tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post4107974131814033219..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Why We FightPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-47794547154914146012009-10-07T17:47:55.086-07:002009-10-07T17:47:55.086-07:00Gates the other day said there were fewer than 100...<i>Gates the other day said there were fewer than 100 aQ loyalists in Afghanistan.</i><br /><br />Yeah, I saw that. Another eight years, and we should have those dead-enders completely mopped up.<br /><br /><i>people actually needful of services which the improvement of conditions for all would entail would rather suffer than see the detested 'other' improve...</i><br /><br />Exactly.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-53066079105327708962009-10-07T14:32:19.374-07:002009-10-07T14:32:19.374-07:00but I tend to think it has to do with misogyny (ca...<i>but I tend to think it has to do with misogyny (caring about people is feminine / gay) and racism (my hard-earned money will go to help lazy blacks and thieving Mexicans).</i><br /><br />It's absolutely TEXTBOOK classical "racism." Not the individual acts of bias, bigotry, intolerance; that's not "racism." That's pretty normal stuff amongst us humans. <br /><br />"Racism" is different. It's the system understandings, agreements, and arrangements that naturalizes and endorses those acts, to such an extent that people actually needful of services which the improvement of conditions for all would entail would rather suffer than see the detested 'other' improve...<br /><br />I usta have to do something like that lecture/discussion every semester, in every class i taught, because the matter is so poorly understood. I put some synopsis in the course readings/outline, and included it on the test...Woody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-85206716985756653512009-10-07T14:21:55.697-07:002009-10-07T14:21:55.697-07:00Gates the other day said there were fewer than 100...Gates the other day said there were fewer than 100 aQ loyalists in Afghanistan. aQ apparently has moved on, according to DoD intelligence. Mebbe to Sudan, or Somalia? Anyway, sending another 40k troops to defend the population from fewer than 100 aQ fighters is to admit that these mujahadeen ARE 'supermen.' 400 to one? There usta be jokes about the italian army on that scale...Woody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-34602901239385293352009-10-07T08:44:16.281-07:002009-10-07T08:44:16.281-07:00Oh, and your Dickens allusion is duly noted.
Oh, ...<i>Oh, and your Dickens allusion is duly noted.</i><br /><br />Oh, goroo!Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-9052712336648387192009-10-07T08:39:27.726-07:002009-10-07T08:39:27.726-07:00I don't understand why a country would be will...<i>I don't understand why a country would be willing to bankrupt itself on a war while its own citizens die from lack of medical care. I know there are reasons.</i><br /><br />It's pretty clear why it's popular with politicians. Why it's accepted by citizens is a more vexing question...but I tend to think it has to do with misogyny (caring about people is feminine / gay) and racism (my hard-earned money will go to help lazy blacks and thieving Mexicans). <br /><br />Having lived in Canada, I've seen these attitudes there, too. But it's not as common and not nearly as rabid, IMO.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-2361882274889431992009-10-07T00:56:27.333-07:002009-10-07T00:56:27.333-07:00Substitute "Vietnam" for "Afghanist...Substitute "Vietnam" for "Afghanistan" and "Vietcong" for "Al Qaeda" and we're right back in the 1960's.<br /><br />Oh, and your Dickens allusion is duly noted.Makarioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08392249532355639518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-47105613641580197502009-10-06T12:04:14.576-07:002009-10-06T12:04:14.576-07:00I don't understand why a country would be will...I don't understand why a country would be willing to bankrupt itself on a war while its own citizens die from lack of medical care. I know there are reasons. And our Bush-lite PM here in Canada is doing his best to emulate the disaster south of the boarder. But I just don't get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-41595277976912895872009-10-06T11:49:09.182-07:002009-10-06T11:49:09.182-07:00Shorter Gates:
"We've got them just wher...Shorter Gates:<br /><br />"We've got them just where they want us!"grouchomarxistnoreply@blogger.com