[Stevedew]: When was the last time you served in the military or participated in a war?

I'm afraid if you can't answer this question, then you have disqualified yourself from anything, ever.

It doesn't make any sense to point out that a fair number of UT regulars are veterans, for whatever it's worth....

Cheers,

So, that's when Hitler should have been stopped?

History always bites Left-Nutters on thei concavities.

I've read through in a long time.

Thanks for continuing to highlight this issue, Glenn, which I take to be humanitarian one, and having nothing to do with religions or ethnicity one either side. Damn those who shoot unguided missles into civilian areas, and damn those who respond with bombing runs into civilian areas as well.

And I suppose I am still allowed to comment, since I did serve in the military :)

Stop being childish...

If you desperately need the last word

What projection!

At this point, it looks like you guys have been picking on someone's little brother, and now they're so impotently enraged that all that's left is screaming and spitting, and a sad determination to have the last word.

Go on, Wallaby, tell us again how this site has crossed the line into hate speech and that you're gonna open up a can of legal whup ass on us all. I love that one.

History always bites Left-Nutters on thei concavities.

-- NeoConCabal

Not that it matters what a dog barking non-stop is trying to say --since that barking dog is not trying to say anything beyond "woof, woof, woof, woof", but what is it that you were trying to say with your barking dog comment?

It's not just a matter of if you have participated in war. You need at least ten confirmed kills. Also, remember that ten kills always yields to twenty.

Pointing a gun gives your arguments strength. Pulling the trigger gives them credibility.

I think you had it right, all Neo was saying was "woof woof woof." But I used to work in a pet store, and I think this particular breed is trying to catch liberals in some kind of gotcha for the fact that Hitler wasn't stopped in 1933, or some such shit. I'm sure it's not meant to make any specific sense, just that general allusion.

Unfortunately for NeoConCabal, stopping Hitler in 1933 would have been difficult seeing as so many leading republicans (including GWB's grandpa) were too busy doing business with the nazis to countenance some kind of opposition.

Wait a minute.

Are you suggesting I'm not disqualified from [every]thing, [for]ever?

What a relief.

There it is! Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster someone showed up with a road map.

We're on our way to wordy. Woo-hoo!

BTW, anyone know where that is?

PS. Are others noting similarities between Lotus Feet, Wallaby, and Zoltan-the-magnificent (or, whatever the heck he called himself)? How many socks is a puppet allowed to have, anyway.

Near as I can tell there is the 'human race' i.e. homo sapiens. Race is not a matter of biology as it applies to human beings dontchya know, but rather a cultural construct. Are all fertile healthy human beings of a certain age in opposite sex pairings capable of procreating (which is not exclude all those who choose not to conceive or adopt/conceive in alternative pairings through alternative means)? Of course they are. That means they're the same species of beings i.e. same race. Sooner we except that biological fact sooner we'll let go of some of our hate of others with differing amounts of pigment in their skin.

And given that you're legally misunderstanding and misapplying the terms 'race-bating'and/or 'incite violence' et al, my guess is that the AG's office of whatever state you run to with your panties/boxers in a bunch, will thank you for the info, hang up, and shrug their collective shoulders saying "what an asshat".

You do know what the First Amendment to the Constitution is all about? It's about government suppression of private speech not private suppression of private speech. The Constitution contemplates taking the good speech with the offensive except in very narrow circumstances that involve legal concepts like "imminence" and "readily apparent means i.e. capacity to perpetrate violence" and "causation in fact" . . . .

I'd like to submit a new phrase to describe all backers/propogandists/apologists of "unjust" wars and "preemptively pointless security ensuring reckless slaughter of civilians" of any ethnicity or belief system:

"The Cognitively Diminuative Morally Repellent Apologetic Shrieking Harpy Tribalists of Death and Destruction"

There are oppressors and the oppressed. The real trick is to figure out who is doing what to whom so that the labels are appropriately assigned. Vonnegut said something to the effect of "be careful what you choose to do because you ultimately become what you do". Of course Ghandi put it most eloquently "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". MLK Jr. followed with "if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live" and I think he meant it in the sense of "will lay down ones life peacefully rather than violently," but I could be mistaken.

Why is it that Republicans are incapable of discussing any foreign policy issue without bringing up Hitler and Neville Chamberlain and appeasement?

That so many of those so enthusasitic about war have never been in one, or trained to be in one.

See Cheney, Richard. Or just about ANY neocon.

This was nicely done. I was amused by how Hugh Hewitt called you lefty instead of liberal or progressive.

tool in box is the hammer so every problem looks like a nail to be hammered.

I say take warfare back an honorable notch and stop allowing one force to have an overwhelming technological advantage. Swords, clubs, knives, arrows, martial skills . . . Exactly how honorable and inspiring is it to drop bombs from thousands of feet onto people with no air force to challenge you with?

I guess we convince ourselves that we don't have to sacrifice our citizens lives for our "beliefs" and "designs on empire". We just build death dealing contraptions that can be put into motion from miles and miles away at very little risk to our soldiers. Seems most of our "enemies" have been fighting us in sandles with second rate equipment for the last 60 years and we still seem to get our asses kicked in the long run, achieve nothing, shatter 100,000 of lives on all sides, and go broke doing it. War is almost always a form of collective insanity.