And I had to say: True fact, IOZ. True fucking fact.

[Quickly consults Wikipedia]. No, EOKA were anti-commie, and assassinated quite a few Cypriot socialists — this fits in better with the not-terrorist Good-guy argument. But one of the people killed by EOKA had a young daughter, who much later became the Frau Doktorin Penny, so I am biassed against them.

I was all prepared for some argumentative sod to point out that Krauthammer’s claim was still valid because these pre-1962 groups were not “international”. I would then point out in a flurry of pedantry that EOKA was international since some of its funds and weapons came from the Greek government. However…

yeah but see, it was 44 years ago, so terrorism wasn’t modern… because it was 44 years ago!
Advantage, Krauthammer!!!

– I’m out of my league.

As opposed to post-2000, when terrorist attacks are achieved with …. box cutters.

Not knowing the source of CK’s disability, I always wonder if he’s not overcompensating somehow.

Besides hat, exactly how is a psychologist qualified to be a top tier Rightwing pundit again? Oh, yeah, the precedent was set by Cal Thomas who is qualified to do exactly nothing, except develop a Quality turkey neck wattle in his dotage years.

yeah but see, it was 44 years ago, so terrorism wasn’t modern… because it was 44 years ago!

Advantage, Krauthammer!!!

And let’s face it: CK isn’t an isolated ignoramus in the wingnut ranks. Look at the Doughy Pantload: his qualifications for punditry (including LA Times) are…what, exactly?

Irgun? The Stern Gang? EOKA? Presumably not “international terrorism” since they did not involve US citizens being menaced by swarthy people.

If an old broken down marcom geek knows more about the extant political situation in Northeast Asia than a well known published pundit, it says a great deal about who’s getting published in this country…

And what followed was my comment directly above. BRING BACK TEH PREVIEW BUTTON!! What do you guys think this is, World O’Crap?!?

Honestly, mikey, I’d rather read something by you than a screed by Krautmallet any effing day. Really, really. Hell, it could be about what you had for dinner last night, or your last satisfying BM, and I guarantee that it’d be scads better that any of the tripe CK peddles. I’d be willing to bet money on that!

What happened to the preview button?

I dunno, Travis… you’re the one who works in these salt mines. Why don’t you tell us?

Meow meow waterboard meow.

Sorry pal. I don’t know another solution. Sure, this one might not work. Just what the HELL are YOU advocating? You vote for them, they happily devour your children and your pets. You vote Dem, maybe, you got a chance. Maybe not. What’s the choice again?

mikey

The funny thing about people like Kraut Hammer: if someone (say, Al Qaeda) were to premptively nuke US; the rightous indignation they would sing form on high of how insane these evil nuke people are, and how dare they even contimplate using such terrible weaponry, yadda yadda yadda. Irony is dead upon them.
Wasn’t the whole point of invading Iraq to prevent people from using nukes evar? (well, no, but let’s keep in the Land of Make Believe, Henrietta)

OK, am I the only one chomping at the SN bit the last few days? What with that squeakily pornographic train wreck between annie and differentbrad over at the Ruppert thread and the really lame Gary posts, I’m feeling a bit antsy for more substantive talk here. The GOP sex scandals are dropping off the trees and — oh yeah — they gutted habeas corpus just a coupla weeks ago. Hello? There’s an election coming up, dammit!

So do any of you read IOZ? Just discovered him recently (I’m probably very late to the game) but here’s something he’s got up today:

Democratic victory is not going to rescue America from America. One need only listen to the candidates grasp at the same bread-and-butter pieties of Patriotism, Security, and Constitution to know that. “Tax relief for the middle class” doesn’t sell me. I am not an incrementalist. “Tougher and smarter on security” sells me even less. Why should I waste my beautiful mind, as Bar Bush put it, on the selection of the less egregious users of euphemism, when I know already that they will roll on issues of significance and spend their time hawking bastardized medical subsidies and pledging to keep social security as it is, was, and ever shall be. I haven’t heard a Democrat mention our habeasless nation in weeks; it slipped from their minds as quickly as it slipped from the minds of the public upon receipt of that great gift: knoweldge that Mark Foley may well have slipped something else somewhere scandalous.

Democrats are as committed to the idolatrous War on Terror as Republicans. I know it comforts their rank-and-file supporters to believe that they subscribe to such euphonious fluff only insofar as it makes them appear “strong on defense,” just as it comforts them to believe that once they acquire office they will all uncross their fingers, unlock the doors of the gulag, put away the culture war, and go about the business of maintaining a Democratic majority, amen. They are soft, weak, foolish, pipsqueaks reaping nothing they sowed, but only the unavoidable devolution of the other passel of assholes now so gluttonously fatted at the government teat.

More of this available at http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/

Hope I didn’t befok any tags with this . . . (although I do now understand that preview is apparently for wimps).

So embracing MAD is the same thing as embracing a nuclear first strike.

All true. The Soviets also had a first strike option. And a retaliation option. Nobody’s saying that strategic deterance is rational, but historically, it DOES work.

mikey

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116078617716892213

The USA has always had a nuclear first-strike option as part of Mutually Assured Destruction. That way, the Soviets could never be sure when their tanks rolled into West Germany that we wouldn’t drop the Big One. Or Big Thousand.

So embracing MAD is the same thing as embracing a nuclear first strike.

Netvocates will have lost its contract.

The fact is that the infrastructure of the left is crumbling. Air America is bankrupt. George Soros has given up on his anti-Bush vandetta. Soon the leftist blogs will fall apart after another Republican victory in 2006.

You have to hand it to him, he’s doing a great impression of Baghdad Bob.