tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7552434539588804226..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Speak Loudly and Don't Carry a StickStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61889787843714687842014-03-28T13:53:07.162-07:002014-03-28T13:53:07.162-07:00Here's a less anonymous critic of neocon Victo...Here's a less anonymous critic of neocon Victor Davis Hanson's cookie-cutter political style.<br /><br />Expert opinions are helpful, especially if you have an objective reputation on the line, but ideological narratives have as much chance to deepen the echo chamber as enlighten a way out to complex reality.<br /><br />http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/its-all-greek-to-victor-davis-hanson/<br />"Victor Davis Hanson has been writing the same thing for years now: cheerleading for the Iraq War spiced up with classical military history. Doesn’t matter whether he’s writing a 400-page book or a 1000-word column for National Review Online, Hanson uses the same formula. And it’s sure worked out well for him. Hanson’s got his fans convinced that Socrates himself would volunteer for duty in Fallujah, if only he didn’t have to drink that damn goblet of hemlock."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88084223493837850162014-03-28T11:34:42.151-07:002014-03-28T11:34:42.151-07:00Sam at 754 and Anon at 1004,
I said trash talk, a...Sam at 754 and Anon at 1004,<br /><br />I said trash talk, and rational wiki is more entertainment, but facts remain - experts exist within certain fields, and if an expert wants to offer opinions outside his field (history professors opinions of modern politics warfare for instance), its still called opinion, and its uncritical value exists only to those who have the same cherry tree in their back yard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-58476589533225414432014-03-27T22:04:43.531-07:002014-03-27T22:04:43.531-07:00Anon @2:22 + 5:03p: Ye without preconceived conclu...Anon @2:22 + 5:03p: Ye without preconceived conclusions, I'm sure... And you probably think 26-year-olds are "children" who've just graduated from Hogwarts. Is that what rationalwiki tells you, too? I'm with Sam, that website ain't my speed. After all, I'm a "global warming denier." And it's funny that y'all came up with global warming theories.... I thought you didn't like Creationism. "Myths" about Adam and Eve are a far cry from hockey stuck theories of global doom and "Noah" Armageddon adaptations. First time I've been on rationalwiki... thanks for the moonbat recommendation. They probably wouldn't think too highly of me, would they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47179261732572629732014-03-27T19:54:22.046-07:002014-03-27T19:54:22.046-07:00Anon? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I guess we a...Anon? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I guess we all drink different Kool-Aid. rationalwiki isn't my flavor.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88635429239374410932014-03-27T17:03:14.138-07:002014-03-27T17:03:14.138-07:00Sam at 316, yes VDH is a historian and as rational...Sam at 316, yes VDH is a historian and as rationalwiki trash talks him, experts often get uppity to think their opinions are tall because they have perfectly cherry-picked historical facts to match their preconceived conclusions with the utmost care.<br /><br />"Victor Davis Hanson is an expert on ancient warfare and a professor of classical studies. When writing on those fields, he is typically very knowledgeable and strong. Of course, he has decided that knowing everything about Rome and Greece means he knows everything about everything. ... This, in essence, is how Hanson approaches all of politics. He looks back to history (usually Greece or Rome) for something he feels is vaguely analogous, and tries to make them fit."<br />http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Victor_Davis_Hanson<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-23931723883435664992014-03-27T15:16:26.405-07:002014-03-27T15:16:26.405-07:00anon at 222, VDH is a historian; see books at
htt...anon at 222, VDH is a historian; see books at <br />http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=victor%20david%20hanson&sprefix=victor+da%2Cstripbooks%2C202<br /><br />I'd guess he has a better grasp of world history and how things today compare than you do.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-54747357381511145482014-03-27T15:10:12.920-07:002014-03-27T15:10:12.920-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30006311269024302802014-03-27T14:22:07.851-07:002014-03-27T14:22:07.851-07:00I'm not sure neocons like Victor Davis Hanson ...I'm not sure neocons like Victor Davis Hanson are worth listening to, unless you have a really short memory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60569056149013211202014-03-27T13:23:25.222-07:002014-03-27T13:23:25.222-07:00
Given western fecklessness, it is unsurprising t...<br /><br />Given western fecklessness, it is unsurprising that Russia is on the move everywhere. The arctic is just one such theatre:<br /><br />http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/is-vladimir-putin-coming-for-the-north-pole-next-20140327<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-464921/Putins-Arctic-invasion-Russia-lays-claim-North-Pole--gas-oil-diamonds.html<br /><br />Lastangonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-83822190410433224462014-03-27T12:03:11.981-07:002014-03-27T12:03:11.981-07:00Problem is, all will be punished for the sins of t...Problem is, all will be punished for the sins of those who voted for him.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29178255652085018352014-03-27T11:37:15.686-07:002014-03-27T11:37:15.686-07:00The only people who fear Obama are American citize...The only people who fear Obama are American citizens and the occasional ally he has insulted. It is like watching a disaster in the making.<br />It would seem that Obama is making a good attempt at becoming the American Neville Chamberlin. Unfortunately we may not survive the results.<br />It is not like we could have not helped the Ukraine by creating a currency board built on tying the hryvnia to the euro among other measures like not raising taxes. <br />It was Obama that helped to weakened the Ukraine. It appears that Obama destroys almost everything he touches.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70209604219767921362014-03-27T09:57:32.528-07:002014-03-27T09:57:32.528-07:00Stuart, I am not confident at all about us recover...Stuart, I am not confident at all about us recovering from this disaster. The American people were different in the 1980s - demographically and culturally - and still possessed intuitive understandings of international relations that emerged in WWII/Cold War. The new American electorate is dumber and lazier and more invested in progressive BS.<br /><br />I watched some interviews the other day with some college students and they could not name ONE US senator - not one. But they could name the latest dreck pop hit. A certain degree of ignorance has always been the hallmark of youth - but I think that we are plumbing new depths. They can be easily distracted with fatuous accusations against conservatives - "they want to ban contraceptives!", "war on women", "warmongers", "tax breaks for the rich", etc etc ad nauseum. With social media technology they can be corralled to vote en masse.<br /><br />The upshot is that we are stuck with this vast progressive constituency (Obama's bottom seems to be about 40%) and they are lathered in this essentially anti-US worldview. This produces the Obamas, Kerrys, Boxers, Clintons of this world. Not to mention the left-wing control of the media, universities, entertainment, and Federal bureaucracy (on the last one see what has happened to N. Virginia).<br /><br />Obama is getting beaten up on the international scene and he does not care and, more importantly, his constituency does not care. It is sad and dismaying. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com