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By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:47:54 +0000

123. Ron
Ron you are right we aren’t in anyway in the same league as those folks (Nazi Germany or the murderous Japanese). My point badly expressed is that none of those folks are seen as enemies any more. My question is how do we get from a struggle to the death that we had with them then to the friendship we enjoy today with radical (or moderate) Islam?
There are Muslim dead in our military cemeteries. The most decorated unit of WWII was the 442 Infantry Regiment made up of Japanese Americans. To paint all Muslims as irredeemable is incorrect I hope.
My other point also badly expressed is that we too sometimes do evil in the name of good.

By: Ron Kean

Ron Kean — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:30:42 +0000

118. Joseph

Of course we know that Germans gassed millions, Japanese cut off Chinese heads for practice, and the North Vietnamese were brutal. But we weren’t. Of course there was collateral damage but our soldiers have never been as intentionlly amoral as other people. You may be angry that Truman used the bomb. That’s war. If you think waterboarding compares to all the other methods, I think you’re mistaken.

I would hope we could get past slavery and the Indians. But if anyone wants to flagellate himself or my country for long, I think that’s wrong.

As far as radical (or moderate) Islam…I think they think it’s them or us.

Find one and talk to him.

By: David M

David M — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:02:23 +0000

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By: Gaffe Prices

Gaffe Prices — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:42:22 +0000

As of today, the analogies to organised crime have reached critical mass, and will be yawned at and dismissed by Obama apologists as an unacceptable exaggeration.

We’ve reached the level where a more precise definition of these actions is that of the robber barons of old. And it brings up the kind of class warfare the constitutes the cap and trade, excuse me stock and trade of democrat party identity politics.

Ironic that Arlen Spector defects one day following what constititues an impeachable offence.

Spectors first duty as a new democrat should be to call for Obamas impeachment, based on this fly by at 1000 feet in NYC, and the subsequent denials, the buck passing, also Obama claiming he didn’t learn about it any sooner than the press did.

what did he know and when did he know it? Nothing regarding Air force One happens outside the purview and permission of the president. Ever. At all. Period, end of story.

By: TLM

TLM — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:25:54 +0000

Joseph:

What a smooth transition you make from “torturing” to killing. Waterboarding KSM hardly equates to MY Lai.

BTW, a “few decades ago few Americans would think twice about killing German, Japanese or North Vietnamese men woman or children…”, and at the time, the obverse was true as well. That’s usually how these sentiments come about.

Wherever you learned to think this way, remember, like the bumper sticker says:

QUESTION AUTHORITY (especially when it is totalitarian)

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:16:22 +0000

TLM (#4) wrote, “Nowadays, common sense IS contrarianism. In fact, it’s the new counter-culture. You just didn’t realize how radical you had become, how far you’d strayed from the new cultural norms of….stupidity.”

Masterfully said, bravo! Perhaps there’s something there – a germ of an idea around which to sell a new conservatism in time for the 2010 elections and 2012…

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:52:52 +0000

It is interesting that today no one here would think of torturing Germans, Japanese or even Vietnamese and those folks I don’t think would want to torture any of us. A few decades ago few Americans would think twice about killing German, Japanese or North Vietnamese men woman or children in any way possible. Go back a few more decades and the only good Indian was a dead Indian. I wonder how many Muslims we will need to kill to convince both sides to change their minds about killing each other.
How many Wounded Knee, My Lai, Dresden and Fire Bombings will we need to commit to win this one?

By: DEK

DEK — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:54:47 +0000

The high-toned morality of the Dems/Liberals is so compromised by their own moral corruption it reminds us that “legality” is always relative to circumstances and “interpretation”. Those standing firm on some point of law today were tax cheating, virtual bribe taking, mired in prior knowledge of events, etc. yesterday.

When those poor innocents jumped screaming from the Twin Towers, said a desperate, pathetic goodbye by cell phone to loved ones, they also created a set of circumstances through which to see “legality”. The death of 3,000 and undoubtedly more is easily worth some water up the nose for 3 strongly presumed killers.

Pretense and hypocrisy are disgusting when they ignore the rights of the innocent but already dead and those who might die.

As for the “slippery slope” of compromise…that’s where humanity has lived since the beginning…learning to live their successfully and justly is the struggle fo great nations like our own.

By: JFM

JFM — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:30:27 +0000

“Which part of torture don’t you understand?”

The part where my two years old daughter and myself were in terrorist cross-sights.