See, what is flummoxing you liberals is that a statement like “There have been no terrorist attacks on the US since Bush’s war on terror began” is actually not up for debate.

Right, it’s not up for debate, because it’s demonstrably false. Nearly every attack on US forces, allies, or “contractors” in Iraq has been characterized as a terrorist attack. Plus the anthrax and DC sniper attacks were on US soil, so you can’t really move the goalposts on that. As has been pointed out. Repeatedly.

Unless, of course, you want to advance the idea that Amerithrax and the Beltway sniper were false flag operations and that state terrorism isn’t terrorism. But I don’t think you do want to do that.

Wow, so idiotic on so many levels.

We have not caught the masterminds behind 9/11. They still roam free. When faced with the prospect of finishing the job in Afghanistan, we declared a false victory and up and left to go fight a pointless war in Iraq. We have not damaged Al-Qaida in any significant measure. If anything, we have helped their recruitment process. You must have also missed those memos that announced that international terrorism has increased over the past five years.

The reason why there have been no attacks on the US since 9/11 is because the Bush Administration finally learned to take this shit seriously. Bush, Rice, etc. ignored the outgoing Clinton Administration’s warnings about the severity of Al-Qaida and Bin Laden. Condi and Co. never took Richard Clark’s memos seriously.

Sadly, it took 9/11 for the Fool in Chief to wake up. Unfortunately, he also exploited 9/11 for political gain afterward. However, it didn’t quite help Rudi G. Gotta love those Republicans.

I also don’t know where you get the “imminent threat” meme from. That’s news to me. I’m sure you’ll just keep believing whatever you want regardless. Keep blathering on, we all need a laugh every now and then.

It is, however, wrong to say things as stupid as the things Professor Zywicki says here and to express them as badly as he does. Or if it’s not, it should be.

The grammar’s not as bad as you think. Teh stupid, however, is.

I’d say his third greatest acheivement was drawing attention to the deplorable state of the construction of the levies in New Orleans.

How would we have known otherwise?

The nation owes him a debt of gratitude …

You know, there hasn’t been an attack on U.S. soil since I started blogging at Sadly No!, and I don’t know how much credit I directly get for the absence of attacks, but it’s really a major accomplishment of mine that we haven’t been attacked.

Dude, come on – stop aiming so low – we ALSO haven’t been wiped out by a giant asteroid since the launch of this site! Snark as a quantum-based deflector of menacing cosmic debris – who knew?

Our wise wingnut-sniping (& planet-protecting) avatar Clif, that’s who.

Al Qaeda metastasized during the Clinton years, which were years of foreign policy neglect

Bosnia? Rwanda? Somalia?

That’s a mighty interesting way of defining “neglect” you’ve got there – never mind that Clinton actually made more than a half-hearted effort to nail Bin Laden, unlike George “I just don’t think about him very much” Bush … & you’re welcome to look up just WHERE Atta & some of his kamikaze-posse were spending time when they weren’t watching the peelers … turns out they were at a flight-school in Florida – one whose owner’s Lear Jet was raided on an Orlando runway while carrying 43 pounds of heroin on board – & doing crazy shit like night-time take-offs & landings on an airstrip that strictly forbade such shenannigans, without any consequences – & quite possibly helping the CIA to run heroin & coke* Stateside. Not exactly off the radar – but a bit too sensitive to be disturbed.

Yeah, blowback is a real bitch, alright.

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* But of course, to suggest that the US government would actually be involved in the drug-trade with known terrorists – that’s all just crazy talk, right?

I can’t believe nobody has parsed this in 217 comments. It means that on 12/12/2008 we’ll be able to say no major terrorist attacks on American soil in the next seven years.

Grammar is not the problem with this guy, it’s a symptom. I look forward to Kevin Kline playing him in the Wanda sequel.

What’s all this about my meade?

Cod, I tuna my back on you for a little while and you all make asps of yourselves.

Now you gobie good kids and try the thread upstairs.

It’s the everyday object as cultural touchstone finals! Kurlansky vs. Petroski! Down and dirty in the MUDMudmudmud…

He replied:
There is nothing on earth as sweet as Sugar.
Sugar has made kings and brought great expeditions to explore the world.
America was discovered in search of India where Sugar could be traded for precious articles.
Throughout history man has used Sugar to build empires, and some peoples have used Sugar as money.

You’re wrong, Master, everything you have said about Sugar really applies to salt, not Sugar.
It’s in all of the history books.

Oh, that’s right, the Master replied.

Another young man then asked,
But what of Salt, Master?

He replied:
There is nothing on earth as salty as Salt.
Salt has made kings and brought great expeditions to explore the world.
America was discovered in search of India where Salt could be traded for precious articles.
Throughout history man has used Salt to build empires, and some peoples have used Salt as money.

No thanks, I’ve got a paper cut.

Oh, and the cod wars were actually about salt (I just happen to be in the middle of a book on the history of salt).

FUCK