Letters to the Editor
Tideswimmer
Published Letters: 389 Editor's Choice: 47
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How'd this get so off the point?
[Read the article: Chris Matthews skewers Mitt Romney]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't want to see Romney's kids hounded into the military. If they don't want to serve, then they shouldn't have to serve. It would be nice if they would be willing to back their support for this ridiculous war with meaningful action, but hopefully that hypocrisy will make itself apparent and carry some weight. Hopefully.
BUT no one should get away with advancing the idea that driving around Iowa going "Yaaay, Dad!" is the exact same thing as driving around Iraq in an ill-armored humvee going "Please don't let this be the day that I die."
Romney advanced this idea. He is contemptible scum. He has no business running for president if he can form such idiotic associations and brain-dead ideas. America can not afford electing another media-ready null zone to the presidency. He is being hounded now, and he should continue to be hounded until he is forced out of the race.
This has nothing to do with the draft.
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Well?
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's another good one: It's a yes or no question... Do you want to win the war on terror or not?
The Dems fall for that one all the time, too.
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Say what now?
[Read the article: The Rush and Rove Show]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you meaning to tell me that Rush was a fatuous idiot? A shill and a moron? Yikes!
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It was written last December
[Read the article: Yes, but will Michael Gerson take the credit?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember when the Iraq Study Group offered up its recommendations, and Bush disappeared for a few weeks while he "listened to all sides and weighed all options" (as if he was capable of either of those things); well, that period where he went away, and the media sat around with bated breath as if waiting for Moses to come down from the mountain, Bush and gang was writing up the September surge report. It was written back then. How could any American who has paid any attention at all these past seven years not realize that? When Bush stepped up to the microphone and said "Fuck you all very much, but we're going to have a surge" the report was already written! It was only a matter of fitting a few facts to the report as needed.
As always with this group, policy first, facts later; and when the facts don't cooperate, change the facts.
Bush and Cheney will have their war. It's the ONLY plan. The only plan in the past, and the only plan for the future. They want it because they want it. And they always get what they want.
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Classic Bully Bluster
[Read the article: Giuliani's dangerous bluster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Giuliani is a garden variety, standard blowhard bully. His stated ideas of "leadership" (appeal to their enlightened self-interest, etc.) exhibit actual leadership in the same way that the average schoolyard bully is showing "leadership" when demanding a swift delivery of lunch money from weaker students.
There is nothing I, personally, hate and despise more than the shrill cowardice masked by the bellicose blowhard. I am not frightened of them, but I do find them dull and tiresome to a degree that drives me insane: please, god, just drop all the tough talk; you are so mind-numbingly fucking boring, nitwit!
I can't imagine that other nations will find it charming or appealing either. Yet it is the face that so many Americans seem to want to adopt as our official national visage. Dull, thick spouter of cliches, slow on the uptake; neither talking softly nor wielding all that impressive a "stick," if you know what I mean, in spite of how proud we are of it.
Bully boy Giuliani, shrivel up, blow away! America, please god, quit being so goddamned determinedly stupid!
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99 Soldiers Dead by Suicide
[Read the article: Another price of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Moment of Silence.
That is all.
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It's not too late
[Read the article: Bush on the lesson of Vietnam: Stay longer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With Bush's attitude, I say that it's not too late to re-invade Vietnam and finish the mission we abandoned so long ago. We must avenge all those killed by our misbegotten withdrawal by bombing the shit of the current populace until they realize the error of their ways.
I predict we'll be greeted as liberators. I doubt the whole campaign will take more than a month.
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Troll boy wins again
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So there we were talking about Bolling's comic when Mr. Nobody pops up with his drooling idiocy, and yet he still manages to take over the conversation. And so now no one seems to remember that the point of the comic is the unbearable hypocrisy of the US blowing kids to smithereens while also pretending to be a good and caring nation.
It's like when a kid can lose three of four limbs in a bomb explosion, and then we fly him to some stateside hospital where doctors "donate their services" to save his remaining limb and give him a face again, and then it's on the evening news about how compassionate Americans are.
Me, I thought the comic was hilarious because of its backhanded way of sneaking into the topic. Then his point was so true that I found it painful and confusing to be laughing at it. It's a brilliantly rendered piece of satire.
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The military is broken
[Read the article: Iraq and the reality constraint]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Joint Chiefs are not taking the pacifist view, as someone suggested, they are offering their pragmatic "bigger picture" view that the military can't keep delivering Bush's war at the current pace. The warning needle is kissing up against the "Danger" zone, and it's time to back off.
In Star Trek terms, Scotty is telling Captain Kirk that "The warp drive was never designed for these speeds! I cannaw change the laws of physics!" But the lesson of Star Trek that Bush seems to have absorbed into his dimly lit mind is that every time Scotty said that, the laws of physics were indeed continually being defied. The key ingredient was Kirk, standing resolute, insisting that the laws of physics are suspended by the bold power of cocky arrogance. If Kirk ever lost faith in his power over physics, even for a little, the Enterprise would have gone supernova in a millionth of a second.
But the Enterprise never did blow up, in spite of Scotty's predictions, so now Bush thinks he can defy the odds with the exact same methodology. Wheee! Here we go!