“cold-eyed pursuit”. that means being a warmongering, innocent-destroying fascist asshole who wants to ‘glass’ the entire MidEast. Since violence has always been the last refuge of the uh, insane.

Note he said “undemocratic institutions“, not “undemocratic governments.� Most religious institutions are undemocratic, and they are, by self-definition, on the side of the angels. Q.E.D

Um, that would depend on my buying their nauseatingly self-serving self-descriptions, which I do not. In fact, I tend to lump people who self-describe as “being on the side of angels” in with serial killers, genocidal maniacs, necrophiles, and Catholic Priests pedophiles. Only difference is, they’re lying about who and what they are, so they bear even closer scrutiny than those other groups.

But our enemies, now they have a militaristic society! In spades. Plainly, they know how it should be done!

Actually, in this the NEOCONS mirror the very “supporters of terrorism” they hate. Both romaticise the “other” while viewing our own society as a decadent den of consumerism and other indulgences that make its citizens weak.

Never mind that most of that spending is Keynsian pump-priming thrown away on high-tech boondoggles that fail to improve – and often erode – fighting ability.

True. One problem we have is that our military is TOO trained – every combat outfit in the US army would qualiify as ‘Elite’ in any other army of the world and our doctrine is based on the assumption that our soldiers can be capable of undertaking tasks (like combined arms offensives that require tight coordination between different units and types of “arms”) that cannot never be trusted to draftees. Only 10% of the troops in uniform are part of units that train full-time for combat (as opposed to logistic, engineering, etc. duties), and it takes approx. 2 years of training before a new soldier is really up to speed. This means we cant afford to take too many losses – because we cant replace them in time and our doctrine is not built around using them.

We can not have peace throughout, before we have peace within.

Again, how laughable is it that homosexuals are in anyway to blame? There are homosexuals in every corner of the world, get over it already. One might as well propose left handed people are the devil, circa 600 B.C. -ish.

Keep telling yourself thatm if it helps you sleep at night, but don’t bring that bullshit here.

LOL Spartans. All I gotta say.

What the hell is he advocating? Military school for all kids? Does he think that boys in the 50s were handed a rifle at birth or something?

Cripes! Leave it to Jonah to make the st00pidest statement on any subject. I’d like to see him list *one* example! Just. One. Really, and taker yer time, Jonah, baybee–I have all the time in the world.

Note he said “undemocratic institutions“, not “undemocratic governments.” Most religious institutions are undemocratic, and they are, by self-definition, on the side of the angels. Q.E.D.

Fortunately, everyone with half a brain finally realizes what batshit insane morons they are. Unfortunately, about 30% of the country appears to not have half a brain, and a neocon still has his finger on the button, at least for another couple years. The only question now is whether they will succeed destroying everything and everyone in their Gotterdammerung, or whether it will just be themselves they destroy.

Our “enemy” is evil, cunning, intelligent, strong, disciplined, amoral, structured, united, and intent on a single, all-consuming goal: our total destruction.

This is laughable.

Neocons do believe that our society is decadent, and can be purified and redeemed only through a consuming war (or wars). This is one of their fundamental, esoteric beliefs, which they don’t share often with the general public. Their typical strategy is to glorify American “exceptionalism,” its “universal values,” and its “mission” to the world. Sometimes, though, their absolute contempt for America shines through.

I grow tired of how these idiots assume massive military spending is synonymous with a powerful military. Never mind that most of that spending is Keynsian pump-priming thrown away on high-tech boondoggles that fail to improve – and often erode – fighting ability. With a defence sector as corrupted by crony capitalism as America’s, lacking zee vill to fight is not the problem. Competency would be more useful. Wars of conquest can’t be won with super-expensive missiles while your ground troops have to buy their own armor and your leaders try to run an occupation with National Freakin’ Guardsmen.

Which is a good thing.

I understand we need to take a principled pro-democracy stand. But we shouldn’t blind ourselves to the fact that undemocratic instiutions are often on the side of the angels.

Cripes! Leave it to Jonah to make the st00pidest statement on any subject. I’d like to see him list *one* example! Just. One. Really, and taker yer time, Jonah, baybee–I have all the time in the world.

As opposed to the skill set provided by sitting on Conrad Black’s knee like Ganymede for the past decade.

Well, thanks, and I’m glad you liked them (they were fun to write), but I dunno if I’ll do anything like that again for a while. I just have so many irons in the fire. Main ambition is working on wingnut all-stars series, which are incredibly hard to write because there is just so much material to arrange.

What a lovely phrase.

Love your writing, Retardo. When are you gonna do more of your irreverent biographies of US Presidents?