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Still more salami from that same slicer. In this case, the writers set up a typical straw man argument before rehearsing their familiar song: Does anyone believe that Iraq would excite this much attention if it did not a) possess substantial oil reserves, and, at least as important, b) wasn't...

Of course, the interview with the "British" energy expert Mamdouh Salameh does not justify that conclusion: It rather takes as its premise the idea that the sole purpose of a prospective "British-American invasion" is the direct appropriation of Iraqi oil assets. I'd respond in more detail...

YAHOO MESSENGER LOG - 030900 EXCERPT (cont.) aqua007007: well i have this problem sirfye: and which problem is that? sirfye: inability to sell? aqua007007: yeah and that navi is so awful for me ...the WORST aqua007007: enga could have done that with luck sirfye: hey, I sold NSOL at...

YAHOO MESSENGER LOG – 030900 (excerpt) aqua007007: well all i know about puma is it went from 119 to 198 since i bot it a couple of weeks ago sirfye: that's all you'll ever know on Earth, and all you need to know aqua007007: and thats all i need to know now i cant sell it because its...

Anyone who makes this argument demonstrates an incapacity for geopolitics. If North Korea were at the center of the US's interests rather than at the periphery, and if it wasn't in the neighborhood of two other major nuclear powers and one potential major nuclear power, then its regime very...

Thinking About Iraq (I) By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN As the decision on Iraq approaches, I, like so many Americans, have had to ask myself: What do you really think? Today I explain why I think liberals under-appreciate the value of removing Saddam Hussein. And on Sunday I will explain why...

I believe you are mistaken - though "resemblance" is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose, and I'm not really sure what you're presuming "Bush wanted." As I recall it went like this: The main point of contention (pushed chiefly by, suprise!, the French) was over what kind of language the...

The Euros, especially the Germans, are in somewhat the same position as the Democrats: In broad terms, if Bush policy works, or is seen to have worked, then they're largely irrelevant, whether they supported it or not. If Bush fails, or is seen to have failed, then it's in their interest to...

I know what you mean. One of the frustrations of attempting to debate these issues, and not just in these virtual environs, is the apparent unwillingness or inability of many on either side to think past their pre-cooked or directly cut-and-pasted pronouncements. They ignore arguments or ideas...

I agree with some of your thinking, but one problem is that some nuclear and potentially nuclear states are far from unitary or stable (something that can also be said for some of their leaders, it seems). The danger of a nuke or other WMD ending up in the hands either of a terrorist group or...

What frenzy? Other than a few guys who maybe don't have a football team in the Super Bowl to cheer for, where is there a frenzy? The line about "a country they can't even find on a map" sounds like a familiar "asinine slogan." Then, you assert that unspecified "claims" are...

Don't really buy the metaphor, but I'll go with it: Seems to me there are many silos and countless cigarettes - not to mention cigars, joints, hookahs, and every other kind of recreational inflammable - already lit up, in greater or lesser proximity to a wide variety of volatile explosives...

Thanks for the thoughtful post - which reflects at least the beginning of the kind of strategic discussion that name-calling and readymade ideological diatribes tend to make difficult or impossible. I do disagree, however, with your seeming approval of Representative Paul's "questions." I...

Well, sounds like you've now got a project for MLK Day.

A pundit wanna-be from "Palestine Media Watch," working on not one but "two books on the people of Palestine" vomits up an anti-American diatribe - reciting a familiar set of leftist canards, clumsily deploying familiar propaganda tricks - and wild sees fit to paste it here? Is the paragraph...

You're so predictable, wild. To cut and paste from myself, on another thread, responding to parallel but less detailed comments less than an hour ago: "Referring to Bush as a dictator would be offensive if it weren't so absurd. Having a reasonable discussion about these matters becomes...

If Hussein goes into exile or is ousted in a coup, many questions may remain unresolved. Depending on precisely how such events unfolded, US and allied military action would probably at least be postponed, but could under a number of scenarios be re-accelerated, depending on the extent to...

I think it's Josh B Easily Impressed. I found it somewhat discomfiting when on another thread Josh B complimented one of my posts - but grouped it together with some others that the same post called nonsensical. This grand revelation - of the many companies involved in one way or...

Referring to Bush as a dictator would be offensive if it weren't so absurd. Having a reasonable discussion about these matters becomes difficult when a popular if flawed US president at the ahead of a democratically if imperfectly constituted government is equated with an almost inexpressibly...

Never did thank you, max, for your work on the "Hunt the Boeing" thread, helping to debunk that conspiracy claptrap. So... thanks. As for the issue of wild's origins, based on interactions in the chat room, I consider it highly unlikely that he's an Islamic Fundamentalist The gourmet...