Comments on: UPDATED: Scheuer: Big Bad Israel Vs. Poor Little Empire (The ‘Sir’ Thing)

By: My Ron-Paul i

My Ron-Paul i — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:17:22 +0000

Three short comments: (1) I am always leery about a CIA, especially an “operations division” capable of causing trouble and not being under the Defense Department. Even worse is when people from them start interfering in American politics while also hiding from sight using “secrecy” – Valerie Plame and her husband are good examples.

(2) Funny reading about being Jews as “the chosen people”:

http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2002/08/03/god-names-next.html

(3) And an interesting piece by Professor Walter Block over whether Ron Paul is anti-Semitic:

http://lewrockwell.com/block/block183.html

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:17:41 +0000

For those that may have missed it, my last sentence was sarcasm.

By: JD Hicks

JD Hicks — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:12:21 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with the comments regarding Sheuer’s use of sir its totally contrived.I also cringe when he’s introduced as former head of the OBL unit as if he were in danger in his cubicle.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:36:27 +0000

Israel has spied on us. Bad. We have spied on Israel. Also bad. It’s a complicated world filled with complicated poeple. Israel is our ally and we are their ally regardless of the curent idiots in power in Washington. Most of them are hardly Americans anyway. Get over the little messes and get on with the fight for survival against the Muslims.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:10:31 +0000

All friends and neighbors should be aware of the events around them. So should nations; but, adding venom to awareness is foolish. You’ve argued the “intellectual property” argument before and Michael Scheuer doesn’t add any new arguments. Japan also refuses to accept American copyright, so what! Even so, Israel is ahead of the US in some areas and Sheuer can only be envious. 6.4 Billion people, 15 million Jews and its all their fault, so we have to watch them carefully.

By: Rob Stove

Rob Stove — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:35:05 +0000

I tend to use the word “sir” more than even most Americans (and certainly very much more than Australians, military or otherwise) do. These days, amid Australia’s crass egalitarianism, I find that one well placed “sir” amid a rebuke – as in, for instance, “That, sir, constitutes the purest neocon bilge” – is so unexpected by the average hearer as to possess an offensive impact equaling about 10 F-words or C-words.

But the all-time best employment of the term was once undertaken by a commanding officer in the British army, whose name I don’t know. He is said (according to a SPECTATOR letter from many years back) to have bellowed at a neophyte: “Sir, you will call me ‘sir’. And I, sir, will call you ‘sir.’ The difference will be, sir, that when you call me ‘sir,’ YOU WILL MEAN IT.”

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:14:00 +0000

Nations often spy on each other as a WPA program for the spies to have something to do to feel useful.

Scheuer has had a bug up his butt about Israel for years for reasons I can’t really fathom – possibly just as a response to the neocon idiots

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:20:00 +0000

You know what else annoys me about Scheuer? And this may sound silly of me, but he says “sir,” way too much when he’s being interviewed.