Letters to the Editor
mr snoid
Published Letters: 146
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@FredrickBernanke
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hear you, bro:
there will be consequences intolerable to the rulers if oil is used as a weapon against the West.
You mean like 1973?
I stood on top of the Golan and looked down into Syria (they let you do that in 1995), and, you're right, I'd rather live in Israel. But I believe Israel should give the Golan back to Syria. You see, Fredster, rather than your fantasy of the bad rulers, but the potentially West-loving people of the ME, and how we can get at the former and not screw the later (which was the failed Iraq fantasy), I propose a different course. Let's have a US government that leans hard on Israel to go back to its 1967 borders and use part of the war money that we're throwing away to buy back the right of return. The US becomes the hero of the ME, the Arabs sign peace treaties with Israel and the autocratic regimes of the ME are weakened with an actual democratic upsurge. No more oil as a weapon. Israel still has its hundreds of atomic weapons and its defense treaty with the US for security. The settler problem is over (if we can buy off the Sunnis, we can buy off the settlers). Doesn't that sound better?
On a personal note - my father's family came over to escape the pogroms of 1905-6. But just because I'm a dfh doesn't ipso facto make me a commie.
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@Sol
[Read the article: What Howard Kurtz means by "media scrutiny"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chakras? Keyn aynhoreh! For the uninitiated, that means "Get Ayn Rand outta here!"
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Earregardless
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Despite all you've heard...
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Israel & Drugs:
[Read the article: The difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the twin third rails of US politics. Now if I could only figure out the connection..
M&M Story
I was born and raised in Gary IN. A great deal of the land was owned by US Steel, but they didn't develop it all. Opposite my house was a large parcel of undeveloped land leading through the Indiana dunes to Lake Michigan which we all called The Woods. All my fantasies as a child centered on The Woods. When I was 9 or 10 I asked myself what I wanted most in the world - what would be the best thing that could possibly happen to me. I decided that it would be if I were walking along in The Woods and I discovered a large cache of M&Ms. I proceeded to turn this fantasy into reality. I stole a quarter from my mother's purse, went to the corner store, bought 5 packs and planted them. The dream had to be shared. I got a friend and went walking in The Woods. We made a miraculous discovery. But when my friend took his portion home, he told his mother about the miracle and she wouldn't let him eat them. She threw them away. But mine tasted extra good. My dream had come true.
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Back to Shooter
[Read the article: War advocates like Anne-Marie Slaughter demand that you forget the past]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For instance, nearly everyone here thought invading Iran was a done deal.
Not everyone here, Shooter. But I'll tell you someone who did:
Hillary Clinton. That's why she was so happy to vote for Kyl/Lieberman. She didn't want to be left out when all the fun started.
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Naselfibber!
[Read the article: Journalists, McCain and the false Iran/al-Qaida link]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Great to see you back on the thread. And profound point about Lieberman, old chap. Except that he was trying (and failing) to keep McCain from looking ridiculous, and not trying to keep him from advocating an attack on Iran. It's not AQ, but rather "Islamic Extremists" that Iran is training and sending back into Iraq. So we can attack them anyway, right Fibber?
I myself socialize with no one but Jews. Zionism is rampant in my household. For fun, I hide Mrs. Snoid's membership cards in The David Horowitz Freedom Center. And I have lots of fun! Anyway, at one such social occasion (a couple had forgotten to get a Jewish wedding in a Temple when they got married 30 years ago, so they were doing so now) a few months ago it was at the height of the Iran, Seymour Hersh, Israel Lobby mania and I took it upon myself to corner the left-leaning head of the Judaic Studies Dept. of a large local university and push him into betting me - my $20 against his $10 - that America would attack Iran before the end of Bush's term (I took yes). The point of the bet was my belief that the Neocons had gotten us into Iraq as a first step in the Transformation Of The Middle East into a More Israel-Friendly Neighborhood. Since they had now destroyed Iraq (good), but empowered Iran (very very bad), these real men (or at least those who did their dirty work) were going to Tehran real soon. Otherwise their whole gambit would have backfired.
Well, the bet's still on. The NIE made the bet look bad (or good, depending on how you look at it), but things are heating up again so who knows. If I lose, that means to me that the power of The Lobby is, indeed, limited. If I win, well, like they say - second only to the gun nuts.
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@ Bill Owen
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you want to go into Iran? How will that help exactly? You're nuts!
Naselfibber doesn't want to help us, but he has a sneaky feeling feeling that it might help his pals over at SettlerState.org. Heading over to the *nest of vipers* in Tehran with the pro-Iranian Iraqi military is a good one, though. Would that all our trolls could accompany them to see just how that works out.
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@ Svensker
[Read the article: Michael Mukasey's tearful lies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When Mukasey was nominated my wife's brother emailed us bragging, *We now have an Orthodox Jew as attorney general.* Israel is in play. What's more, PNAC's foreign policy design for an aggressive single superpower dovetails with a Cheneyistic restoration of Nixon's strong executive, so constitutional rights, separation of powers, etc., must be weakened. Mukasey was thoroughly vetted on all this and is doing his job splendidly.