Letters to the Editor
Fraud Guy
Published Letters: 337
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GB regurgitated
[Read the article: Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And, if you read the other comments from the post in the link that I provided, you were repeatedly corrected and your premises logically refuted. Further affiant sayeth not.
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Destroying the troops
[Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Flashheart,
Don't worry about the degradation of our armed forces--we can always hire Blackwater to provide military homeland security at its finest. Using private sector military services is always the best option. Just ask the Romans, or the Byzantines, or the rulers of Renaissance Italy, or the Spanish Empire, or the British Empire, or....
Condottieri, anyone?
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Condottieri
[Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Flashheart,
They stay bought, but they sometimes engage in ... contract renegotiations.
And some of those Italian city-states were putative republics, but there were property requirements to have your vote count. Say, how much does it take to run for the Senate, now?
And Jim Montague,
I'm not so sure you could qualify--a very high percentage of their troops are non-US. You could check at their local training centers--one in NC and one in IL, but I'm sure there'll be an office in your area soon. It'll probably will be located near the Halliburton emergency jail/detention/re-education center closest to you. Don't get the two mixed up and report to the wrong one....
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Propagandee
[Read the article: The endless, meaningless blather from the Washington establishment]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The part that I don't understand, is that Shooter242 apparently believes that the surge is working, so that the President can bravely announce troop reductions. However, it has been documented by some time, especially by the Pentagon, that the just announced timing strangely has nothing to do with the effectiveness of the surge, but with logistical factors as to combat readiness of the deployed forces. Must be some strange coincidence that we can ignore.
And as to self-interest; there is a difference between greed and self-interest. Self-interest is to take care of yourself; greed is to take as much of other's people's stuff as you can regardless of whether you need it to take care of yourself or those you're responsible for.
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I know I've seen this before....
[Read the article: American war culture in a nutshell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So...
let's make it a requirement that you have to have served in the military to run for public office. Enlistments would go up since all the ambitious types would need service to get to the top.
-- tiberius
Also positions tied into age requirements, with ascending levels of public responsibility, and increasing numbers of mercenary paid troops, and power transfer with families...ah yes, tiberius, from your own family's turns as emperor, and later times, as Rome began its change from Republic to Empire, and then began its decline that made history.
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"It was worse than a crime..."
[Read the article: The art of neoconservative innuendo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know someone who is very principled. They committed a crime in a moment of extreme personal stress, when they were arguably not in their right mind (their request for mental health treatment was turned down by their provider just before the incident). Despite this, they accepted responsibility for their action, and turned themselves in to police. The county prosecutor, apparently not content with an admission of guilt, hounded that person and their family looking for further wrongdoing, which did not exist, and luckily was not found. Eventually, the convicition came through, based upon their confession, which has branded this person for life.
Because they had principles, they accepted responsibility for their actions, as well as the consequences.
Leeden, by his statement, acknowledges that he committed a crime; by definition (as Glenn stated), the crime is treason. I would like someone to advise on the statute of limitations for treason. If there is none (IIRC), then Leeden has the responsibility to turn himself in to a prosecutor and confess to his crime. He should accept the responsibility and consequences for his actions. Failure to do so shows that he does not have principles which accept the rule of law. Instead, Leeden's principles are based on the rule of success--all is forgiven if you win. Since his group's actions failed ("blunder"), he considers that to be the violation of his principles, and apparently feels that the legal consequences are not necessary (or obligatory).
It seems this moral and ethical outlook has been, and is very common among a certain administration and its supporters.
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Not saying it's much
[Read the article: The art of neoconservative innuendo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But at least more Democratic Senators opposed this one than Lieberman's about our Iranian enemy.
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@DJ Murphy
[Read the article: Giuliani's proposal for endless Middle East wars on behalf of Israel ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But, they make their own history.*
*However, they just happen to follow in the footsteps of others.
To paraphrase Isaac Newton:
"If I have not seen as far, it is because I have hidden in the footsteps of giants."
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Iranian weapons
[Read the article: Columbia to be punished for hosting the new Hitler enemy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember, the "proven" Iranian weapons were shown by the US military during a PowerPoint presentation to a handful of reporters in Iraq, under cover of anonymity. Not the actual weapons, but images. If you believe anonymous PowerPoint presentations, I hear there's a Nigerian fellow willing to give you $25 million in yellowcake; it was left to him by his Christian missionary mother, but he can't use it, and all you have to do is wire him $2.1 million to cover some export expenses and it will be yours.