tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post110305011039081283..comments2023-07-27T06:00:23.360-04:00Comments on Not the Country Club: Neo-MongolsAl S. E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103665855653654602004-12-21T16:50:00.000-05:002004-12-21T16:50:00.000-05:00Thanks for your contribution, but I have already a...Thanks for your contribution, but I have already answered this type of objection. Even if we believe the US Government's propaganda (think for a moment of their record of lies) that such places have been used to store weapons, etc., two wrongs don't make a right. The fact that a desperate Iraqi Resistance may have used its own mosques for purposes other than praying in, does not give license toAl S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103665124246874762004-12-21T16:38:00.000-05:002004-12-21T16:38:00.000-05:00If you feel that we are desecrating Holy places by...If you feel that we are desecrating Holy places by regrouping in them, What do you say to the fact that These "Holy Places" have been used to house weapons and to provide shelter for such acts as the torture and beheading of Relief volenteers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103657446960052362004-12-21T14:30:00.000-05:002004-12-21T14:30:00.000-05:00Thanks for your comment, Dave, but I feel I have a...Thanks for your comment, Dave, but I feel I have already answered this type of objection. What astonishes me most is the lack of expressions of moral outrage on the part of most American people about what is going on in Iraq. Instead, they spend their time arguing that it is okay to kill off a quarter of a city's population rather than the entire population. Or they argue that even though IraqAl S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103655819009314042004-12-21T14:03:00.000-05:002004-12-21T14:03:00.000-05:00I find the attempted parallelism between "putting ...I find the attempted parallelism between "putting an entire city to the sword" and routing our Fallujah to be contrived at best. Warning was given days in advance that the USA's forces would be coming, for example. <br /><br />With regards to the treatment of the mosques, if you are being fired upon by a person who has stationend themselves within a building, what should you do? The obvious Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103431072510657312004-12-18T23:37:00.000-05:002004-12-18T23:37:00.000-05:00To sort of continue with my latest comment, I real...To sort of continue with my latest comment, I really cannot comprehend how an American--no, how a human being--can find the Fallujah holocaust comical. Apparently, some people think the picture of a city defending itself against foreign invaders is the height of comedy. The paradox is that this attitude is seen in a nation whose forefathers, in their Revolutionary War, taught the world how to Al S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103428413441508352004-12-18T22:53:00.000-05:002004-12-18T22:53:00.000-05:00That doesn't look like a mosque to me. It looks l...That doesn't look like a mosque to me. It looks like one of those weapons positions/ammunition storage sites US troops kept running into in Fallujah. Muslims would never desecrate a mosque by using it as a military base, as so many buildings like this were in Fallujah, so I think its pretty clear that their were very few mosques, if any, in Fallujah. Or were there very few muslims? I don't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103425949532922312004-12-18T22:12:00.000-05:002004-12-18T22:12:00.000-05:00Some tissue, some wind... Thanks, BH, for your co...Some tissue, some wind... Thanks, BH, for your comment. It has prompted me to try to clarify a few points. I feel a lot of readers have misunderstood what I have been trying to say through this particular post, as well as in many of the other ones. But first, to answer your specific points. I don't feel there is any parallel between the terror being inflicted by the US on the Iraqi people Al S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103413319212908282004-12-18T18:41:00.000-05:002004-12-18T18:41:00.000-05:00We are nowhere near the Mongols in terms of induci...We are nowhere near the Mongols in terms of inducing terror in the subject population. I don't think you can seriously advance the noton that we are. Saddam, Hitler and Stalin came close. But we are simply seen as a weak colonial power. Tissue in the wind.brainhellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02503709622888691582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103219197296651932004-12-16T12:46:00.000-05:002004-12-16T12:46:00.000-05:00I don’t frequent religious establishments of any k...I don’t frequent religious establishments of any kind, but even I know that one is supposed to behave with a certain decorum at such a place. Americans in particular should know this, since they are the most church-going people on the planet. And, of course, they obviously were aware of exactly what they were doing.Al S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103218218388546232004-12-16T12:30:00.000-05:002004-12-16T12:30:00.000-05:00If you consider "desecrating a mosque" means to si...If you consider "desecrating a mosque" means to sit/lay around, chat with each other, and rest a little...then I guess you are correct.<br /><br />How could I have known otherwise, doh!Anti-Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07407303475238817775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103217268190593872004-12-16T12:14:00.000-05:002004-12-16T12:14:00.000-05:00Thanks for your comment, Cinders. Contrary to wha...Thanks for your comment, Cinders. Contrary to what the propaganda system has put out for sixty years, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not really a part of WWII. Rather, it was the last stage of the development of a new weapon system. The Bomb had been developed, and the momentum of its process of development led to its use on those cities. The bombings that were a part of WWII took Al S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103155321075679402004-12-15T19:02:00.000-05:002004-12-15T19:02:00.000-05:00Steve and Madera, thank you both for your comments...Steve and Madera, thank you both for your comments.<br />Steve, although what you say is in jest, it is actually quite true. The American strategy in Iraq is the "winning hearts and minds" strategy as originally practised by the US in Southeast Asia. That strategy, both then and now, consists of destroying everything that a subject population has, so that the subject population becomes Al S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16053409030033484578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103152462125656942004-12-15T18:14:00.000-05:002004-12-15T18:14:00.000-05:00Good points on the Mongols. There is no analogy b...Good points on the Mongols. There is no analogy between the empire of the Mongols and anything going down today unless you wish to change the definition of empire. There is, though a “long memory” often employed as a rationale for aggressive action against centuries old offenses. The score is never settled as near or far as you go on the time line. The only solution would seem to be a “maderahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00992912914994019938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9257988.post-1103132596902699312004-12-15T12:43:00.000-05:002004-12-15T12:43:00.000-05:00Wait a second...Aren't we all about "winning heart...Wait a second...Aren't we all about "winning hearts and minds"? Things are going great in Iraq, and they love us there. Don't believe the Mainsteam media. If the president tells us things are going well, that's enough for me. That photo was obviously photoshopped--the iraqis handing the soldiers flowers and candy were obviously erased by a pinko libral candian maple-syrup chugging reporter.<Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04655931693897466310noreply@blogger.com