Comments on: Obama has reaffirmed double standard for Israel/Iran on NPT

By: Shingo

Shingo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:08:09 +0000

“Shingo’s summary is innaccurate.”

Translation: Isreali propaganda doesn’t work when they come up against reality.

By: Shafiq

Shafiq — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:52:43 +0000

Oh please,

Iran has every reason to need a deterrence. The sanctions, the US refusal to hold diplomatic links, the Iran-Iraq war…do I need to mention more?

Quit the bullshit, it’s embarrassing.

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:37:09 +0000

I did that already, Richard. Your long term goals are reasonable–where you fall short is in how to get there. You have double standards. I said some of what I found objectionable already and am starting to get bored with it. You’re useful to have around as an example of somewhat well-intentioned, but subconsciously biased individual–you’re much like the sort of person that writes NYT editorials on this subject. There’s no shortage of handwringing liberals in the US who say they want a fair solution and probably mean it, in some sense, but in practice lean heavily towards the Israeli side. We don’t need enthusiastic Hamas supporters either–but your approach is what we’ve had for decades and it’s a failure, if reconciliation is the goal.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:08:33 +0000

Shingo’s summary is innaccurate.

Donald,
Would you care to summarize what you think my views and objectives are, for the sake of some clarity?

By: VR

VR — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:32:54 +0000

Hey Richard, I thought you did not own a TV, if you are so distrustful of TV news why do you quote it?

“Otherwise, why would they do all this in such a deceptive manner?” Gates said Sunday in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.””

Like always, you always contradict yourself when it is convenient. You, as well as others, better learn that the terminal point on any argument does not fall to the assumption that the USA or Israel own the world – they don’t. If you do not want this intrigue than get American troops off Iran’s neighbors soil now, and stop the Israeli cheer leading bullshit for another war.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:15:23 +0000

Israel’s prusuit and aquisition of nukes preeded the Iranian revolutino by decades, and in fact, took place during a period when Israel and Iran were allies. In any case, Israel’s contempt for world opinion mean that anyone’s opinion regarding their right to exist is of no consequence.

The word deterrance is as isleading as the term self defence. They are both code for agression and domination.

By: Shingo

Shingo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:12:30 +0000

We have bothered to understand your views and in the end, your path for progress can be summed up as follows. The Palestinians should surrender all notions of self determination, sovereingty and dignity and maybe, just maybe, the Israelis might stop butchering them. If the Israelis should choose to continue the brutalization of the Palestinians, then it simply proves the Palestinians have not tried hard enough to placate Israel.

How’s that?

By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:34:12 +0000

You guys starting to understand why it’s pointless to even stand up in defense of Witty? Get in front of him, and you end up with a knife in your back. A dull and small knife, granted, but still.

By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:31:06 +0000

Yeah! You are one gullible person if you don’t fall in line with Richard’s blind condemnation of all things Arab!

Does anyone wonder what Witty thinks about the USS Liberty incident, considering? I’d love to hear him justify that to us.

By: MRW

MRW — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:29:11 +0000

I mean, think about it. If you’re going to make bombs for sale and you speak a language that no one but your country speaks, why would you mark up your goods with a language that no one can understand on the instrument of sale?

Gore Vidal said it best in a recent interview:

“Does anyone care what Americans think? They’re the worst-educated people in the First World. They don’t have any thoughts, they have emotional responses, which good advertisers know how to provoke.”

The same applies to the drivel that I hear constantly apologizing for Israel: twisted tales of logic straight out of Mother Goose. What annoys me is that I have to spend hours sometimes daily capturing the original news before forces-that-be get the initial reports wiped off the web. My collection should be worth a fortune someday to a worthy historian. I’m up to 70 GBs.