tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post42367360984723509..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Who Lost Iraq?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77770187280029813682015-04-21T10:37:03.283-07:002015-04-21T10:37:03.283-07:00ISIS is just an Islamic version of what is happeni...ISIS is just an Islamic version of what is happening in the West. <br /><br />ISIS, like SJW, are amnesiac and deranged. They are not like traditional Muslims with respect for past. They are radical loonies who wallow in destruction for destruction sake. <br /><br />Western PC loonies or SJW--social justice warriors--don't go around murdering people, but their world-view is no less demented, which is why we have lunacies like the UVA rape hoax case. Pure hysteria.<br />And 'hands up don't shoot' hoax in Ferguson. <br />And the likes of Lena Dunham committing cultural terrorism against morality, decency, and taste. They destroy the souls of youth of America. And the wall between mainstream pop and porn has vanished. Look at Nicki Minaj's ANACONDA or Miley Cyrus's WRECKING BALL. <br /><br />ISIS and SJW are part of globalist youth radicalism. A world without roots, world without sense, world without proportions. A world where insipid youths can be driven to believe, scream, or do anything. <br />Once respectable Time Mag praises Kanye West as the most influential figure in the world. The #1 search item in 2014 was Kim Kardashian. <br />American culture is cultural terrorism, pure and simple. <br /><br />The West, un-moored from meaningful traditional, now has young people screaming and bitching about false 'rape culture', trigger warnings, every perceived 'micro-aggression', bogus nonsense like Ellen Pao Wow crap, and other tripe. They call for destruction for pizza stores that won't cater to nonsense like 'gay marriage'. CEO-cracy and even the Supreme Court take full part in the destruction of moral America. Our politicians are whores who do the bidding of globlalists who foment wars in Syria and Ukraine. <br /><br />The spread of 'gay marriage' is indicative of the cultural terrorism and moral terrorism against decency and values. <br /><br />ISIS claims to stand for Islam, but these nutjobs just love to destroy for the thrill of destruction. It's Islamic version of Rap thug culture. <br /><br />They pretend to oppose globalism but they represent the globalization of radical Islam that is unbound by institutions, tradition, and hierarchy. It's just crazed thugs and radicals making up their own fashionable rules of what Islam is about. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-68356176798857860532015-04-19T13:58:09.615-07:002015-04-19T13:58:09.615-07:00re: By now we know, or we think we know, that the ...re: By now we know, or we think we know, that the intelligence was faulty. But, had you been president, what would you have done.<br /><br />That's such manipulative rhetoric. It’s not a matter of bad intelligence, but bad INTENT. Bush had a timetable to start a war against a country that had NOTHING to do with 9/11, and created the facts that fit his narrative, while no serious facts had changed in 13 some years. We had economic sanctions against Iraq and a continual game of cat and mouse was at play.<br /><br />But real offense offence comes from the salesmanship. There's a serious argument to consider, like whether the death of 500,000 excess children in Iraq because of sanctions, because of a lack of chlorine which could be used to clean water OR make weapons, but Clinton's SoS Albright assured us it was worth it.<br /><br />But how long do you want to be responsible for economic sanctions that help dictators keep power?<br /><br />So an honest argument would be "We need to end sanctions, and Saddam has to go" and presented the evidence to the U.N. with no hurry, given a dozen years already invested, and we could announce to the world that're we're going to LIFT sanctions unless a united plan was found to end Saddam's rule.<br /><br />But instead we had neocon "Shock and Awe". We had "America as liberators" and we had Dick Cheney predicting the war would last weeks rather than months. We had Wolfowitz assuring us that reconstruction would be paid for by Iraqi oil. So this is all ENDLESS enabling nonsense, all outside the question of whether Saddam had chemical weapons or trying to access to nuclear materials.<br /><br />Of course I know politicians are not allowed to tell the truth, and sometimes there are necessary unpopular actions that can never be sold on "facts" because the facts are soft ones, risks and unknowns.<br /><br />I'm not big into conspiracy, but when people say FDR knew about the Pearl Harbor attack, or that Bush or the NSA knew about 9/11, I'd sympathetic to the possibility.<br /><br />If you want to act militarily in a democracy, the best way is to make people feel attacked, unsafe, and so if you know exactly what your enemies are planning, and deem it an acceptable loss, then you're willing to let your enemy finish his work, and THEN you have the proof that risks are not just risks, but facts, and perhaps that's were real danger lies, in military overstepping.<br /><br />9/11 and the various other terrorists attacks make for a perfect world for authoritarian governments, including our own, to justify anything in the name of safety.<br /><br />But outside of that, my own conclusion is we have to consider compromises, like that 100% safety is impossible, so let's act rationally in our responses, accept risks.<br /><br />The Boston Marathon tomorrow shows one of these over-reactions, now Boston has cameras in all public spaces, so police forces can track the movement of individuals, and there is no such thing as individual privacy in public, and who knows how that will be abused?<br /><br />I admit when I've seen stray backpacks sitting on the ground around racing events, I now see them differently than before. So we're all affected by fears, and most of them will be unfounded. <br /><br />And that's about the only thing I think I've learned from this. If you listen to fears, you'll see exactly what you expect and cherry-pick wider facts from distant events to prove your vigilance is justified, even when statistically it’s not, and you don't even know the terrorist have won because they just need one death to make millions afraid and stupid.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-6449276632854746312015-04-19T13:47:43.123-07:002015-04-19T13:47:43.123-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com