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2007-03-13 Iraq

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Posted by ryuge 2007-03-13 07:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I like that analogy. Baghdad as Birmingham would really stick in the craw of some of the left. Comparing al-Qaeda to the KKK, also brings out the weird parallels with the old South and the "new democrats", along with the defenses used by the "Dixiecrats" of the segregationist status quo.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-13 11:20|| 2007-03-13 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Well said, and so long overdue. The moral component of this war - so huge, so dramatic, perhaps as stark as ANY conflict the US has ever touched - is, naturally, completely disregarded.

A few hours of high-jinks by idiots at Abu - end of the Planet Earth as we know it. Endless, endless barbaric slaughter of the most horrific sort by the enemy against kids and elders and everyone else - tumbleweeds blowing down the street, chirping crickets.

So many "educated" Americans have perfectly mastered the sort of ignorant, lazy, disengaged moral emptiness of most Europeans, probably for similar reasons (no involvement in the tougher tasks of protecting/promoting freedom and decency). My alienation from this group of my fellow Americans is near complete. When I returned from Baghdad I anticipated this, but the gulf is still a shocking and depressing thing that colors everything for me now.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-13 12:13|| 2007-03-13 12:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Be patient with it and you shall be rewarded.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-03-13 17:23|| 2007-03-13 17:23|| Front Page Top

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