Pennsylvanians acting retarded? Quelle surprise.
Type: Posts; User: Syme
Pennsylvanians acting retarded? Quelle surprise.
Nope, it's the name of a character from G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, one of the most significant novels of the 20th century IMO.
Back to Iran... Personally I am somewhat suspicious...
Just read a bit of Chesterton?
So, in keeping with my recent habit of only posting about interesting Middle East related news items, here's something that's been in the headlines recently: Iran's nuclear program.
Most experts...
Are you trying to suggest that maybe the group that was fired upon didn't really have any weapons at all, and that the weapons later found at the scene of the attack weren't theirs? Because you can...
If this is the argument you want to advance, you should have made it in the first place, rather than simply saying that the helicopter was in no danger of being hit by ground fire. Without...
What on earth makes you think that aircraft only have an excuse to engage ground targets if they are in danger of being hit by fire from those ground targets? Are you saying that when attack...
There are definitely guys with AKs, but I don't think the video quality we have here makes it possible to say with total certainty that there was an RPG. However, going back over the section you...
Exactly. The blood of those civilians (and of many of the hundreds of thousands of other Iraqi civilians who have died since 2003) is on the hands of the Bush administration officials who decided to...
I think what you mean is that the Army PR guys or whoever later dishonestly claimed that there was a firefight going on in the area. The Apache crews never claimed they had received fire, which is...
Could you elaborate?
EDIT:
What gave you that idea? It was the Army that tried to cover it up with their report that all the dead were insurgents engaged in a firefight, the CIA is totally...
From the Huffington Post article:
"The crew also mistook a telephoto lens for a rocket-propelled grenade."
That's why they opened fire, and assuming their mistake was an honest one, they were...
Also I have to say that this is a bit silly:
The politics of nearly ALL countries are, to some degree, influenced by the religious attitudes of whatever portions of the populace hold such...
Sure, I agree that such propensities exist. And of course I agree that some conditions make people happy while others make them unhappy!
What I disagree with is the attempt to jump from these...
Do you have such a reason? Other than "Well, Y viewpoint just sounds right to me"?
It's treated as axiomatic because people have come to realize that morality is a purely social construct...
On the topic of the Taliban in Swat: Before we start talking about how we should deal with them, let's bear in mind that it's not us who is dealing with them at all, but the Pakistani government. ...
Well, in my opinion, not really. I understand why countries are upset about their passports being used by a hit squad, but at the same time, don't try to tell me that, for instance, the British have...
Generally speaking, I personally don't view it as morally reprehensible for a country or group that's involved in warfare (declared/official or otherwise) to carry out assassinations or "targeted...
But that doesn't tell you anything, because the Israeli government's policy is to NEVER confirm or deny that they were responsible for an assassination, regardless of the truth. The point of this...
Ahh oops sorry about that... somehow I thought you had said it. My mistake.
This is what you said:
Not white, not European, not Caucasian, but "remarkably Jewish".
I really, seriously don't think the photos in and of themselves have much value as evidence at...
Right, what I'm baffled about is what has lead you to believe in the first place that their appearance is particularly indicative of membership in that ethnic group. In other words, the fact that...
Right, I'm not saying that my guesstimates about the ethnic origin of the people in that photo are conclusively correct, just airing my opinion that the "they look Jewish" argument is a thin one. ...
Well, here's hoping this gets decided the right way. We should be seeing a decision by the end of the summer. Fingers crossed.
Canadians who try to explain Canadian politics to Americans