tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post7754931504858343589..comments2023-06-16T06:27:31.555-07:00Comments on qunfuz: A Plague on Both their Housesqunfuzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07381648516025592849noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-89856308810650232792008-11-11T09:37:00.000-08:002008-11-11T09:37:00.000-08:00corkoniense - I was in Dublin yesterday.Anyway, I ...corkoniense - I was in Dublin yesterday.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I haven't been in the West (until now) since the invasion of Iraq, so I don't know which country resisted the war most. None resisted very well, but Spain seems to me to have done better than the US.<BR/><BR/>I don't consider any country to be democratic. The word is one of those tools of illusion - like 'terrorism.'qunfuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07381648516025592849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-24897648093482612162008-11-10T08:04:00.000-08:002008-11-10T08:04:00.000-08:00Qunfuz said: I wouldn’t use the word ‘democracy’ t...Qunfuz said: I wouldn’t use the word ‘democracy’ to describe American society, but America is dynamic, fluid, and has great democratic potential.<BR/><BR/>that's an interesting way of looking at it. Bush had no interest in democracy, and the neo-cons are thugs, but I always felt that social, political and cultural resistance to the Iraq war was greater in America than in any other western country.<BR/><BR/>by the way, what country would you consider to be democratic?corkoniensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07360785363196616092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-17002220081788339702008-11-09T05:07:00.000-08:002008-11-09T05:07:00.000-08:00ALEXANDER COCKBURN on Emanuel:Emanuel… represents ...ALEXANDER COCKBURN on Emanuel:<BR/><BR/>Emanuel… represents the worst of the Clinton years. His profile as regards Israel is explored well on this site by lawyer John Whitbeck. He’s a former Israeli citizen, who volunteered to serve in Israel in 1991 and who made brisk millions in Wall Street. He is a super-Likudnik hawk, whose father was in the fascist Irgun in the late Forties, responsible for cold-blooded massacres of Palestinians. Dad’s unreconstructed ethnic outlook has been memorably embodied in his recent remark to the Ma’ariv newspaper that “Obviously he [Rahm] will influence the president to be pro-Israel… Why wouldn’t he be [influential]? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going to clean the floors of the White House.”<BR/><BR/>Working in the Clinton White House, Emanuel … He favored the war in Iraq, and when he was chairing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006 he made great efforts to knock out antiwar Democratic candidates. On this site in October and November, 2006, John Walsh documented both the efforts and Emanuel’s role in losing the Democrats seats they would otherwise have won.<BR/><BR/>In 2006 Emanuel had just published a book with Bruce Reed called The Plan: Big Ideas for America, with one section focused on “the war on terror”. Emanuel and Reed wrote, “We need to fortify the military’s ‘thin green line ‘around the world by adding to the U.S. Special Forces and the Marines, and by expanding the U.S. army by 100,000 more troops. …Finally we must protect our homeland and civil liberties by creating a new domestic counterterrorism force like Britain’s MI5.” Recall that Obama has been calling throughout his recent campaign for an addition of 92,000 to the US Army and US Marine Corps.qunfuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07381648516025592849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-55596522748259142902008-11-06T01:02:00.000-08:002008-11-06T01:02:00.000-08:00It appears you have predicted correctly, Qunfuz. O...It appears you have predicted correctly, Qunfuz. Obama's first appointment to his cabinet is Rahm Emanuel, a hardline zionist and son of an Irgun terrorist. As the Angry Arab wrote today: "Remember me when Obama will endorse an Israeli war on a refugee camp and on a Lebanese village, and he will call that justified self-defense."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-7335846158314754672008-11-04T14:27:00.000-08:002008-11-04T14:27:00.000-08:00I mean, he's expressed love for the apartheid stat...I mean, he's expressed love for the apartheid state, wants to bomb Pakistan and intensify the occupation of Afghanistan, and you want me to make myself hope he's the man for the job? I'd rather make myself hope that pixies will save us.qunfuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07381648516025592849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-88749755161835471482008-11-04T14:08:00.000-08:002008-11-04T14:08:00.000-08:00Anonymous - I don't think your hope is realistic a...Anonymous - I don't think your hope is realistic at all. It's a pleasant illusion, one of the illusions necessary to the continuation of the system. Taking heroin is dirty work, but somebody has to do it.qunfuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07381648516025592849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-8291861399287705312008-11-04T13:21:00.000-08:002008-11-04T13:21:00.000-08:00We can hope for change from the bottom, but there ...We can hope for change from the bottom, but there probably isn't time for that given the sorry state of our world. The only realistic hope is for a lucky change from the top and Obama is the only man around who might be able to pull it off.<BR/><BR/>So let's at least make ourselves hope he's the man for the job. Hope is dirty work nowadays, but somebody has to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33889889.post-78241517084839286472008-11-01T11:07:00.000-07:002008-11-01T11:07:00.000-07:00Qunfuz,Hillary is the ultimate political opportuni...Qunfuz,<BR/><BR/>Hillary is the ultimate political opportunist. She turned from being a supporter of Palestinian to a kiss-ass Zionist sympathizer when she had to get the Jewish vote in her run for the senate from New York state. <BR/><BR/>It is the two-party system in the US that limits the scope of political discussions and the possibility of real transformative change in American policies.Rabi Tawil (AKA Abu Kareem)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01852076137303801731noreply@blogger.com