Comments on: Basra: Iraqi Tet? https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63387 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:12:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63387 But Rich is almost breathtaking in his arrogant assumption that he knows the full story of Basra when he cannot at this point

I am sure, Neo, that even if Rich accepted that he does not know the whole story, he also comprehends that he has the power and will to make it the whole story. Regardless of who has to get killed doing it. Such is the state of tribalism in American politics, where people hold ultimate loyalty, not to an America that has buttered their bread and protected their hides and progeny, but to certain ideological groups inside America that promise the Heavens to those that can get the dirty work of killing true American allies done.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63386 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:09:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63386 A couple of background data concerning military and political conclusions concerning Basra collected here.

http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/maliki-vs-sadr-vs-armchair-observers/

]]> By: Mrs Whatsit https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63374 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:34:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63374 Matt, I believe it’s a reference to 1972, when Nixon defeated McGovern in a landslide, and Pauline Kael is supposed to have said something like “How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him.”

]]> By: Matt https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63368 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:42:04 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63368 I know the writing of Pauline Kael quite well. But what is a Pauline Kael bubble? Does it mean someone who is a critic but not in the real world – or something similar to that?

]]> By: harry McHitlerburtonstein the Extremist https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63366 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:23:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63366 Im sorry, I meant to say

“none of what you brought up matters”

um, for the reasons I stated.

]]> By: harry McHitlerburtonstein the Extremist https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63365 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:17:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63365 Sergey, Im affraid you’re missing the point. None of you brought up matters. Basra is Tet just because they say so.

]]> By: Bugs https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63337 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:16:05 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63337 I know I’m stupid. The trick is hiding it from everyone else.

How am I doing so far?

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63336 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:00:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63336 There is a good article on the topic in National Review on line. An exerpt:
“http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTk5MTE1YmI0
NzQyMjQzYWNjY2RlYmVhZjk4YzlhODI=”
Tet was launched by the enemy and Basra was initiated by the government; Tet was nationwide and this was subregional; Tet was an attempt by the Communists to foment a people’s uprising to overthrow the South Vietnamese government and in Basra the enemy was at best seeking to defend their local criminal enterprises.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63334 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:34:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63334 John Russell: In order to do that they’d have to know something about military history.

]]> By: Tom https://thenewneo.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63330 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:38:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/04/07/basra-iraqi-tet/#comment-63330 A friend of mine is fond of pointing out that “Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid”, but malign people surely know they’re malign. Frank Rich and his ilk are both.

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