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• Missouri mosque burning: Imam says 'tragedy' will not 'stop us'
  • Midwesterner August 8, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    1988. According to the Oxford English Dictionary that's when the word was rolled out.

• 'War should be the last resort' --Donald Rumsfeld
  • Midwesterner June 1, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    All we are saying is give war a chance.

• Massacre in Afghanistan
  • Midwesterner March 12, 2012 at 11:37 am

    They hate us for our freedom to walk into their house and shoot their children.

• Mark Perry: Israel and Iran's 'low-level war' is 'dangerous stuff'
  • Midwesterner February 17, 2012 at 8:42 am

    Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
    Machiavelli

• 'NYT' gives big platform to Israeli journalist to espouse Israeli attack on Iran with OK from Uncle Sam
  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Why must it?

  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    Is it good for the Jews?

• Video: Atlanta Jewish Times publisher's tearful anti-apology
  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    For American gentiles?

  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    For Iran's Jews?

  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    Is it good for Iranians?

  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Is it good for the Jews?

  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    What is a useful idiot?

  • Midwesterner January 25, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    What is "happening with Iran and Israel"?

• Israel is at the heart of Jewish identity, Gorenberg says
  • Midwesterner January 23, 2012 at 1:52 pm with 1 replies

    "The critical contribution that diaspora Jews can make in engagement with Israel is to remind those of us here of the sharp experience of being the outsider, the stranger, so that we Israelis don’t forget where we came from."

    Three more questions.

    1) By "the outsider, the stranger" does he mean the Palestinians?

    2) Is that "the critical contribution"?

    3) Does "where we came from" outweigh "what we're doing"? and "where we're going"? and "what we've become"?

  • Midwesterner January 23, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    "Israel presents the opportunity for Jews to have power over their lives as a collective"

    What about the sentence that preceded that one?

    "the only way for people to act morally is to have power over their lives"

    Is that true?

    Also, what if "the only way to have power over" your life is to have power over somebody else's life?

    Safe to say that's a terrible position to be in if it's true?

• Video surfaces of American forces urinating on dead corpses in Afghanistan (and Pamela Geller loves it)
  • Midwesterner January 13, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to just buy it?

  • Midwesterner January 13, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    More questions.

    Why are our soldiers in Afghanistan?

    What are they accomplishing?

    What are they going to be like when they come home?

    The dead Afghans - what are their mothers going through right now? Ditto their fathers, their brothers and sisters, their wives (or sweethearts), their children, their friends?

    What is all of this about?

  • Midwesterner January 13, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Where are the Afghans' weapons?

    And the wheelbarrow?

    What if...?

• Israeli Supreme Court upholds discriminatory citizenship law: 'Human rights shouldn’t be a recipe for national suicide'
  • Midwesterner January 13, 2012 at 4:27 am

    No, that wasn't what I meant.

    I just wonder about stuff. Always have lots of questions. That's ok, isn't it?

  • Midwesterner January 12, 2012 at 7:35 pm with 15 replies

    Would a Palestinian who converts to Judaism have the right to return?

• Just wars-- and civilian casualties
  • Midwesterner January 13, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    "I thought it was obvious why a U.S. military intervention was impossible. Others have asked me to spell out the reasons. Very well...

    "The second reason is that Israel is indeed so powerful that the casualties on all sides would be horrendous–even if we leave aside the possibility that an Israel on the verge of defeat would use nuclear weapons–which would be more likely to occur than not."

    Question. Does the second reason apply to other countries as well? Would they like them for the same reason?

  • Midwesterner January 10, 2012 at 9:47 am

    Saddam and Gaddafy were in their late 60s. Anything to be said for being a little bit patient?

• Is Paul a precursor of a more presentable candidate in 2016?
  • Midwesterner January 7, 2012 at 12:48 pm with 2 replies

    What is "baggage"? Who decides what's baggage and what isn't?

    Why doesn't lying through your teeth count as "baggage"?

    Why doesn't being a sock puppet for special interests count as "baggage"?

    Why doesn't repeatedly hoodwinking the people you're supposed to be representing count as "baggage"?

    Just wondering.

• Ron Paul's antiwar position is simpleminded
  • Midwesterner January 7, 2012 at 8:36 am

    The Vietnam war.

    A million or so dead Vietnamese. 56,000 dead GIs.

    We went there to "go after" them.

    Then they "got after" us.

    Then we went home.

    What was that all about? Dominoes?

    Does anyone know?

    Does Jerome Slater? He's spent 40 years studying this stuff. He must have some idea.

  • Midwesterner January 6, 2012 at 9:38 pm

    Correction: Jerome Slater.

  • Midwesterner January 6, 2012 at 9:30 pm with 2 replies

    "Everyone thinks WWII was a just war."

    Is that true? Does everyone think that? Maybe so. But is there another way – are there other ways – of "assessing" that "event"? 46 million people killed is a lot of dead human beings. Was there a better way of getting from A to B?

    What exactly does it mean to "go after" the Taliban? McDonalds used to "tally" the hamburgers it had sold. 13 million sold. 15 million sold. That sort of thing. Does "going after" the Taliban mean killing a certain number of them? If so, how many? Or wounding them? Or disarming them? Or putting them on the payroll? Or what?

    What is the cost? What is the benefit? How do you measure these things? How do you know?

    Does Jeremy Slater know the answer to any of these questions?* If so, could he please shed some light on them? And if he can't, well, maybe he should think it through a bit more. We deserve better than sophomoric from distinguished university professors, "advisers", think tank types, etc. etc.

    *Does anyone?

  • unverified__5l45k22a January 6, 2012 at 7:34 pm with 1 replies

    "nation-building"

    "finish the job"

    What, specifically, do those two terms actually mean? They get bandied about all the time. I don't understand what they mean. Would appreciate it if someone would explain how, specifically, the United States, or any other country for that matter, "nation-builds". How does it happen? How do you know it's happened? Or is happening? When do you know it's happened?

    Ditto for "finish the job"? What do you have to do to "finish the job"? When is it "finished"? Indeed, what is "the job"? How do you know when it's "finished"? Is it ever "finished"?

    Just wondering.

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