2:37 AM, June 20, 2006

East India Company – Halliburton

Opium – Oil

BP – Texaco

British Iraq – US Iraq

British Afghanistan – US Afghanistan

I spent a long time in sales, and “hate-filled mockery, laced with insult and misused epithets (such as your constant misuse of the term “racist”), and inform people that I am once again laughing at them” is not the way to win people to your side. It is a way to be pseudo-superior.

It isn’t their opinions that brand the trolls, it is their methods. Frankly, I found myself in agreement with them a number of times, but you have to remain in agreement not to be attacked. How sad.

Good post.

tequilamockingbird

The standards are not equal, the blame is all on the West, so the equivalency is a bit skewed. In this case, people believe the West’s violent actions and wars are worst than the Arab terroist’s, simply because they expect “better” of the West. We have to be “morally superior”, because we are “enlightened” and above the “Arab masses”. Or some such rot.

Gotta have clean hands you know, can’t get down and dirty with sleep deprivation or “torture” like the terroists use, we are better than the terroists. That is their primarily reasoning for any moral equivalency, in order to compare our actions and theirs in an equivalent manner, they have to handicap the Arabs and give the West moral and ethical standard props.

Perhaps it is because I don’t repetitively post hate-filled mockery, laced with insult and misused epithets (such as your constant misuse of the term “racist”), and inform people that I am once again laughing at them. Having spent a life time in higher ed, around people who either have strong opinions (faculty) or are developing them (students), I have learned to disagree with someone, listen to any response, and move on. You, on the other hand, have barged into a virtual room, screaming invective, shouting down dialogue, attempting to shut down the forum, and then you smugly state that they call you a troll because you disagree with them. Horse poop, they call you a troll because you are a virtual violent bully. You have some serious mental health problems.

BTW, your views have all the depth of a 20-year old student who has just realized that the world isn’t fair (and all that goes with that realization), but fails to carry their crystal-clear solutions to their logical conclusions, which are always worse than the present problems. You have slipped down the slope to the depths of moral equivalency, with no regard for motivation.

You’re original post on this thread was not troll-like. In fact this neo-con might even agree with most of it, but I won’t go into it with you as this troll thing still isn’t resolved and this thread’s about done, plus you’ve gotten a bit emotional, but if you wanted to know …