Comments on: Bhutto’s assassination *UPDATED* http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:49:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18373 Bookworm Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:26:37 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18373 Re the last comment, it repeats a trend I've noticed (and that you can't see because only I got M_Z's email address): the antisemites always leave fake Jewish names. There's something Freudian going on with that one. Incidentally, MZ left another comment which was simply a wholesale incorporation of someone else's blog post. I deleted it because it went against two policies I have: (1) using my blog to parrot other people's blogs and (2) crass antisemitism. Re the last comment, it repeats a trend I’ve noticed (and that you can’t see because only I got M_Z’s email address): the antisemites always leave fake Jewish names. There’s something Freudian going on with that one.

Incidentally, MZ left another comment which was simply a wholesale incorporation of someone else’s blog post. I deleted it because it went against two policies I have: (1) using my blog to parrot other people’s blogs and (2) crass antisemitism.

]]> By: M_Z http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18372 M_Z Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:38:03 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18372 Islamist moderate are like moderate Zionists. There is no such thing. Islamist moderate are like moderate Zionists. There is no such thing.

]]> By: zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18374 zhombre Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:21:57 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18374 I suspect, to the contrary, the problem is not with the bankruptcy of U.S. policy but with the innate insolvency of Pakistan. Pakistan was formed to be the first Islamic state and has proved Islam is not compatible with modern statecraft. I suspect, to the contrary, the problem is not with the bankruptcy of U.S. policy but with the innate insolvency of Pakistan. Pakistan was formed to be the first Islamic state and has proved Islam is not compatible with modern statecraft.

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18377 ymarsakar Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:11:25 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18377 <B>"I can't explain why the Bush administration didn't pressure Musharraf to do more. Her death leaves the US with a Pakistan policy that is completely bankrupt."</b> I guess mercenaries are popular again when the lives of the elite are on the line, eh? “I can’t explain why the Bush administration didn’t pressure Musharraf to do more. Her death leaves the US with a Pakistan policy that is completely bankrupt.”

I guess mercenaries are popular again when the lives of the elite are on the line, eh?

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18376 ymarsakar Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:59:28 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18376 That should be Protection, not production. That should be Protection, not production.

]]> By: ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18375 ymarsakar Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:58:50 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18375 You know the State Department and other Democrats would have had trouble approving of that. Bad for the image, you know, what with all those "death blossoming" jackboots around on camera. Michael Williamson did a nice portrayal of Executive Production outfits like Blackwater in his novel "Better to Beg Forgiveness" published by baen and available on ebook format. You know the State Department and other Democrats would have had trouble approving of that. Bad for the image, you know, what with all those “death blossoming” jackboots around on camera.

Michael Williamson did a nice portrayal of Executive Production outfits like Blackwater in his novel “Better to Beg Forgiveness” published by baen and available on ebook format.

]]> By: zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18379 zhombre Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:35:00 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18379 Now here's something interesting: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/30/wbhutto230.xml Looks as if Bhutto desired to hire Blackwater for security. Had she done so, she might still be alive. Now here’s something interesting:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/30/wbhutto230.xml

Looks as if Bhutto desired to hire Blackwater for security. Had she done so, she might still be alive.

]]> By: zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18378 zhombre Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:26:26 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18378 I offer some useful examples: the assassin who shot Bhutto was moderate. The accompanying suicide bomber was radical. I offer some useful examples: the assassin who shot Bhutto was moderate. The accompanying suicide bomber was radical.

]]> By: Mike Devx http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18380 Mike Devx Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:10:10 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18380 Ah, jj, don't give up hope. General Petraeus - the real 'Man of the Year', not Putin - has shown in Iraq that wisdom, intelligence, and proper strategy can achieve results that cause the advance of civilization and the retreat of barbarism. Islam is mired in a cesspool of totalitarian, repressive, barbaric philosophic thought. It's been spiralling down to this point for about three centuries. Things are so bad right now that Islam can easily be described as anti-science and even anti-thought. During our own Christian Dark Ages, we had Aquinas and other thoughtful philosophisers. Islam has very little these days... The recent decades-long oil glut has benefitted solely those who spread the current poisonous message. (Thank you VERY much, Saudi Arabia.) This era is truly the Dark Ages of Islam. It was never this bad in our own Western era of Christian totalitarian Dark Ages, was it? I do not think so. Middle Eastern countries have a culture of violence that makes our own American culture of violence look like kids playing patty-cake. (Understand, I *like* the American culture of violence when I compare it to our shrinking violets over in Europe; and due to my belief that predators exist, and human predators actively enjoy preying upon the weak in every soul-destroying way that they can.) It's merely our own unfortunate circumstance to be alive at this time, to have to shoulder the responsibility for the fight. In the end, if civilized forces within Islam cannot transform it from within, we will transform it from without - perhaps after a very long, civilization-searing struggle, perhaps easily. Ah, jj, don’t give up hope. General Petraeus - the real ‘Man of the Year’, not Putin - has shown in Iraq that wisdom, intelligence, and proper strategy can achieve results that cause the advance of civilization and the retreat of barbarism.

Islam is mired in a cesspool of totalitarian, repressive, barbaric philosophic thought. It’s been spiralling down to this point for about three centuries. Things are so bad right now that Islam can easily be described as anti-science and even anti-thought. During our own Christian Dark Ages, we had Aquinas and other thoughtful philosophisers. Islam has very little these days… The recent decades-long oil glut has benefitted solely those who spread the current poisonous message. (Thank you VERY much, Saudi Arabia.) This era is truly the Dark Ages of Islam. It was never this bad in our own Western era of Christian totalitarian Dark Ages, was it? I do not think so.

Middle Eastern countries have a culture of violence that makes our own
American culture of violence look like kids playing patty-cake. (Understand, I *like* the American culture of violence when I compare it to our shrinking violets over in Europe; and due to my belief that predators exist, and human predators actively enjoy preying upon the weak in every soul-destroying way that they can.)

It’s merely our own unfortunate circumstance to be alive at this time, to have to shoulder the responsibility for the fight. In the end, if civilized forces within Islam cannot transform it from within, we will transform it from without - perhaps after a very long, civilization-searing struggle, perhaps easily.

]]> By: jj http://www.bookwormroom.com/2007/12/27/bhuttos-assassination/#comment-18368 jj Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:49:36 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=2290#comment-18368 I'm beginning toi think the term "Islamic moderate" is a nice, fuzzy, feel-good term we invented to describe a creature who essentially doesn't exist. Kind of like "Big-Foot." To describe these people as animals is to denigrate the animal kingdom. I begin to grow sick of these people. All of them. I’m beginning toi think the term “Islamic moderate” is a nice, fuzzy, feel-good term we invented to describe a creature who essentially doesn’t exist. Kind of like “Big-Foot.”

To describe these people as animals is to denigrate the animal kingdom. I begin to grow sick of these people. All of them.

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