tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post114931055681909214..comments2024-03-26T16:03:42.608-06:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: My Lai Redux - AP First Past the Postambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149368209346589702006-06-03T14:56:00.000-06:002006-06-03T14:56:00.000-06:00Skook:Michelle is not one of my favorite people, b...Skook:<BR/><BR/>Michelle is not one of my favorite people, but she is good at some things.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149363314517096042006-06-03T13:35:00.000-06:002006-06-03T13:35:00.000-06:00That commencement speech is certainly worthy of th...That commencement speech is certainly worthy of the vomit reference. There's really no place to start criticizing it. it's just so gawdawfully perverse there's little to do but blow beets. but firstly, who in the world has ever been "supposed to have" inherited utopia? And who is this news paperman to claim the power to be at fault for Utopia's failure?<BR/><BR/>As far as Kerry, possibly his greatest damage to this nation may, in the long march of history, prove to be that his political career demonstrates to hard-eyed, intelligent enemies that the American system is unable to prevent a clear subversive, an open traitor to the national interest only short decades ago, from rising--thru exploitation of the open nature of the American character itself--to very near the national leadership. <BR/><BR/>In your heart you know, both these specimens give great hope to the evil-doers of the world.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149361035740560212006-06-03T12:57:00.000-06:002006-06-03T12:57:00.000-06:00Buddy,In written form it goes back to the first hi...Buddy,<BR/><BR/>In written form it goes back to the first historian "and thus it was..." - that's why control of the first draft is so important. I hope that Soviet history books of circa 1987 are being kept intact somewhere. In another hundred years a study of them may provide an answer as to why the Russians selected demographic suicide even after the fall. The power of ideas.<BR/><BR/>Clarice,<BR/><BR/>If you can't drive a nail then the only use for a hammer is to knock things apart. If either of those clowns were asked to build a doghouse, the first thing they would do is start searching for an architect with correct political views to design a canine living space according to socially conscious values.Rick Ballardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082425215912372067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149359935418955712006-06-03T12:38:00.000-06:002006-06-03T12:38:00.000-06:00A fool repeats his folly is right. BBC/ABC are quo...A fool repeats his folly is right. BBC/ABC are quoting Jimmy the Putz Carter saying it is wrong of us to set any preconditions for talks with Iran. Always wrong and always blinded to his own shortcomings--including, of course, hie utter idiocy about foreign affairs.<BR/><BR/>Pinch and Kerry are masters of destruction because they are both empty suited narcissists who bitterly envy anyone who actually accomplishes something .cfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415260679597997353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149359780127191662006-06-03T12:36:00.000-06:002006-06-03T12:36:00.000-06:00Heck, thinking about Hearst and "yellow journalism...Heck, thinking about Hearst and "yellow journalism", and about Lincoln's press problems, I guess it goes back to the beginning of the news biz.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149359607901246922006-06-03T12:33:00.000-06:002006-06-03T12:33:00.000-06:00It really is astounding. It's as if, until very re...It really is astounding. It's as if, until very recently, we the people have been zoo specimens, and the zookeepers have been the news-industry people. JFK is famously quoted as saying "perception is reality" but reading WWII history, the game was well afoot before Kennedy. What changed around about the mid-60s is the "other side" being around to call the distortions.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149351217465602582006-06-03T10:13:00.000-06:002006-06-03T10:13:00.000-06:00I do think the public finally caught on to the fac...I do think the public finally caught on to the fact that Abu Ghraib was much overdone by the press, and has grown increasingly sceptical of its war reports and hyping of the enemies' propaganda. After 100 US attacks were claimed to be on innocent wedding parties, the absurdity of many of the claims was patent.cfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415260679597997353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149331893381246902006-06-03T04:51:00.000-06:002006-06-03T04:51:00.000-06:00Big Lizards made the same kind of remarks concerni...Big Lizards made the same kind of remarks concerning the press reports.<BR/><BR/>I have also heard the Defense wants the drone footage because they say it will exonerate the Marines. <BR/><BR/>I do not know if that is true or not, but it does lead me to wonder just how much of a certainty it is that the Marines are guilty as the media has charged.<BR/><BR/>I also heard that the US pays condolence money to people who have lost either relatives or property as a result of American action. That might explain the fact that video cameras always seem present at these things. It also gives motive along with the obvious motive of wanting to make trouble. After all it should not be forgotten that this incident was sparked by a IED on that street in that neighborhood which blew up with the intent and purpose of killing those Marines.<BR/><BR/>I do not know what the reaction will be. I thought also about the cartoon riots, but Abu Ghraib did not create the kind of furor that pics of Mohammad did. I wonder however, if they are due for another riot.<BR/><BR/>I don't think that he Aemrican people are prepared to go after American service men they way they did in Viet Nam. I just do not get that feeling.<BR/><BR/>The truth is a lot of Americans believe the troops have shown a lot of restraint considering the sheer insanity of the enemy and the incompetence and dysfunction of mid east society. <BR/><BR/>But you know, by getting out there in front of the news cycle and trying to take advantage of this for political gain people run a big risk. If more of our soldiers are killed because of this, there will be people wishing Murtha had kept his big mouth shut. There is more at stake here than his showing his ass on C-span.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149318514509397772006-06-03T01:08:00.000-06:002006-06-03T01:08:00.000-06:00Rick, I do so hope you are right..Rick, I do so hope you are right..cfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415260679597997353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1149312434029845262006-06-02T23:27:00.000-06:002006-06-02T23:27:00.000-06:00I have the same feeling. I don't know why I have t...I have the same feeling. I don't know why I have that feeling, but I do. This is the bridge too far, and the MSM is going to fall flat trying to gin up a firestorm. Hunch.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.com