Letters to the Editor
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Electro
No, I'm listening. You're trying to say, a duck makes a good terror system?
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David Larry D
Unfortunately virtually all of the 'facts' you folks point to are either made up or wrong and the people making them are blockheads who say "I will never listen to anyone who differs with me, instead I will just call them names, insult them and hope they go away. Aren't we brilliant"
And yes, as far as Glenn is concerned, if 90% of your columns bring these slime-people up to the surface to scream and rant, then it can't be an accident. What it is, is blog that's 95% op-Ed shaped in a way so that the reader thinks it's fact. But it's not, it's editorial and the really ironic thing, or cynical thing depending on your PoV is that Glenn constantly rails against everyone else doing exactly the same thing. Everyone else's opinions masquerading as fact are wrong.
Ain't it da Troof.
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Boy....
It's not that we drove them to collapse it was that their economy couldn't handle BOTH a civilian consumer sector AND a military sector.
It's a good thing no one else is making any mistakes like that. That would be really stupid!
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Reilly
You mean like the 18,000 unguided rockets fired into Israeli towns? Is that what you meant? Or did you mean bus bombings and carbombs?
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@Baldie
Hilariously, they believed CIA disinformation that the USSR owned a terror network.
Well ... that one was actually true. Cadres were trained at Patrice Lumumba University, funds were provided for leftist groups like Baader-Meinhof, the Red Brigades, ETA, the Tupemaros, etc; funding for 'military' operations to PFLP-GC, Abu Nidal and others. Also, technical advisors arranged by KGB to set up drug trade to maintain 'sustainable' funding.
There have been a lot of academic books about this that have floated out since Gorbachev opened the archives.
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Electro Troll
Let's say all that is true.
Where is your Glenn? Who should we read every day? Who's got a grip on the truth?
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@NorBot
Do you really think that Glenn Greenwald, the rest of the actual experts in this field and the regulars here who often take issue with the two of you are incapable of assessing legitimate threats to the national defense? Even if the Iranians had a nuke, the only place it would be going has many more nukes. As Martin van Creveld said in 2004, "Had the Iranians not tried to build nuclear weapons, they would be crazy.".
He also said some other interesting things recently:
In a September 2003 interview on Israel and the dangers it faces from Iran, the Palestinians and world opinion van Creveld stated:
We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force…. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.
In 2005, van Creveld made headlines when he said in an interview that the 2003 Invasion of Iraq was "the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 BC sent his legions into Germany and lost them", a reference to the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, (which actually took place in AD 9). His analysis included harsh criticism of the Bush Administration, comparing the war to the Vietnam war. Moreover, he said that "Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial."
In 2007, van Creveld commented that:
Iran is the real victor in Iraq, and the world must now learn to live with a nuclear Iran the way we learned to live with a nuclear Soviet Union and a nuclear China.... We Israelis have what it takes to deter an Iranian attack. We are in no danger at all of having an Iranian nuclear weapon dropped on us.... thanks to the Iranian threat, we are getting weapons from the U.S. and Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_van_Creveld
Personally, I have less fear of the Iranian mullahs than I do of the extremists in Pakistan or the nutbars in Israel.
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@quickstrategy
Sure they did. Who didn't?
But see http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHaB_mZipTk for the specific example.
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@Baldie re FCS
I think you can probably get the PowerPoint, which is as close as it's going to get to reality (many billions later)...
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Answer the question NOB
Assuming Iran develops a nuke, can we trust them to control what they have?. . .can we trust them to prevent others from using it?
It's not a pretty picture.
I don't trust Iran. -- NotOrbitBoy
So, again, why aren't you over there fighting for all you are worth? I mean, if this is the most dire threat to civilization as we know it, how can you sit on your ass? What is your excuse for not being there to fight "islamofascism?" We need to protect our "national interests" and poor Israel from certain destruction, correct? Answer the question... if it is all so dire, what is your excuse? Too old? Trick knee? Or are you just another right wing, pants-pissing coward who is completely willing to send others of to fight his battles for him?
Answer. the. god. damned. question.
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L.W.M
And his role in the government is roughly equal to yours, e.g. none. I don't hear anyone quoting Ward Churchill and calling that policy or law, do you?
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Baldie McEagle
whatever you think is silly and wrong is probably a great start.
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Tomahawak missiles have no landing gear
In 1998, six Tomahawk cruise missiles fired at Taliban bases in Afghanistan by US destroyers mis-fired and landed in Pakistan. It is speculated that Pakistan seized upon the opportunity to reverse-engineer the Tomahawk and develop its own prototype.
Those missiles did not "land" they "crashed".. Even if the warheads did not explode that means there was little left of the missile itself for Pakistan to reverse-engineer.
And besides, civilian cruise missile technology exists and could be easily adapted to military use.
http://www.aerosonde.com/
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@Baldie
I seem to be having a Javascript or Flash Player version problem (h/t error message), but I'll definitely check that vid out.
I guess you know I'm not trying to make a point that paints the US in any better light this way, or kicking the dead horse that is the USSR ...