Comments on: Sleeping with Saddam, the lesser enemy?: realpolitik vs. the neocon agenda https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Don https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20759 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:57:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20759 Is the Joe Wilson in the quote Valerie Plame’s husband? That’d be weird.

]]> By: Isaiah Hunahun https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20758 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:37:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20758 Add this one to “Best Of” please

]]> By: TalkinKamel https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20757 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:30:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20757 Yes, and kill as many Americans, as were killed at Waco, nobody cares either.

Democrats being in power does seem to be the exclusion factor.

]]> By: Ymar https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20685 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:09:05 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20685 The exclusion factor, Talkin, is when the Democrats are in power. Then America is powerful, righteous, and Smooth. Jail as many Americans in re-location camps, nobody cares.

]]> By: TalkinKamel https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20756 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:12:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20756 Thanks, Ymar.

Whether Dave meant his #4 to actually qualify as #2, id, the sad fact is, given the world as it is today, that’s essentially what it would add up to—inaction.

Of course, if America doesn’t topple dictators this = WRONG! If America does topple dictators, however, this also is WRONG, since they’re embarking on a path of militaristic conquest. If actually do topple a dictator, it’s WRONG because they didn’t do it soon enough—or it’s WRONG because the dictator was a Marxist—or because he was once our ally, ten years or so ago.

Just remember: for the left, America is always WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

]]> By: Warren https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20755 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:38:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20755 One problem the Left has is that they have to see Iraq and it’s issues as a way of toppling Bush and the Republicans. For those further Left, Iraq is a tool for toppling the entire USA. As a result, the Left sometimes can’t see Iraq for what it is.

This leads the Left to adopt some nonsensical positions; “Let the sanctions work”, “The Sanctions are killing half a million Iraqi Children”, “The US created Saddam so should leave him in power”.

The deeper problem is that, with the Soviet Union down and Marxism discredited, the Left has few unifying principles or common goals. With the Working Class believing in Capitalism, all the Left has is anti-Americanism and Gay Marriage. This is thin gruel compared to the meaty “Workers of the World Unite!”.

]]> By: Ymar https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20754 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:44:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20754 Btw, I heard it say that Lenin and his companions did one of those infiltration insurgencies in which they took over the government from the inside out. When they did their coup de tat, nobody could stop them because nobody had even realized that they were a danger.

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20753 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:55:14 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20753 I should add, that in Russian revolution so-called Bolsheviks were a VERY SMALL minority. There were less than 2000 of them in Petrograd in 1917, but they got upper hand by ruthless determination, total lack of self-restraint and readiness to any atrocity. And they toppled Interim Government of liberals and established tyranny over 150 000 000 strong population which could not even understand their ideology. So militant ideology of small group of crazy fanatics IS, indeed, a serious threat to any sick, gloomy society and destabilized government.

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20752 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:09:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20752 Russia has 20 mln of Muslims of its own. Most of them are asimilated or integrated, but potential of their radicalization is fearsome, especially in North Caucasia. This was the main headache for Russian authorities, especially after several major terrorist attacks like Beslan. In most cases, this subversive activity is funded and supervised by foreigners, Arabs like Abu Khamsa and other Al-Qaeda linked professionals. So by political considerations Russian authorities would back US in clampdown on Islamists, but probably not openly, because anti-American sentiments are widespread in population and in some circles of military and bureaucracy. General balance of forces in Kremlin is hard to assess, and it is rather fluid.

]]> By: Anonymous https://thenewneo.com/2007/01/18/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy/#comment-20751 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:01:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2007/01/sleeping-with-saddam-lesser-enemy.html#comment-20751 Dave the Rabbit, in regards to your post of 01.19.07 – 4:26 am :
you say “There is a fourth alternative, which is to stop supporting dictators everywhere.”

Are you SURE your #4 doesn’t actually qualify as #2 (inaction)?

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