Letters to the Editor
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Yes it is
That's what ideologies are, Glenn. They are assumptions whether you admit they exist or not. They are a framework for making one's own personal beliefs right and righteous, correct and noble.
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Nobody gets off the planet
Glenn, you say this now, but once my population has been placated with Colosseums and Temples, I will reach Gunpowder first and everyone will then taste my wrath.
Oh, does anyone want to trade Wine for some "Incense."
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The inevitable corollary to this thinking is…
since the enemy is so dastardly, I then have the right to do whatever it takes to protect myself, including torture.
So many politicians, who normally evade answering questions by stating that they don’t do hypotheticals, have done so by stating that, just like Jack Bauer in “24”, if there is a ‘terrorist’ who has information about an imminent attack, in order to protect the lives and property of their people, they would have no qualms about using torture, er, ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ to get that information.
Since they are dwelling in a hypothetical, let me pose one question and request an answer:
Say, (hypothetically), that we are Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Bombing Iran. One of our pilots have been shot down and captured. Do the Iranian officials then have the right and obligation, as set forth so clearly by so many of our elected officials, to then torture, er, use ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ against our airmen?
For me the answer is clear. I’m against it no matter what the instance. If someone is for it, then they are for everyone being able to torture anyone else, or, more likely, they must take the hypocritical tact of stating that our war is such a battle between Good and Evil that we can torture (since we are Good), but they cannot (since they are Evil).
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Making The World Safe For Hypocricy
Facing as we do the Transcendent Evil of All Time in the form of Islamic Terrorism, a threat that must be countered at all costs for the preservation of our lives and culture, I propose that the United States military drop all age and health restrictions on enlistment. This would give the most rabid defenders of Freedom the opportunity to participate directly in shoring up the bastions against the hordes of Terrorists besieging the nation. I'm in my late '50s and have a bad knee, but that really wouldn't stop me from toting an assault rifle down a street in Bagdad, if I was so inclined. President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the most dedicated opponents of Terrorism, will be going back to private life in less than a year. Why couldn't they be allowed to volunteer for duty on the front lines? President Bush is, we are told, in great physical shape, and Mr. Cheney, with a bad ticker, is unlikely to survive much longer anyway. Anal polyps really aren't much of a hazard, compared with IEDs, so Rush Limbaugh's request for active service ought to be honored. Yes, there are huge numbers of aging armchair warriors who would relish the chance to stand up for America and for Freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have enjoyed lives of security and prosperity for decades and now wish, I am sure, to repay the debt they have incurred and allow other, younger men, the same sort of protection. So let us move ahead in dropping restrictions to enlistment and active service, to let all these paper-pushing patriots the opportunity to wield steel and lead against the enemy, to breathe the depleted uranium dust, to nobly advance the cause of Freedom against the All Encompassing Evil of Islamic Terrorism!
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@thelastnamechosen
Gunpowder is actually one of the last techs I'd choose as the starting point for conquest... musketmen simply don't have the power rating to make up for their defensive promotion path. City raider promoted macemen are still better for making wrath felt (and the more promotions you can get each of those before upgrading to riflemen is well worth it)! To each civ player their own though!
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Manning the Blathercades
Not my cup of tea, but imagine how different it would have been, if only the Wingnut Warmonger Cheering Section had taken up paintball combat instead of encouraging the real thing, all for the sake of getting their tiny rocks off.
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One Word Summation
Narcissism. Isn't what this all amounts to? The idea that they are serious and brave and courageous, and everyone else is very sadly mistaken.
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Nice work
Glenn, I'm disappointed to see you supporting Mark Steyn in his candidacy for president.
Wait, sorry--wrong automatic reply. Seriously, though, nice work. I'm not a regular writer, so I'd just like to broadly commend the work you do here. Thanks.
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Yawn.
Rough.
The GOP ilk remind me of a bunch of flea-bitten scratchy hound dog mutts.
The GOP hound dogs listen to Elvis and sing, "We are nothing but hounds."
They are crying all the time. If they went to a dog kennel Retreat: Theme?
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HATE. FEAR. LIES. WAR. COWARDS lowly based. disease. rapid. ill. itch to fight.
But use others who die from the GOP-base-lies. Pathetic. Shame. Mock again!
The GOP colleagues who assemble together have fleas and moan at the Moon.
Or, they rather huff, pant, and bark at more respected courageous humanity.
The "tough" ones behind the podium bow-wow at assembled beast-packs.
They sniffle with a cold nose. 'Um mutts. O, and wonder who GOP-dogs 'must' daily Hate!
I don't believe these creeps have friends. O, and they do gather like fiends and are goo-base.
Baloney.
Pink-Textured, smooth, and worthless in any progressive society, IMHO.
Meow.
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A Foeman Worthy of Our Steel
When Moslem aircraft carriers, protected by fleets of Moslem airplanes firing Moslem guided missles built in their own countries with their own resources start threatening our coasts, call me.
Cause when you come right down to it, they have all the weapons in the world they can get from us.
And personally, having faced down the Russian Bear and bearded him in his lair (what does that mean, anyhow?) I'd be embarrassed to say I was worried about any entity which did not at least have a comparable military and political cohesion, not to mention the plentiful natural and technical resources.
I'm not gonna go back to being afraid of the Barbary Pirates or the Ottoman Empire.