Comments on: Obama on Meddling in Foreign Affairs: Then and Now http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/ Harangues that just make sense Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:33:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Hitchcock http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455403 John Hitchcock Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:26:18 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455403 I haven't had good matzo-ball soup since a couple years before my divorce. I need to find me a woman who makes the stuff. I haven’t had good matzo-ball soup since a couple years before my divorce. I need to find me a woman who makes the stuff.

]]> By: carlitos http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455398 carlitos Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:18:52 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455398 As a Lutheran with a penchant for latkes and matzo-ball soup, I denounce Cole. As a Lutheran with a penchant for latkes and matzo-ball soup, I denounce Cole.

]]> By: daleyrocks http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455396 daleyrocks Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:14:13 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455396 Plus Cole hates him some Joooooos. Plus Cole hates him some Joooooos.

]]> By: daleyrocks http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455395 daleyrocks Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:13:27 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455395 carlitos - It's too bad Michigan couldn't dump him on Yale because of his lousy scholarship. He likes hob nobbing with those despots alright. carlitos – It’s too bad Michigan couldn’t dump him on Yale because of his lousy scholarship. He likes hob nobbing with those despots alright.

]]> By: carlitos http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455390 carlitos Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:10:01 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455390 And for that rainbow comment, I denounce myself. And for that rainbow comment, I denounce myself.

]]> By: carlitos http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455387 carlitos Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:08:49 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455387 Juan Cole is a genius when it comes to Middle Eastern geopolitical history. He speaks arabic fluently, which is to say <i>nearly well enough to speak with arabs</i>. Juan Cole is a genius when it comes to Middle Eastern geopolitical history. He speaks arabic fluently, which is to say nearly well enough to speak with arabs.

]]> By: daleyrocks http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455379 daleyrocks Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:55:59 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455379 carlitos - What, no Juan Cole? carlitos – What, no Juan Cole?

]]> By: carlitos http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455374 carlitos Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:50:56 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455374 more 'deep thoughts' from that blog. <blockquote> A military in the service of a democracy is a dictatorship in defense of freedom. What holds the relationship together is not laws but trust. Trust is a sphere or a zone of ambiguity, not a rule. When rules are all that's left it's over.</blockquote> That leaves me thinking - 1) someone has never raised a teenager. 2) every democracy since ancient greece has had an army. obviously, eliminating the military would eliminate democracy, since others aren't really interested in our 'deep thoughts' naivete times ten more ‘deep thoughts’ from that blog.

A military in the service of a democracy is a dictatorship in defense of freedom. What holds the relationship together is not laws but trust. Trust is a sphere or a zone of ambiguity, not a rule.
When rules are all that’s left it’s over.

That leaves me thinking – 1) someone has never raised a teenager. 2) every democracy since ancient greece has had an army. obviously, eliminating the military would eliminate democracy, since others aren’t really interested in our ‘deep thoughts’

naivete times ten

]]> By: carlitos http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455370 carlitos Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:47:22 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455370 <blockquote>I have seen nothing to support sleepy’s contention that he is Jewish. Most Jews I know would be mortally embarrassed to post the kind of crap he has here.</blockquote> If he is really the guy with the name he gave earlier, he seems to be. Look at the links on his blog. Don't they just scream 'liberal self-hating jewish guy'? I bet he has a keffiyeh in all the colors of the rainbow. * Al Jazeera English * Angry Arab-As'ad AbuKhalil * Arab Links * Arabist * China Matters * Christie's * Conflicts Forum * Craig Murray * Drummerworld * DSquared * EDB * Electronic Intifada * Helena Cobban * Historiae-Reidar Visser * Jerry Haber * Joshua Landis * London Review of Books * McMaster-Carr * Michel de Montaigne * Non Arab Arab * Raed Jarrar * Roads to Iraq * Savage Minds * Sign and Sight * The Constitution * The Prado * Tony Karon * U.S. and Them

I have seen nothing to support sleepy’s contention that he is Jewish. Most Jews I know would be mortally embarrassed to post the kind of crap he has here.

If he is really the guy with the name he gave earlier, he seems to be. Look at the links on his blog. Don’t they just scream ‘liberal self-hating jewish guy’? I bet he has a keffiyeh in all the colors of the rainbow.

* Al Jazeera English
* Angry Arab-As’ad AbuKhalil
* Arab Links
* Arabist
* China Matters
* Christie’s
* Conflicts Forum
* Craig Murray
* Drummerworld
* DSquared
* EDB
* Electronic Intifada
* Helena Cobban
* Historiae-Reidar Visser
* Jerry Haber
* Joshua Landis
* London Review of Books
* McMaster-Carr
* Michel de Montaigne
* Non Arab Arab
* Raed Jarrar
* Roads to Iraq
* Savage Minds
* Sign and Sight
* The Constitution
* The Prado
* Tony Karon
* U.S. and Them

]]> By: daleyrocks http://patterico.com/2009/02/02/obama-on-meddling-in-foreign-affairs-then-and-now/comment-page-4/#comment-455198 daleyrocks Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:41:49 +0000 http://patterico.com/?p=21772#comment-455198 "So somehow being a jew, having my family referred to as camp guards is permissible?" I have seen nothing to support sleepy's contention that he is Jewish. Most Jews I know would be mortally embarrassed to post the kind of crap he has here. “So somehow being a jew, having my family referred to as camp guards is permissible?”

I have seen nothing to support sleepy’s contention that he is Jewish. Most Jews I know would be mortally embarrassed to post the kind of crap he has here.

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