Letters to the Editor
Paul Daniel Ash
Published Letters: 687 Editor's Choice: 2
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@Arne
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There are those of the opinion that the acronym was apt, but it in fact worked for many years.
Word. I never thought I'd be nostalgic for the Cold War.
Except for a particularly sphincter-clenchy period in the early- to mid-80s, the world seemed so much safer then...
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@quicks: quite literally, I LOLed
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It's great to hear that the great tit is able to keep pace with the rapid rate of climate change, but then it's probably in the best place to do that," observed RSPB spokesman Grahame Madge.
Gawd bless the Mother Country.
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@quickstrategy
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, but I can't help thinking about the Festrunk brothers when I hear "Ukrainian X-55 cruise missiles..."
http://tinyurl.com/3jksu4
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@Holly
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Amnesty:
"Iranian Azeri Turks, who are mainly Shi’a Muslims, are the largest minority in Iran, [and are] believed to constitute up to 25 per cent of the population. They are located mainly in the north and north-west of Iran. As Shi’a, they are not subject to the same kinds of discrimination as minorities of other religions, and are well-integrated into the economy, but there is a growing demand for greater cultural and linguistic rights, including implementation of their constitutional right to education through the medium of Turkish."
Link at sig:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE130102006?open&of=ENG-IRN
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"No war for oil"
[Read the article: Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure that anyone -- except for some hippie kid building papier-mache Bush-head puppets on the road to Bonnaroo -- believes Iraq was "about oil" in the sense of, like, pumping the stuff out of the ground and bringing it back to the U.S.
The fact that the invasion of Iraq was about setting up a base for U.S. power in an oil-rich region seems fairly obvious, and non-controversial. As Professor Chomsky famously noted, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq if its primary exports were pickles and jelly...
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst..."
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is something here which seems profound... yet sounds trivial when put into words. Those who know this kind of thing has been going on tend to respond to news like this with a bit of a "yeah, there they go again." Those who haven't been paying attention, either through apathy or ideological blindness ("my country right or wrong") tend to dismiss news like this.
So who's left to care - and more importantly, to do something about it?
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@brightstar65
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's the problem. I agree with you, actually: the argument that we haven't (yet) been rounded up and sent to Camp Concentration is not especially an inspiring argument for the persistence of freedom in the North American Union.
But what have you done, brightstar? what gives you the moral standing to lecture the rest of us about "doing something about it." Quite frankly, tired hectoring like yours has done a lot to drive people away from protest. Nobody likes to be harangued.
I'm of the "build the new society within the shell of the old" opinion myself. I haven't done shit about it, but I'm also not bitching about how nobody else has, either...
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@kuhnigget
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Preview.
(do as I say, not as I do...)
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@Baldie
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have to conclude from this that you didn't care that much in the first place.
Word. Let's recall the immortal, inspirational words of Thomas Paine: "Fuck you all, jerks." Or, in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham jail, where he so movingly said "I do my part, I did my part. You get WHAT YOU DESERVE."
With revolutionaries like these, it's a wonder we don't all have barcodes tattooed on our asses. Goner indeed.
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@bamage
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That video has already gone viral. The outhouse line was my favorite.
(Link at sig. Because I can bring myself...)
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@adnoto
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I haven't done shit, as I said in my previous post. I'm also not stamping my feet bitching about how other people haven't done shit.
I don't like being hectored by a whiny blogger who excoriates all of humanity for not living the way he wants. I'm not doing anything, however, to interrupt your enjoyment of the same.
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@bucky and LWM
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not trying to hall monitor you guys, but I just want to remind you of what what Glenn so politely requested...
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@Aych
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would never work, turn into a shouting match within seconds.
I see it differently. My guess is that we'd all be much less likely to get into shit F2F.
I predict bucky and LWM would lead the first chorus of "Kumbaya."
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"I predict you would lose your wager."
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh believe me buck... I'm not putting any money on it!
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@Aych
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've been involved in enough F2F discussions to know that certain people always dominate and others are almost never heard from.
Certainly true. And I hope I've done nothing to give you the impression that I think "getting into shit" is a bad thing.
At least online everyone gets a chance to put forth their point of view, that doesn't happen F2F without someone riding herd on the conversation.
Depends on what you mean by "put forth." Certainly it gets registered on the site, but sometimes the rate of new messages gets so high, or the length of messages so great, or both -- I've seen damn good comments just get lost three pages back while some of us are busy comparing the length of our rhetorical dicks.
In broad terms I agree with you that online polylogues are more inclusive than IRL shoutfests, and certainly more so for participants who are less, shall we say, verbally assertive. And that's a good thing.
However, one can still get shouted down online. It happens more here than I would like.
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"I'll go to chow immediately."
[Read the article: CNN, the Pentagon's "military analyst program" and Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Buon appetito, penis breath. :-D
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I'll take "bumper stickers" for $200
[Read the article: John McCain's Vietnam-based view of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Um... what is "Iran?"
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@Baldie 7:48
[Read the article: Tom Friedman's latest declaration of war]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Best.
Post.
EVAR.
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Ugh
[Read the article: California's marriage ruling -- what it means and what it doesn't mean]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]how many of your long-ish term relationships have failed in the past? You have a real problem with not being the center of attention.
Can we please ignore this guy?
http://tinyurl.com/59ur9o
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@ToddLuvsLounging
[Read the article: Major new ad campaign -- aimed at Blue Dog Rep. Chris Carney -- begins]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Isn't it better to have representative who votes on your side %50-70 rather than a person who's against you %95 of the time?
And how's that worked out so far?
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"I understand that being a one trick pony is tiring"
[Read the article: Michael O'Hanlon's defense of his pro-war record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And we won't be offended if you take a rest.
Seriously.