Comments on: Al Megrahi up close and personal https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122423 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:13:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122423 Shame/Honor cultures tend to pretend that if people don’t know something, that it never happened. Take the blue on blue incident with Tillman in Afghanistan.

]]> By: Jamie https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122398 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:22:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122398 What’s the bit about a mess of pottage? And that’s the interpretation that what Scotland has done here is smart. The stupid option is that they did it to “be nice.” WOW.

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122287 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:04:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122287 AVI, count the Japanese in that same group.

I was visiting friends in Japan who, on hearing that I’d been to Hiroshima, a bit sanctimoniously asked me how I felt about it.*

I indicated I regretted its necessity, and mentioned that I’d also visited Nanjing. No reaction. You know, Nanjing, as in “Rape of?” Blank looks.

They’d never heard of the Rape of Nanjing.

*(No problem here; my father was in the 4th Marine Division, scheduled to land on the Japanese home islands, and after having participated in the invasions of Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima, he had no illusions about what invading Japan would entail).

]]> By: Assistant Village Idiot https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122284 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:23:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122284 armchair – it is disheartening to learn what Europeans know and don’t know about the history of the last sixty years. While we are often told how poorly American students do in a dozen subjects compared to European students, and Jay Leno has certainly illustrated how ill-informed Americans can be, educated Europeans have stunning gaps in their knowledge. They have a very effective form of censorship known as “just not ever bringing certain things up.” It is similar to our own liberal/elite/journalism/arts & humanities echo chamber, but runs much deeper.

]]> By: Scottie https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122283 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:12:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122283 Thomass,

I can’t help it, but every time I hear about Panetta all I can envision is Pié±ata!

😀

]]> By: armchair pessimist https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122280 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:18:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122280 I’ve been following this story in the London Telegraph which is hardly a screaming lefty rag. The comments are sobering. Overwhelmingly, we’re the baddies: The guy’s innocent. We’re bullying Scotland. We support terrorism (donations to the IRA), so we’re hypocrites. We torture and hang people all the time, so we’re even bigger hypocrites. We shot down that Iranian airliner and even gave the captain of the destroyer who blew it out of the air a medal. Again, it’s not the paper saying these things, it’s Brits writing in.

A few are take a more more worldly view which is the probably right one. Brown swapped a half-dead Arab for lucrative oil and gas deals with Libya. I suspect that for all our sputtering and stage-indignation, so have we.

Heaven forbid that we drill for our own energy and tell the rest of the world to drop dead!

]]> By: Thomass https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122277 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:21:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122277 # Baklava Says:

“Sounds like what happens when one party doesn’t LISTEN ∅bama”

Still, people were wondering what distraction the Obama admin would try to get in the news Monday because of the deficit projects put out Friday afternoon. The Justice Department’s investigations of the Bush admin were the #1 choice…. and here it is. 🙂

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122276 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:20:10 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122276 Sorry, OT, but enlightening: Soviet Subversion of the Free World Press 8/9

]]> By: Baklava https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122275 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:56:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122275 There are more than just screaming senior citizens at town halls.

There are also screaming Panetta’s.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8398902

Sounds like what happens when one party doesn’t LISTEN ∅bama

]]> By: Thomass https://thenewneo.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122274 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:55:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/08/22/al-megrahi-up-close-and-personal/#comment-122274 On the permanent campaign meme…
Stories out today about Paneta being unhappy about Holder’s various interrogation investigations (new spin on getting an old distraction back in the news).

Had a front page story spun as news, in the local fish wrapper, because it involved ‘analysis’ about how the protests against socialized medicine have a racial theme under the surface.

In other news, the jokes about state run media are funny because of the element of the truth in them….

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