Comments on: Palin Pants For War

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:57 +0000

We’ll see what Sarah thinks of war when her son who is in the military comes back in over sized Ziploc from the Middle East. [G-d forbid. However, Palin was FOR war when her son was in “Eyeraq.” That’s what a Moloch worshiper she is.]

For more on my thoughts on it all, please see the following letter: http://www.vdare.com/letters/tl_051609.htm#b3

By: joydbrower

joydbrower — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:15:19 +0000

Excellent discussion of war-mongering and the role that so-called “neo-cons” have played in our sad history of same. Wonder what we’d do, however, if war came to these shores? Is all-out everything OK then?

By: Stephen Hayes

Stephen Hayes — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:12:50 +0000

I’ll tell you, Graham, I’m not seeing anyone on the horizon in the GOP willing to talk sense but Ron Paul and Son. I don’t know where Bachman is on this Libya thing. Nobody talks about the constitution outside the tea party group.

I read years ago that many during the days of the collapse of Rome commonly believed that there was a great conspiracy in Rome to ruin the empire, because people could not believe that their government was so inept by accident. It had to be on purpose. I don’t know what other conclusion we can draw when we see the blatantly treasonous behavior in Washington. Certainly, some of them are fools and idiots. But many are worse. It’s the rare voice you hear calling for sanity. Conspiracies big and small, shallow people inept and vicious and corrupt. Everybody angling for advantage or posturing for position and influence, lining their pockets and lying like rugs.

Is it any wonder the streets are full of criminals? The halls of power are full of them. And the lone voices who speak up are shouted down as cranks and extremists. These criminals have to go. The Constitution must be saved, because, to paraphrase the idiot in chief — it’s the only thing that stands between us and the pitchforks.

When the president won’t defend the Constitution and openly betrays it, he needs to be fired and we need to hire somebody with honor and good character who will defend it. Something has to give here pretty soon. What’s happening now ain’t working. Throw the bums out. Damnocrats, neocons, crooks, liars, bed wetters, self styled saviors, all of them.

By: Graham Strouse

Graham Strouse — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:44:25 +0000

I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head their, Stephen. I just wonder how much is machination & how much is sheer momentum.

As a wise man once said, Jane, stop this crazy thing!”

By: Stephen Hayes

Stephen Hayes — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:41:29 +0000

It’s an interesting thing that at times like these we seem to get sucked into this idiocy that one must favor war to be a real American, and if you favor peace and oppose war, you are somehow un-American. I speak as a Vietnam Era vet. Do you remember when Vietnam used to be a war, and now it’s an era? How do we get pulled into this thinking, especially when we’ve been there before and can see the outcome? The outcome being no outcome, it never ends. I don’t mean we like you and me, but the nation. And it seems to always come back to leadership of lack thereof. These dim bulbs get elected and their machinations carry them, and us, away on these lunatic adventures. And always our reactions to them are supposed to be a measure of our loyalty to the nation.

I think, too, that events are way out in front of the Obama regime, and they have to keep trying to look like they have their hands on the reins, but they don’t. And it’s not just him, but the neocon crowd supports this adventurism as well. They just don’t like the way Obama is doing it. They could do it better, I’m sure.

We are at the mercy of traitors and blind guides and fools. Are these dopes the best we can do?

By: Graham Strouse

Graham Strouse — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:35:54 +0000

For what it’s worth, Henry, I’m none to fond of Samantha Power either. She reeks of HuffPo-style left wing anti-semitism. But she only has so much power. And Obama, whatever his faults, has is almost pathologically phlegmatic. Clinton is probably a more dangerous bigot where Israel is concerned. She has a Mel Gibsonesque history of anti-Jewish tirades & a lot more clout.

By: Graham Strouse

Graham Strouse — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:57:05 +0000

It just drives me nuts when otherwise sensible folks ascribe improbable intents & patently unlikely motives based on tribal loyalties & political assumptions with minimal evidence to back their claims. Very little in life is a priori. Thread jacking is kind of jack move & I am sorry if I have offended.

By: Graham Strouse

Graham Strouse — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:49:01 +0000

Obama is uncomfortable with conflict unless it’s on the basketball court. He tries to run the oval office like a faculty meeting–consider his selection of top advisors. He is, literally & technically African-American but so is Ilana. Obama isn’t a socialist or a radical. He’s a policy wonk who probably wishes he was helping a PhD student with his dissertation right now. I WISH he was, too. He’s not very good at this President thing. But the likelihood of Obama doing something truly radical (for good or for bad) is pretty bloody low. Dairy Queen is more radical then Obama.

By: Graham Strouse

Graham Strouse — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:44:34 +0000

Israel’s biggest concerns remain Iran, Syria, possibly Iraq & the Muslim Brotherhood & their proxies. I don’t understand Bibi’s decision to expand settlements right now. It just seems foolish–it reduces their buffer zone & plays into the hands of Iran & Syria’s formidable PR machine. AS for Palin doubling down, well, yeah–she would. It gets her ratings & speaking engagements & enriches her. She enjoys conning people because it helps her accumulate stuff. She’s not a pundit or a politician. She’s a reality show tramp who knows how to play her audiene & her base.

By: derek

derek — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:08:57 +0000

By the way, I have a feeling that Obama’s casus belli, embedded in the following excerpt from his speech, will turn out to be a lot like WMD in Iraq: Along those lines how about this blast from the past from Madeleine K. Albright. On April 20, 1999, in front of the Senate foreign Relations Committee, she testified that Serbs were using Albanians as 'human blood banks.' ...the seizure of civilians for use as human shields and human blood banks,... Thank God we stopped those vampires.