since its founding. The genius of Osama Bin Ladin was to fulfill the neocon wet dream of officially enlisting the US government on Israel's side. Dogs, tails, hegemons, it's all there. In this context the Iraq war makes little sense unless Iran is also attacked. What chaos is that going to throw American politics into! Especially if Israel is then attacked by Iran The dominant line now seems to be that even though, as Sy Hersh points out, AIPAC has even more control over Democrats than Republicans, the Dems lack the "resolve" that the PNAC/Clean Break folks have. Thus the attack must be carried out before the election. This has the added advantage of rolling the dice on the election itself and putting Hillary in a heck of a position for which she has tried to prepare herself by voting for the latest Lieberman amendment.
The fun we are having with the ADL now may be put into an unfortunate perspective of insignificance soon.
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@Betting on Iraq
[Read the article: A nation of Rich Lowrys]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd rather bet my money on Cocktailhag than Bay Buchanan.
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Sole Superpower
[Read the article: Anonymous Liberal for Glenn Greenwald: The incoherence of the competing rationales for war with Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The RWAs believe that US dominance of the Middle East achieves so many wonderful things: cleaning up the neighborhood for the Israelis, creating US friendly governments in oil rich states for our future energy needs, boosting the "unitary executive" by perpetual war fear, and blunting any future possible political challenges from "islamofascists," that there needs be no further justification for any kind of aggressive behavior on our part. These grand ends justify any means and rationalizations to accomplish them. Consistency not required. Actual rationality, of course, has already been lost in the vision and choice of these ends in the first place, because there just ain't no way of getting from here to there. Power corrupts, superpower leads to supercorruption.
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Don't forget folks,
[Read the article: A bizarre, unsolicited e-mail from Gen. Petraeus' spokesman ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Boylan did not deny it was written and sent by him. He said "no" to the question about if he could "confirm" it. He now had thought better of this matter. When Glenn asked about whether he had "anything to do" with the email, he did not reply. Nor will he. The whole tone here testifies to the fact that Glenn is being successful in getting to these guys.