Comments on: No Surrender

By: The Mahablog » The Power of (Right Wing) Myth

The Mahablog » The Power of (Right Wing) Myth — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:08:41 +0000

[...] Got that? All “enemies” are Hitler (whatever you think of Gorbachev, he’s hardly Hitler). So much as meeting with “enemies” is Chamberlain and Hitler at Munich. So how do we deal with nations whose interests don’t harmonize with ours? Rightie mythos leaves us with no option but war. [...]

By: The Mahablog » Endangered Species

The Mahablog » Endangered Species — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:08:21 +0000

[...] Last year I wrote, Righties are so terrified of the ghost of Neville Chamberlain they seem to think that even trying to understand what the enemy wants amounts to “appeasement.” Thus the vacuous nonsense about “they hate us for our freedoms.” But understanding what the enemy wants isn’t just about negotiation or appeasement, but understanding who the enemy is. This is vital when the enemy is a stateless faction, because what they want is what defines them. It’s what sets them apart from other people who might live in same region and share the same ethnic and religious heritage, but who are not necessarily our enemies. If we don’t understand clearly who, precisely, we are fighting, how can we develop effective tactics and strategies? How can we efficiently direct our resources to strike the people we most need to strike? [...]

By: The Mahablog » Getting Colder

The Mahablog » Getting Colder — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:52:36 +0000

[...] However, as this blogger points out, righties since then have become considerably more sanguine about the slaughter of civilians, including children, in the name of fighting terrorism. Yep, after the attacks on 9/11 the righties shed their tender sensibilities rather abruptly, and they flipflopped from complaining that Clinton had done too much to claiming he hadn’t done enough. [...]

By: The Mahablog » Why Righties Piss Me Off

The Mahablog » Why Righties Piss Me Off — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 16:37:11 +0000

[...] And you want to talk about pre-9/11 thinking? This week the damnfool Bush Administration was selling the fantasy we are re-fighting World War II. And no end of righties continue to complain that we’re not pursuing a “total war” strategy without confronting the fact that World War II-style total war theory can’t be applied to the kind of enemy we’re facing now. [...]

By: The Mahablog » If It Was Good Enough for Hiroshima …

The Mahablog » If It Was Good Enough for Hiroshima … — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:06:44 +0000

[...] It’s also another example of a rightie stuck in pre-Cold War thinking. [...]

By: ironranger

ironranger — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:09:21 +0000

“You know someone’s gone off the stupid scale when even Tweety notices.” So funny & true. Now if we can just get the 29 percenters to notice….

By: The Mahablog » Non Sequiturs

The Mahablog » Non Sequiturs — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:48:31 +0000

[...] I mentioned this in a post last week — check out this bit from Friday’s Hardball: REP. CHARLIE RANGEL (D) NEW YORK: I like to quote Rumsfeld, who said that he didn‘t know whether we were creating more terrorists than we‘re killing. And I think that the terrible way in which we have gotten involved in Iraq, have no clue about how to get out, inability to have any diplomatic policy, that we got young people who are Islam but of course have now found that people are being killed, and they are being recruited to do this terrorist work. [...]

By: maha

maha — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:31:40 +0000

Preston — I don’t turn on the TV during the day, as a rule. Thanks for the head’s up.

By: Preston

Preston — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:54:30 +0000

No comments per se on this topic, but just wanted to break in to say that I am gagging through another of GWB’s unbearable speaches re the Middle East and that GW Bush has got to be the dumbest, stupidest, most ignorant son-of-a-bitch ever to reach the White House. He has no idea, not even a clue, to what’s going on in the world around him and what he’s doing to it. It is positively sickening.

By: maha

maha — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:29:37 +0000

Ah, finally I get an answer from you.

Asshole. All of that information was either in my post or in the links to the post that you were too lazy to read. I had to hold your hand and show it to you. I hate people who have to have things explained to them five times. Get lost.