Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Tyler Durden The US was in Vietnam trying to fight their way up. So it would have been pretty evident to anyone watching that the US was trying to undermine the PRC. James A. Donald: You live in a world of delusion. Your dates are all wrong, your events are all fiction.

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on the Election

2004-10-22 Thread Bill Stewart
A lot of columnists are trying to look fair and balanced in their election coverage, expressing their biases opinions while claiming to be reasonable; I'm most recently mad at Safire for this. So it's nice to be able to recommend a column by someone who's making no pretense of balance, the good

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-22 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: On 21 Oct 2004 at 13:41, Sunder wrote: No you imbecile, I'm telling no one anything, other than you to get a clue. Where did I tell people who are under attack to suck it up? When you tell us it is horrible to lock up in Gautenamo people who

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-22 Thread Will Morton
James A. Donald wrote: How could the US have given him support, short of violent means, such as bombing Tehran, which he was reluctant to accept? Money. Push it through your favourite UN department. Schools and hospitals == goodwill. You have this back to front. Khatami was

Re: Are new passports [an] identity-theft risk?

2004-10-22 Thread Ian Grigg
R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41030 An engineer and RFID expert with Intel claims there is little danger of unauthorized people reading the new passports. Roy Want told the newssite: It is actually quite hard to read RFID at a distance,

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 21 Oct 2004 at 13:41, Sunder wrote: No you imbecile, I'm telling no one anything, other than you to get a clue. Where did I tell people who are under attack to suck it up? When you tell us it is horrible to lock up in Gautenamo people who show every sign of trying to kill us ,

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 21 Oct 2004 at 18:33, Will Morton wrote: The US missed a real trick when Khatami got into power in 1997; he had a huge swell of popular support behind him, and with significant US backing he could probably have outmaneuvered the conservatives and made some real changes. A truly

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: But Khatami was knackered shortly after being elected, so any aid would be aiding the terrorists. We saw how well that worked in Fallujah and Sadr city. June 2001: Khatami re-elected A few months or weeks thereafter, Khatami knackered. Will Morton

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: We are under attack, and you are telling us to suck it up. J.A. Terranson No. We are under attack by those DEFENDING THEMSELVES. All of the terrorists came from countries that were beneficiaries of an immense amount of US help. Saudi Arabia was certainly not

Re: James A. Donald's insanity

2004-10-22 Thread Sunder
Where did I write to you that it's horrible thing to lock people up in Gitmo, or that we (whomever that is) deserve to be attacked? Show me the email, with headers that says such a thing. Oh, wait, you can't, because I never wrote such. Let's see, so you've got lots of people questioning

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-22 Thread Will Morton
James A. Donald wrote: But Khatami was knackered shortly after being elected, so any aid would be aiding the terrorists. We saw how well that worked in Fallujah and Sadr city. snip June 2001: Khatami re-elected A few months or weeks thereafter, Khatami knackered. Hmm.

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-22 Thread John Kelsey
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 19, 2004 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity) .. In developing markets the US track record is terrible. The more we interfere and set up puppet governments and petty

Re: Seld-defeating US foreign policy

2004-10-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: How could the US have given him support, short of violent means, such as bombing Tehran, which he was reluctant to accept? Will Morton Money. Push it through your favourite UN department. Schools and hospitals == goodwill. But Khatami was

Re: James A. Donald's insanity

2004-10-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Sunder wrote... Come on, come on, out with it, say it, say it... That's right! *Ding* you're reality challenged. Well, perhaps, but Mr Donaldson's brain has been turned into a host/vector for a very powerful set of memes. In a sense, one can't blame him: He has an answer for everything, and

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-22 Thread John Kelsey
From: James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 20, 2004 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Airport insanity Lots of murderous terrorists have been released from Guatanamo, and in the nearly all cases the most serious of their complaints make it sound like a beach

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-22 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, yes there are counterexamples I guess. The kind of retardation I'm talking about seems to happen when the influence in through covert, destabilising channels. Taiwan is a particularly odd example...it definitely has started forming a modern economy, but then again it had many decades of

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 22 Oct 2004 at 0:00, John Kelsey wrote: All but one of the comments I read about involved a lot of complaints about mistreatment, albeit often with the admission that Gitmo was still better than being in an Afghan prison. As a nitpick, though, it's not at all clear that most of