The Thai drug police reportedly fulfilled their previous government's call for a Drug Free Thailand by committing extrajudicial homicides of over 1,000 drug users.

Then Bush congratulated them for their successes in the War on Drugs.

I didn't see anyone calling for a Cold War with them.

Extra-judicial homicide does not count for much in this world. It's certainly not an excuse for war.

Indeed, in the case of Thailand, it was met with applause.

What a bizarre interpretation. You also demonstration the bigotry of the Left as Lebanon is slowly but surely dismantled by Iran's allies. Iran's fingerprints are all over the problems in Iraq and Gaza.

I see. It's all Iran's fault. Hezbollah was formed from whole cloth by Iran; its formation didn't have anything to do at all with the occupation of Lebanon by Israel. Oh no! And Lebanon (a country cobbled together by France and Great Britain from Syrian parts) is not falling apart because it has repeatedly been attacked by Israel. That couldn't possibly be why. And the problems in Gaza have nothing to do with Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, and Israel's annexation of all the best parts thereof. These people would have meekly accepted the humiliating attacks on their sovereignty if only Iran would quit their meddlesome meddling!

Damn. What willful blindness. Who's the bigot here?

Hi. I don't think there is an "ignore this person" feature here, but I am no completely familiar with Salons features.

However, on the "send a letter" page there is a line at the bottom:

If you are experiencing a problem with our Letters feature or wish to complain about a letter, please send us e-mail at: lettersproblems@salon.com.

Just got an e-mail from PFAW:

Word from Capitol Hill is that a "compromise" is in the works to get a new FISA modernization bill in front of the House and Senate as early as this week.

The president and his congressional Republican allies are still demanding telecom immunity and the ability to spy on Americans without individualized warrants. Some Democrats at the table seem poised to capitulate.

Don't let your representative compromise away YOUR constitutional rights.

Call your member of Congress now and urge a vote of NO on any FISA modernization bill that allows the government to spy without individualized warrants and grants telecom companies retroactive immunity.

Let's get those calls going on, people. We've stopped them before -- let's stop them again.

The fleshy phallus thing wanders around sightless until the multi-egged (scratch that) eyed thing it bumps into grunts one out, so now the fleshy thing is a one-eyed phallus? And that sells Zunes?

Please, make it stop.

Here, P, a bit of a non-sequitur, but back atcha. 8')

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/the-first-genet.html

I'm sure Iran's invasion of Greece 7,000 years ago is a winner of a reason to declare them Cold War enemies.

Friedman took exactly the same stand as Rev. Wright on 9/11: essentially that our chickens came home to roost.

The difference between the two -- what dictates that one is insane and one is lauded -- is what they support going forward. If you are peace loving, you have very little free speech. If you support wanton murder, you can say ANYTHING and not get hung by your words.

Check it out against other examples. My statement is not hyperbolic. Our national discourse has built-in preferences for those who advocate evil -- preferences enforced not only by Fox or the WSJ editorial page (known trash), but by ABC, NPR, NYT etc., whose impact is more insidious given their liberal/MSM reputations.

but I just wanted to mention that if a person should hit that "read other letters" button, they will find all of a correspondent's letters in a format just like the "Letters" pages.

It might be a good thing to do if a person like you or me wanted to get a sense of whether a poster is worth your time.

And aren't we all, as the great Bob Dylan (nee' Zimmerman) noted: tired of wasting all my precious time?

Oh, don't think twice, it's all right!

It's hardly in dispute that Iran is engaged in power plays in the Middle East. It would be much more surprising if they weren't meddling. They have legitimate national interests in what goes on in the region and they have factions in their government who would love to preside over a confederation of greater Shiastan extending through Mess-O-Potamia.

What, exactly, is our national interest in this issue?

I don't believe that curbing Iran's desire for control in the region is worth the blood and treasure our punditocracy thinks it's worth. But, I feel the same way about Iraq -- only more so. America is not infinitely wealthy. Our "newsmedia" no longer even covers the issue of exactly how much money is being pissed away every day on sustaining our presence in Iraq. Our world will not be forever unipolar; there are at least 4 nations or blocs which could grow and organize sufficiently over the next decade to provide us a serious run for our money (literally).

I'd far rather see Iran piss away it's peoples' wealth on sundry clients than watch our government do likewise.

Much obliged!

The fleshy phallus thing wanders around sightless until the multi-egged (scratch that) eyed thing it bumps into grunts one out, so now the fleshy thing is a one-eyed phallus? And that sells Zunes?

Please, make it stop.

Here, P, a bit of a non-sequitur, but back atcha. 8')

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/the-first-genet.html

This is entirely Greenwald's doing, and entirely his fault. His construction is an abomination before God and Man, and now Bamage is just making it worse and worse.

The construction "phallic eyes" needs...not to be taken out, shot, buried--that would not be right, it would not be humane. But it does need to be trapped, in a have-a-heart humane trap, and transported to a lovely carribean island (uninhabited) where it can live out its life frolicking in the surf and eating coconuts. By no means should it be allowed to be seen by humans ever again, and most of all it should be kept away from small children.

If someone would take up a fund to do this, I'll gladly make a generous (for me) contribution.