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It's a shame, and I don't have any difficulty, as a war supporter, acknowledging that we probably could have done a lot better on this one. If the reports are accurate, a large number of items will remain irreparably damaged, or have been destroyed or lost forever. A small detachment of...

Because, even after 9/11, the US cannot and does not keep fighter planes ready to take off immediately and intercept any and all civilian aircraft within minutes of detecting that they're off course anywhere and everywhere in the United States. The debunking material also outlines how such...

[/b] What "evidence" are you talking about? I have no idea what you're referring to. I, I mean the US, will certainly take your opinions under advisement, rest assured. Feel better now? If not, I suggest you start a thread devoted to UNEQUAL DEVELOPMENT, LATE CAPITALISM, THE WRETCHED...

Do you use a straw when you suck up his swill? Your hero is a man whose response to the genocide in Rwanda is a glib platitude - "Minding one's own business is a virtue" - as followed up by some precious turns of phrase and an expansive digression on Henry Clay, Panama, Henry Cabot Lodge, JP...

Didn't you say that you're a philosophy professor? According to what moral philosophy can a subsequent event turn someone who has made a moral decision into a "moral monster"? Churchill was either acting in a morally questionable manner at the time he made the decision, or he wasn't. The...

I don't recall criticizing msfe for pasting op-ed pieces, though I have certainly criticized him for pasting stupid ones, and I have often criticized the pieces themselves in detail. I've also pointed out many times that he never pauses to defend the claims contained within the pieces he posts...

While we're on the subject of looting (as posted on another thread, but highly relevant here): Many of the looters appear to have been well aware of exactly who and what they were looting: John Burns in Baghdad, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/i...nt&position=top

In themselves, crimes against humanity of the sort perpetrated by Saddam's regime certainly justify change. Where such atrocities are widespread, and in fact constitute the basis of the regime's hold on power, they make that regime totally illegitimate, in my view. How one goes about effecting...

I think community service would be sufficient - possibly a few months cleaning out some of the filthier and danker cells adjoining Iraqi torture chambers. On this subject, Further evidence of Ritter's total lack of character in this recent, widely reported quote on the infamous children's...

...about some things: John Burns in Baghdad, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/international/worldspecial/11BAGH.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

Well, it's the mid-afternoon now in California, but getting late in Switzerland, or Germany... Still waiting for msfe to prove that, against all appearances and past performance, he possesses some integrity. I notice his been busy in the meantime on other threads, energetically working up...

One of the best: VON HOFFMAN AWARD NOMINEE: "The main flaws are now plain. First, the strategy left very long supply lines exposed and vulnerable. Troops require water and tanks require gasoline. Without these, no force 250 miles from base will be useful for long. Second, Iraqi soldiers...

Earlier set, may overlap with yours: VON HOFFMAN AWARD I: Conventional Wisdom Watch, by Newsweek. A down-arrow for Dick Cheney: "Tells 'Meet the Press' just before war, 'We will be greeted as liberators.' An arrogant blunder for the ages." Nope, Newsweek. Yours was the "arrogant blunder for...

Andrew Sullivan gives out "Von Hoffman" awards for terrible war predictions/assessments. I believe he named it in honor of idiotic statements by Nicholas Von Hoffman about the Afghanistan operation. Not sure... anyway: Here's one of his round-ups: VON HOFFMAN AWARDS - THE SEQUEL V-H...

Well, it took a while, but Chile's democratic now - one can argue about what direction Allende was taking it. It may surprise you, but I'm not ready to give up my longheld point-of-view that our actions in Chile were a horrible black mark on our historical record. We did a terrible job in...

What's your point, unpatriotic unbeliever? Depends on your definitions, as always. I suppose we could rest though on Germany, Japan, Italy, and France, and it would put us way ahead of anyone else (with best supporting actor awards to the UK and a few others).

Don't worry - he hasn't changed. He still doesn't have the balls to admit he was wrong - in this case making false accusations against me, based on god knows what other than his usual policy of letting his prejudices, biases, and fantasies get in the way of the facts.

I'm so deeply disappointed. I was so hopeful that msfe was finally going to back up one his claims. I guess that I'll just have to conclude that, once again, he's totally full of shit. I suppose, as I suspected, that what he meant when he claimed that the European media reported things...

Nice try at changing the subject. Still waiting for you to back up your earlier statements. Going to bed now. Maybe you'll have posted a surprise here for me tomorrow morning.

Tonight - daytime in Iraq - CNN's correspondent in the north, Brent Sadler, ran across thousands and thousands of former Iraqi soldiers simply walking down the road in an endless line, having left their disbanded units behind. They didn't look like a defeated army: No stooped postures, no...