Letters to the Editor
omooex
Published Letters: 977 Editor's Choice: 5
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I'll never understand why posters like this...
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]get cut so much slack...
Somebody said:
"Stealth Goats
My apologies to any Iranian readers. I was not thinking about Iranians in my earlier post, knowing full well that Iran is nowhere near being a nomadic society. It's a shame that more Americans don't know diddly squat about the country their leadership wants to bomb back to the stoneage.
If more Americans would Google some visuals Iranian society, perhaps they would change their view toward what us a very advanced society."
I mean really.
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Jebbie
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If I had asked you a question, your name would have been in the subject headline.
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PDA, Jebbie
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Its ok, I know a lot of stuff goes over people's heads here.
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Librechic
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the heads up, though I do agree that NPR and PBS have traditionally pretty much gone t's up whenever the Pentagon comes around. Still, it'll be interesting to see how they handle it.
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Reilly...
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That transcript is just incredible!!! My god, I've stayed out of the Brown issue because I haven't really watched him enough to form an opinion compared to the other brain-dead 24 hour cable anchors. But this is just ridiculous. The case was not only sealed, it was dismissed!!!!
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My original point
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]was that your posts are absurd. First you argued about whether or not the Air Force needs better weaponry to kill "nomadic goat herders". Then you apologized about the statement to Iranians (?????) in a typo filled reply that gave the impression that you were only semi-literate.
The comment, however, was not directed at you, but to regular posters who generally fail to take some to task for commentary that is well below the bar intellectually, as well as offensive in its ignorance.
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Sorry, meant Jebbie
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't worry Derbig, I don't really take anything you say seriously.
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Jebbie
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You've explained a lot about your disposition.
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Derbig
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why don't you call it "Five Geriatric Guys and Their Sockpuppets".
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Timberman
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're trying to prove my point for me, then you're doing exceedingly well.
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And with that...
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I call a truce. We will all fight another day. I don't mean to heap it on to the ailing. Peace and long life to all.
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RonPauliac
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"not since I've been here"
By that, I take it you mean since LWM has been here.
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bucky
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"... how many whorehouses you've visited? (asked by Timberman)
I have visited Democratic Party headquarters on numerous occasions. (but never the other party's house)"
[rimshot] nice.
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Hardball...
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hardball today. Reverend Wright, the issue.
In a conversation about Rev. Wright/Obama, Matthews wonders whether the decision to stand by Wright is in fact, Michelle Obama's (I'm guessing, because of her one supposedly anti-American public statement). A guest counters that Wright is instead Obama's surrogate father and Obama is clinging to him because he lost his father so early in life.
This is otherwise known as fiddling while Rome burns.
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And Hardball Pt. 2
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More on Wright. The discussion turns to Wright's statement which seems to imply that Obama may agree with Wright on some level, but because he is a politician, he cannot speak in the same way a pastor can.
Matthews leads the panel through a round and dismayed critique of the logic, rejecting the idea that the role of politicians is to subvert their own opinions in favor of pandering centrism. Just a few minutes later, the panel is squealing with glee and honoring Hillary Clinton's apparently succesful attempt to re-create herself as a populist. Matthews says that she has brilliantly managed to re-create herself as a working class woman with a GED from Scranton. Everyone commends Hillary on being such a great--and they actually use this word, incredibly--a POLITICIAN!!!!
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RMP
[Read the article: Interview with Aaron Brown on NYT "military analyst" story]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Matthews and crew culled the bites from the Moyers interview...but really, really redacted...
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Syria
[Read the article: Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've also found it remarkable how little scrutiny the media direct at Israel when they bomb a neighboring country or territory. This is even more aggregious in the case of Syria, where media rarely cover Syria's long rebuffed attempts to arrive at a peace accord and normalization with Israel and the US. That's not to say that Syria probably wasn't on the track to build a nuclear weapon--in this day and age, where the United States directs its diplomatic efforts only at countries that possess nuclear weapons, what government in its right mind wouldn't be?
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Electro Robot...
[Read the article: Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In 1948 when the Arab states declared a war of extermination upon Israel the ensuing war resulted in ~2% of the entire Israeli population killed and 9% wounded or harmed materially. That equates to about 6 million dead American civilians in one year or roughly the population of Chicago and LA combined plus the entire population of Florida wounded or made homeless. And if you shoot back then you're a war criminal. If that's what it takes, then that's what it takes. I am 100% behind you experiencing that."
Outside of not knowing what your point is, your stats are a little off, as well as misleading. The total number you're referencing was 1%--6,000 or so. The vast majority of those were soldiers. Only about 2,000 civilians died in Israel's war for independence. Israel had been preparing for that war for nearly twenty years. Which is why it had a military which Britain helped it construct, while the Palestinian population--which was also under the British mandate--had no army, no governmental structures, etc. About 15,000 Palestinians died in that conflict. That number is actually about 2% of their population at that time; almost all of them were civilians. There's a problem with relying on percentages of population to give an accurate representation of the casualties of war. By your own metric, Palestinian deaths were about equal to Israeli, as a proportion of their population. But the raw fact is that over twice the number of Palestinians died in that conflict.
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Prunes
[Read the article: Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"...we're a bunch of San Francisco-dwelling, Yasser Arafat-loving, Protocols-reading Gay Arab Nazis."
LOL, but to set the record straight, I actually live in Oakland.
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kufir77
[Read the article: Skepticism toward Bush claims about Syria and North Korea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some day I'd like to have a discussion with a rational Israel-supporter.