Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: bpors

bpors — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:49:54 +0000

I’m interested Barbara B

Having been a student of Iraq for thirty years, and having supported the invasion, are you starting to think all that study may have been wasted?

The Yanks are still doing aerial bombings of civilian cities after 4 years, and Bush is calling for more troops. And now that Zarqawi is gone, its all Iran’s fault.

I’d like to think if I studied something for thirty years I could pick a winner at the end of it.

Jimmy Carter says Israel has got some similarities to the Afrikaner oppression of blacks with their treatment of Palestinians. Here’s a prediction: it would be a disaster to invade Israel, hang the leaders and instal a majority Hamas government to rule over the Bedouins, Jews, and Palestinians. Its just a hunch I have.

I also think the left did not support South Africa, but did not call for an invasion with countless thousands to be slaughtered. But that doesn’t mean it supported apartheid. Neither did it with Iraq. I think your analogy is a bit wrong. The “antiwar left” have been watching Washington for decades. I don’t think there are any surprises with the Iraq invasion, except that it is even worse than predicted.

By: polluted skies

polluted skies — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:50:18 +0000

A Christopher Hitchens bit – just for Pavlovas Cat .

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_urbanities-steyn.html

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:58:50 +0000

Everyone:
I’ll annoy all of you with my version of an American Dream-Team:

Barack H. Obama [Pres], Hilary R Clinton [VP], John McCain[Defense], John Kerry[State], A Schwartznegger[Treasury], Gore[Reconstruction and Environment], Edwards[Space](why not?), ……. and Mori [Ambassador to Australia].

Enjoy!

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:47 +0000

Never mind Hillary, Barack and Al; Andy Murray, who has not dropped a set so far in the tournament, has just beaten Rafael Nadal in the first set, in a tiebreaker. Definitely worth a look.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:23:14 +0000

Come on Hilary; come on Barack!!

I’m going for Gore. Bring him on in.

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:31:53 +0000

j-p-z:
Yeah. Oversimplified. I’m lucky because I know that when the current madness is over there’ll be a lot of Yanks – and truly devout Christians amongst them – who will work hard to put The Great Republic back together again. Come on Hilary; come on Barack!!

And, wishing I had a glass of the liquid handicrafts of those fine Hillbilly folk with which to do it, I wish you “Na Zdro’wie!!” too.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:01:42 +0000

Hey All At Saturday Forum,

hell I’m late and it’s Monday. Here was me thinking I’d do a weekly Sat. forum thing. Next week, I sort of promise, my sort of’s being better than a politicians firm pre-eloral ones,

Tim.

By: anthony

anthony — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:59:46 +0000

Jo, surely you remember the Special’s classic?

Free Nelson Mandela
Free, Free, Free, Nelson Mandela
Free Nelson Mandela
Twenty-one years in captivity
Why can’t we invade with some RPGs

By: jo

jo — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:08:56 +0000

Katz, we’ve obviously all erased from our memories that 101st airborne assault on pretoria and the rescue of nelson mandela from robben island by US special forces.

Dr Cat says: more yellow tank tops and hot, sweaty spainards inside them….(i’ll go with that).

By: Katz

Katz — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:06:56 +0000

What a load of tosh.

I opposed apartheid.

I would have been against the US invading South Africa in the cause of ending apartheid.

Not that was ever an option because for all their failings, the US presidents between 1948 and 1993 were at least grown-ups.