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Guess you thought wrong - and I don't know where you got your idea in the first place. As for the rest of your post: Among your variously condescending, presumptuous, insulting, and unsupported statements, the closest thing that I can find to a coherent argument that directly engages...

Jeremy Rifkin's analysis is marred by shallow readings of history and what looks to me like an overdose of wishful thinking, but I think there's an element of truth to his observations. In a way, they reflect an alternative, positive view of the same phenomena that James Bennett observed in...

Interesting report on how the US Marines in one Shia city have dealt with an Iran-backed wanna-be. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/inside/la-war-kut26apr26,1,3201208.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines EXCERPTS:

There is nothing remotely racist about Den Beste's analysis, in my opinion. I'm not sure whether you read the entire essay, but, even in the excerpt, Den Beste goes out of his way, as AAA notes, to ground the discussion on objective factors that, in his view, have prevented the countries of the...

Interesting question. Sounds like the background scenario for a military thriller. In another way, we're already in a slow motion version of that situation. In that the likelihood of aggressive Iranian military action against us is virtually nil, and that the Iranian opposition isn't of...

As Babak says, it's hard to look into the mind of Saddam Hussein, but one main motivation for destroying the weapons or making them very hard to find would be that, if we stumbled upon them, even without the Iraqis having used them, international political support for him and opposition to the...

Well, as you say, I disagree. You might conceivably draw some comfort from Victor Davis Hanson's latest observations, under the apt title "Time Is on Our Side." I think you'd find the entire piece worth reading (as usual, it's great "boring rightwing crap")...

guess I'll just have to leave it to original geniuses like yourself

From "Who Is Our Enemy," by Stephen Den Beste http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/09/Whoisourenemy.shtml

What's most amusing about Alfonso's posts, other than his desperate resort to bluster and vulgarity, is that, amidst his unrelenting anti-US invective, he stakes all of his hopes and rests all of his arguments on the United Nations - an institution created in the United States and under American...

I've addressed this theme several times on ET, most recently while discussing US policy in Iraq and what I believed to be the lack of alternatives to confrontation. I believe a retreat from responsibility by the US would most likely lead to advancement into the resultant power vacuum by...

No, you are not. You do not dispute my argument. You merely re-state your own argument - which does not address either my specific point or the larger discussion. To be clear - there is no general disagreement between us, apparently, as to Saddam's inhumanity. The only relevant...

[/b] "Pfft" is not a response. It is impertinence. If that's all you can manage, then I'll cease expending any effort on you and your posts. [b] I suppose I could ask you to re-read the relevant sections of my post and to respond directly to my arguments, but you do not seem to be...

Whom some in Britain refer to as "Moonbat": http://www.stephenpollard.net/viewstory.php?ID=0831 Frankly, I don't know enough about international monetary policy to address the merits of the argument. I do, however, enjoy seeing "Moonbat"'s thinking described as "heartrendingly stupid" -...

Perhaps by you. Over the months, war supporters here and elsewhere have advanced numerous highly specific justifications for US policy regarding Iraq. Opposing these arguments with a generalized "whole-hearted" "hatred" for US foreign policy historically does not strike me as an adequate...

I agree with much of your post, AAA. As you may know, a group of anti-integrationists have been loudly urging Britain to offer a European Free Trade Area pact with the EU countries plus Russia and Turkey, with possible accession by the US at a later date. Where exactly Blair comes down on EU...

Lame - you presented the poll, and you are now defending it. So, take responsibility for it. [b] [b] This poll question shows a complete lack of understanding of polling methodology - or perhaps a complete lack of interest in achieving un-influenced, theoretically "fair" results...

What a sophomoric exercise! You obviously know very little about constructing polls, especially about attempting to conceal the pollster's own biases and expectations from respondents. You and your friends probably even thought you were bending over backward to be fair and objective.

Guess I missed it - maybe it was on one of the threads I've been boycotting, but I have yet to see 1) any specifically evidenced, reasoned explanations coming from you as to why the US, rather than Saddam, bears responsibility for Saddam spending oil revenues on his palaces, his cronies, and his...

The Collapse of the Dream Palaces From the April 28, 2003 issue: Mass destruction of mistaken ideas. by David Brooks 04/28/2003, Volume 008, Issue 32 EXCERPT: http://theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/565jgibg.asp