“The trolls are awfully quiet recently.”
I’ve started to wonder why I bother. Take a look through the responses to my post in this thread and ask how many actually construct an argument. It’s all just a bunch of straw-men and ad-hominem. MM demanded a detailed response on another thread so I wrote one – he never bothered to properly respond. The effort is a one-way street. Your post epitomises that – no matter what I say you’ll just generate one of your brilliant one-liners.
The endless stream of egypt threads is also very tedious. Don’t get me wrong – what’s HAPPENING in egypt is incredibly important. But what people are SAYING about it isn’t important at all. It’s possible to write a column using what’s happening in egypt to support any ridiculous position you like – and that’s precisely what people are doing.
It’s also quite irritating to keep reading articles that are founded on the assumption that the US (or anyone else) should “do something”. The US (along with most of the west) is irrelevant at this point. The egyptians appear to have the right idea, and apparently they have for a while – now they just need to finish the job for themselves.
So it’s been pretty slim pickings for threads worth responding to.
