tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post114521159365767877..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Bush to Iran: Don't You Wish We Had Been Disarmed?gcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-9950448512864323052008-12-22T20:48:00.000-05:002008-12-22T20:48:00.000-05:00NosTale money<A HREF="http://www.gameim.com/product/NosTale_gold.html/" REL="nofollow">NosTale money</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-52760196159394254362007-09-09T23:01:00.000-04:002007-09-09T23:01:00.000-04:00Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will ...Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will bookmark!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-69405857685732941222007-09-04T08:54:00.000-04:002007-09-04T08:54:00.000-04:00Very interesting site. Blog is very good. I am hap...Very interesting site. Blog is very good. I am happy that I think the same!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-28076466799949597812007-08-28T10:45:00.000-04:002007-08-28T10:45:00.000-04:00Thank You! Very interesting article. Do you can wr...Thank You! Very interesting article. Do you can write anything else about it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-66940471900652064402007-08-18T09:26:00.001-04:002007-08-18T09:26:00.001-04:00Thanks for interesting article.Thanks for interesting article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-13112768327966992382007-08-18T09:26:00.000-04:002007-08-18T09:26:00.000-04:00Nice Blog!Nice Blog!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-45017479574627099992007-08-18T03:32:00.000-04:002007-08-18T03:32:00.000-04:00Great article! Thanks.Great article! Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-1146757938036904402006-05-04T11:52:00.000-04:002006-05-04T11:52:00.000-04:00I suppose that reasonable people could disagree ab...I suppose that reasonable people could disagree about how alarming the news must be before one does something -- and how late is too late, and how can we be sure we're neither too late nor too early.<BR/><BR/>Prudence is a good thing.<BR/><BR/>Ascribing evil stupidity to those who arrive at a prudential judgment different from one's own is . . . (fill in the blank).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-1145597039068004632006-04-21T01:23:00.000-04:002006-04-21T01:23:00.000-04:00Hello, Michael, nice to see you drop in.However, I...Hello, Michael, nice to see you drop in.<BR/><BR/>However, I don't think your argument makes any sense. I see this as a very clsoe analogy: I notice that Bill down the street from me has been working out a lot and really building up his arms. I don't like Bill much -- for instance, I regard him as a bigot and suspect he gives money to David Duke. Although he <EM>says</EM> he is lifting just for the exercise, I think there's a chance he <EM>might</EM> pop me in the kisser one day. Since I know I'm very prone to violence, I figure my response would probably be to riddle him full of bullets.<BR/><BR/>Therefore, to <EM>save</EM> him from that fate, I should go and chop off his arms right now! I'd be doing him a favor!gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-1145427561004066292006-04-19T02:19:00.000-04:002006-04-19T02:19:00.000-04:00To the charge by "anonymous" of coyness I plead No...To the charge by "anonymous" of coyness I plead Not Guilty. I was actually thinking of the US, not of Israel.<BR/><BR/>But let us think this through, despite his error. <BR/><BR/>If I believe, reasonably, in good faith, for solid reasons, and on good evidence, that the fella across the street is about to torch my house while my family is asleep, and there is (perhaps we are in Libertopia) no outside agency which can stop him in time, then chances are pretty good that after the deed, I will be less than scrupulous about retaliation. I'm sure that that would show I suffered from bad toilet training and inadequate drilling in Judith Martin, but there it is.<BR/><BR/>Now, if someone, knowing all this, could manage to take out just the folks who will actually execute the attack on my family, and do so in time, would it not be fair to say that the other residents of that house had been saved from death by this intervention?<BR/><BR/>I'm hardly saying it would be pretty, or admirable, or in accord with the Gospels. I'm only saying that, in my judgment, it would be <I>accurate</I> to say that the pre-emptive act did in fact save the lives of the more-or-less innocent bystanders.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-1145290438025368072006-04-17T12:13:00.000-04:002006-04-17T12:13:00.000-04:00The above combines stupidity and evil in startling...The above combines stupidity and evil in startling proportions! If "Nation A" is barbaric enough to try to wipe out the entire Iranian population in retaliation for a first strike, then couldn't we solve this problem just as well by a first strike at "Nation A"? Especially considering that "Nation A" represents the only <EM>real</EM> threat of executing a first strike in the Mideast, and the odds the Iran would do so are about a zillion-to-one?! ("Nation A" is, of course, this poster's coy name for Israel.)<BR/><BR/>I suppose we have to "save" China, India, and Pakistan with US first strikes as well. After all, China <EM>might</EM> pull a first strike on Russia, and then get wiped out, or India on China, or Pakistan on India. Really, every nuclear power but America needs to be saved by a nice, friendly, first strike, doesn't it? And then we can send the mutant survivors the idiotic "reasoning" above to explain how it was all from the love in our hearts!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-1145246602137045482006-04-17T00:03:00.000-04:002006-04-17T00:03:00.000-04:00If Iran actually develops a nuclear weapon -- for ...If Iran actually develops a nuclear weapon -- for delivery by humongous jet or attache case -- and uses it within Nation A, we may anticipate that the survivors in A will bend every effort to wipe Iran off the map, leaving only a glow visible from Mars. It is unlikely that they will be interested in scrupulously distinguishing between those actively involved in that act, and the "innocent bystanders" (scare quotes because, as I'm sure you believe, inaction by those oppressed is much like complicity -- mitigated only by the foreseeable costs of direct, useful action).<BR/><BR/>Preventing Iran from producing that weapon would, yes, save Iran. Waiting for the weapon to be deployed, on the other hand, would result in the destruction of Iran. Unless, of course, the weapon had succeeded in obliterating the victim. From the POV of the probable victim population, I don't have a hard time choosing here. That preventing Iran from finishing the work would issue in the survival of a great many Iranians (to say nothing of Iranian society and institutions) is a bonus, but not a trivial bonus. Especially to those Iranians who, after all is done, have not been wiped out by the foreseeable retaliation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com