Comments Posted By jpe
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OBAMA FAILS RELIGIOUS TEST: SCHLUSSEL
It's absurd to label Moran an "Obama apologist"; he's not for Obama as much as he's against idiocy. I applaud him for it, and would hope that my team will just as readily call a fool a fool when the time comes.
Comment Posted By jpe On 20.12.2006 @ 10:05
The goals for our intervention in Iraq should be: 1.)an Iraq that is allied with the US in the broader GWOT, 2.) an Iraq that is stable and able to defend itself, and 3.) an Iraq that is a functioning representative democracy.
1, 2, and 3 have nothing at all to do with one another. That's why you egghead neocons blew it so badly: you assumed that if we gave democracy to a bunch of crazy Islamists, they'd instantly start waving American flags. That was worse than stupid: it was criminally negligent. The next wave of terrorism is on your heads.
Comment Posted By jpe On 8.12.2006 @ 00:24
Does the fact that our original benchmarks for “victory†in Iraq – democracy, freedom, tolerance, peace
And just a few days ago you were swearing up and down that western values like "tolerance" weren't part of the plan. I guess you were for it before you were against it.
Comment Posted By jpe On 8.12.2006 @ 00:22
ASKING MEN TO DIE TO "MITIGATE DEFEAT"
Ahmadinejad purged the foreign service last year, replacing experienced hands with ideological purists
That seems familiar, but I can't figure out why.
Comment Posted By jpe On 6.12.2006 @ 21:33
With that defense, you just need a competent QB, and Rex (wonder dog - heh) fits the bill. You're dead on about Griese, too.
I think the Bears will take this one in a walk.
Comment Posted By jpe On 3.12.2006 @ 11:11
AND SO IT BEGINS: HIZBULLAH TAKES TO THE STREETS
Here, Krauthammer asserts that the Iraqi war could ameliorate the root causes of terrorism:
The cauldron of political oppression, religious intolerance, and social ruin in the Arab-Islamic world — oppression transmuted and deflected by regimes with no legitimacy into virulent, murderous anti-Americanism.
In short, an Iraq free of Saddam would become politically free, religiously tolerant, socially harmonious, and pro-America. This bizarre thesis was asserted, but rarely did anyone get into the mechanism by which the ability to vote would transform a region shot through with a morbid, inherently oppressive religion.
Comment Posted By jpe On 2.12.2006 @ 22:10
Wasn't the neoconservative position basically that once Iraqis get political freedom, they'd insist on Western style freedom and become buddies with America?
As far as what's happening in Lebanon, it seems pretty clear: Hezballah and it's followers want to topple the democratically elected government.
Comment Posted By jpe On 2.12.2006 @ 21:40
jpe could be just doing a bit of tounge in cheek commentary.
Yep. I'd say that these demonstrations are a potent counterexample to the neoconservative theory that democracy will, through some unexplained mechanism, produce a citizenry eager for the kinds of freedoms we have in the West.
Comment Posted By jpe On 2.12.2006 @ 15:52
Freedom on the march!
Comment Posted By jpe On 2.12.2006 @ 00:14
IN WHICH I AM HEARTILY SICK OF GLENN GREENWALD
"Got it. That would explain why FDR isn’t on Bob’s list."
That's a pretty dumb thing to say, wrymouth.
Comment Posted By jpe On 2.12.2006 @ 00:14
