Letters to the Editor
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What Freedoms?
Of course, the terrorists must know that our freedoms recede every day. Bin Laden: "Mission Accomplished".
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Bush's religiosity
I once had a neighbor, a true liberal and an observant Jew, who greatly distrusted Jimmy Carter. It was a general distrust of any successful person who was overly religious. He believed that these people could too easily use their religion to convince themselves that they had not acheived their success by chicanery.
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Can't understand them
What is wrong with these people? Are they mentally ill?
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pain on Friday
Sometimes an analysis gives you more clarity than you want on a pleasant Friday in June. I feel shame that we're still escalating the crusade talk. I feel anguish that it makes things more dangerous for me and my family. I feel dread at the possibility that fear-mongering might well get another Republican in office on the strength of chest-thumping rhetoric like Romney's claim to want "two Gitmos" rather than just one.
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08
I get the feeling that if we elect someone that will continue our current foreign police, the world will be forced to "re-evaluate" how they view us.
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Krauthammer's need to foster extremism and terrorism
Charles Krauthammer, the Podhoretz family and the neo-cons are doing anything and everything possible to foster extremism and encourage more terrorism among Muslim – because they need to justify their own extremism and their own terrorism.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Krauthammer wants to terrorize Muslim countries. That’s what we’d call it if those actions were done to us – “terrorism.”
That’s why they hate us – we are engaging in “terrorism” against them. Why wouldn’t they hate us?
Of course, the neo-cons will say it’s not “terrorism” when we do it because “we’re good and their evil” – it really all comes back to that doesn’t it?
It’s an all-purpose excuse and justification for the most immoral, depraved behavior.
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I sometimes find it useful
To remind myself that we humans are in fact a just bunch of apes with a modicum of extra neural circutry that allows us to communicate more effectively. The core forces that drive our behavior remain the same ones that drive chimps to gather in bands and sort themselves by rank.
I need to remind myself of that because otherwise the part of me that thinks rationally and believes that "all men (and women) are created equal" just gets overwhelmed with the galling cruelty and stupidity that permeates our existence.
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ain't no time to...
This is, clearly, the object example as to why, no matter how horrible these people's pronouncements become, we must not hate them. The surest way to become that which you revile is to declare metaphorical or literal "war" on it.
Let's oppose them, remove them from power, raze the Naval Observatory and sow the land with salt so that nothing may grow there again. But not hate.
Not for their sakes.
For ours.
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All the beltway pundits
should start wearing t-shirts that state "Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'me out!" That's basically what they're advocating under the guise of securing our freedom and way of life. I didn't realize until they opened my eyes that the American way of life and our freedom was so closely tied to genocide. God Bless America!
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Krauthammer's gas and electricity
I am sure that if someone were to propose to cut off Krauthammer's gas and electricity, he would compose a stirring 500-word manifesto about how he would fight to the death (most likely with someone else's kids) rather than submit to such extortion.
So why does he think it will work with people who are -- and have been -- willing to fight and die for themselves?
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Yes they do
hate us for our freedom:
to bomb them, invade them, put them in prison, torture them, take away their stuff and give it to our rich friends.
They must occasionally ask themselves, "Why do Americans get to do this and other countries do not tell them, No!?" Well, we do it just as much here at home (although in different ways and for different purposes) than we do it anywhere else. But regardless of how we do it, where we do it and who we do it to, we generally do it for the same reason. The same reason we impeached Clinton, for example. As Gingrich so eloquently puts it, "Because we can."
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Pot Calling the Kettle
I grew up in a very ethnically diverse neighborhood in the 60s. Senior year in high school, a classroom discussion got going, in which an African-American kid offered the opinion that the problem with Native Americans (of whom there were quite a few in our school) was that they were congenitally lazy. I raised my hand and agreed with him, and added that I thought that blacks were good dancers but inferior intellectually. He got absolutely furious with me. When I pointed out that he was being the proverbial pot calling the kettle black, he said: "No, the difference is Indians really ARE lazy. But YOU are a racist." He just couldn't see.
Krauthammer and the neo-cons are like that kid. They can't see their own humanity in The Other. Me=Good, You=Bad. Why? Because.
Collective punishment of Czechs, Poles, Jews by Germans in WWII = Bad
Collective punishment of Palestinians in Israel = Good
Why? Because.
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Deny basic human services
is despicable to the core. What a way to cause people to love you, just cut off all services that will teach em.This is the lowest uncommon denominator that can be used against a people and it shows the depth of morale decay these people are trying to formulate foreign policy from. These people that think this way are most brutal and beast like in their approach to understanding.
This reminds me of a passage in scripture,
"They have been turned over to a depraved mind".
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Svensker Nailed It
That utter - refusal? inability? - of RWAs to see anything beyond their faith-anchored beliefs is what is so frustrating to us reality-based liberals.
No logic, no reason, no argument, no fact, no evidence, no proof - nothing gets through.
It used to be, and not so long ago, people who could not respond rationally to opposing points of view were dismissed as illiterates and ignored.
Today, they rule the MSM and the punditocracy.
A 180-degree change in less than 30 years. What the hell happened?