#1
both Beck and Krauthammer are making a category error.
They ask how many muslims are violent and observe that most aren't.
However, if they asked how many muslims support violence by their coreligionists, it would be larger number and if they asked how many muslims either support or want, in part to justify violence by their coreligionists, it would be a very high percentage of the muslim problem.
Failure to ask the right question means failure to understand the problem.
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03/11/2010 13:42 Comments ||
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#2
Good points, lord garth. At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law on myself: how many Germans were violent in the early days of the Nazi party?
#3
"He has recently been under attack by Glenn Beck who seems to have called him a fascist
Mr. Simons transition from fiction writer to blogger wasnt a very big leap after all. Apparently, Mr. Pajamas still retains his creative license. He attempts to persuade us into believing that Beck is attacking Wilder. You know come to think about it there was that one time Beck called him a far-right European politician. Yes, Roger what a vicious attack indeed. Even when Roger is attempting to disparage someone else sometimes he still cant quite bring himself to use a declarative statement. Its a common affliction amongst men that have no balls. Instead he feels unencumbered to use the quaint use of the literary qualifier. This time its the ole seems to have. What a load of mealy-mouthed garbage.
#4
Simon's not even much of a fiction writer. His main claim to fame as a writer owes to a film version, which he co-wrote, of someone else's novel (Enemies, A Love Story).
#1
The bombing of fleeing Iraqi bandit brigades from Kuwait on the so-called Highway of Death in the first Gulf War was halted by popular outrage because of the televised carnage.
Have to disagree here. It was an orchestrated outrage created and chorused by the MSM. It was nothing near a real 'Highway of Death' which the Falaise Gap was in '44.
#2
I may sometimes have little disagreements about VDH's conclusions, but do not doubt his grasp of history. I understood it that the HoD strikes were called off for lack of clear targets, and there were a good number of people I was around who were more high-5'n, it was the school teachers and tv heads who did the crying in my experience. And it is certainly not a real highway of death compared to other events in history, Falaise being 1 good of many examples.
There is the good point about the cycles...all out war puts a lot of chips on the table and do not necessarily redeem any amount in a win, so major wars usually start when one side feels they have a decisive advantage which follows suggested cycles. Now these cycles seem somewhat dependand upon melee, ranged, armor, and mobility developments. I would like to propose electronic as a fifth weathervane. I can imagine a situation in the future where satellites are knocked out, EW and CEW make remote vehicles too difficult to use effectively, hack attacks would be examples. Not sure where the earthquake satellite fits in...you know, if there was such a thing (cough).
#4
I understood it that the HoD strikes were called off for lack of clear targets...And it is certainly not a real highway of death compared to other events in history...
The HoD got started when an aviator saw a stream of 'appropriated vehicles" leaving Kuwait and dropped his bombs at the head of the convoy. Result - LAX at rush hour.
It became a general rout from there (I had a very, very tiny, ship-based role). The battle groups were strapping ordnance on anything that flew. Most of the vehicles, though were abandoned either through panic or from getting stuck in the sand.
And it wasn't a real Highway of Death, like the Falaise Gap, or the Bubyan Turkey Shoot (where the Iraqi navy essentially ceased to exist).
there were a good number of people I was around who were more high-5'n
Yeah, the general consensus on the ships and over the radio circuits was "take that, m-therfu--ers!".
#5
VDH is usually pretty good, but in this case he knows 2 things: jack and shit.
I was north/west of there. Shutting the door with the 2nd ACR by punching a hole in the Tawakalna division and. Every one of those MF'ers would have come bowling into our R flank had the zoomies and airdales not dusted them. We would have killed them just the same, but with more risk and probably casualties to our side.
I'm glad the bombed the hell out of them.
Anyone that doesn't like that can go fuck themselves, or pick up a rifle, put yourself in harms way then tell people "let them go" and have them come right at you.
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