Letters to the Editor
Paul Daniel Ash
Published Letters: 686 Editor's Choice: 2
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@Baldie @Jan
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think Rosen said "easy."
He did use that word, Baldie. However, the way I read it was that "the parameters of the solution are easy to find," rather than "implementing the solution will be easy." I think the context bears my reading of it and that Jan's focus on that word is a bit forest-for-the-trees. But I'd be happy to be corrected.
Now tell me, do you really believe that Palestinian right of return will be part of that deal?
Some right of some return is going to have to be a part of any lasting peace. Whether it will be "part of the deal," of course, is a separate question.
Is it not far more practical to seek a two state solution that leaves Jews in the majority in one state?
Define "practical." It is really hard for me to imagine a meaningful solution with four-some-odd million Palestinians packed in the West Bank and Gaza, and four million in the diaspora without any right of return.
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@Jan
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well it is really hard for me to imagine a meaningful solution that puts Jews as a minority in Israel.
IIRC, there are 7 million Jews in Israel and about 8 million Palestinians in the diaspora. So, unless we're talking about complete, immediate return of all Palestinians wherever they are, a Jewish minority is not really under discussion. Population growth, of course, is another matter, and a reasonable concern.
As I say, though, some right of return is going to have to be on the table. It can, however, be surprising what can be accomplished with negotiations. Not easy or guaranteed, but even the old bulldog Churchill knew that jaw-jaw was preferable to war-war...
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@Jan
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK fair enough. I confused the Jewish population of Israel with the total.
I still think there is room to move on "right of return" versus "unrestricted, complete right of return." It strikes me that this is exactly the type of thing that can be achieved through negotiation.
I just can't see a stable solution with a huge number of Palestinians crowded in poverty on the West Bank and Gaza, surrounded. I see nothing "practical" about that.
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@Arne
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well done, sir.
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We're ignoring you.
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Shame, it usually works with my cousin's three-year-old....
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@pow wow
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looks like it's on:
The Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, chaired by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), has authorized a subpoena for Addington.
http://tinyurl.com/3rxy98
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I did learn something from Electro
[Read the article: Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Hugo Boss thing. I did not know that.
http://americandefenseleague.com/hilknow1.htm
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@DCLaw1
[Read the article: Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can't you choose "newest first" or "oldest first?"
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@Electro
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are going to Hitler-bait in every comments thread, whether it's relevant or not, aren't you?
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@Bill Owen
[Read the article: McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think what our Herb meant was "classical liberal," in other words, a Hayekian, Friedmanian minarchist, in otherwords not liberal.
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What Alkaline said
[Read the article: Clinton loses Limbaugh endorsement]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]n/t
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@NotOrbitBoy
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know the entire history of who invaded who.
Ah, the old "spare me the details" argument. Listen, guy, if you don't know anything about this part of the world, and can't be bothered to do a couple web searches to at least grasp the basic outlines, on what basis do you come over here heaping scorn on others?
It's a serious question, though I'm not holding my breath for a serious response. What informs your opinions if not, you know... facts?
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Folks
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We probably want to leave Electro alone. Take a look at his other letters for a clue. This is a man to whom human intimacy is "a burden, a worry, an anxiety."
I don't know why he Hitler-baits everywhere he goes. Maybe hate is easier for him to deal with than love, or even friendship. But I personally am very uncomfortable playing any part in such a game.
Your mileage may vary.
Just wanted to get that out there.
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And how do you deal with the aftermath?
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whether or not Iran can be trusted, is, I grant you, a matter of debate. I know of no way to empirically measure their trustworthiness.
Eminently true... but this is also true about every nation on earth. I don't know that Iran is especially "off the reservation" in this regard, but I'm no Iran expert.
If you want to trust Iran with the keys to the worst weapon known to man,...I'd like to hear your candidate say that.
Let's be clear: I don't want to trust John McCain or Barry Obama with "the worst weapon known to man..." be that nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. That's not really the question, though. The question is what you do about it.
In other words, do you think the nuclear non-proliferation treaty should be stood on its head?
The NPT does not mention bombing. Again, what do you want to do about it? South Africa was persuaded to terminate their nuclear weapons program. North Korea may or may not be. Israel probably never will. Iran, India, Pakistan... who should get the air strikes?
The question, now as ever, is what we want to do about it.
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@N.O.B.
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please define "coming to fruition."
Unless you use the expression to mean "an expensive boondoggle" I suspect we are using different lexicons...
Let me know if I can help you understand the difference between a satellite in a decaying orbit and a ballistic missile.
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Or, put another way:
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"War is a racket. It always has been. [...] A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
-Smedley D. Butler
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@NOB
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]anti-missile technology is advancing
Way to move the goal posts. Yes, anti-missile technology is advancing. So is computer technology, automotive technology, and toilet-bowl cleaning technology.
That doesn't mean we can knock ballistic missiles out of the sky, or that SDI hasn't been one of the biggest pieces of corporate welfare since the Chrysler bailout.
But, I guess somebody has to keep the Kool-Aid people in business...