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2006-03-06 Iraq

Iraqi Sunnis now looking to the US for protection

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-03-06 01:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Arab logic is blame disguised as irony camouflaged as coherence masquerading as projection cloaked in cognitive dissonance.

Posted by .com 2006-03-06 02:20|| 2006-03-06 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Arabic mouth takes leave of any normal logic. Inside the fold of macho brotherhood of i-slam they deserve one another.

Posted by Duh! 2006-03-06 03:40|| 2006-03-06 03:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Death to the Great Satan---but not right now.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-06 04:29|| 2006-03-06 04:29|| Front Page Top

#4 .com - well said!

I'm going to keep that little formulation.

Normal concepts of irony, hypocrisy, and double-standards are grossly inadequate in dealing with the sort of nonsense we're hearing in the posted article.

It's in our, and the Iraqi Sunnis', best interest that we basically ignore almost everything they say. Stay focused on the few things we care about and let the local pathologies play themselves out.

Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2006-03-06 06:38|| 2006-03-06 06:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't forget boys, it is the LA Times....

Posted by Bobby 2006-03-06 06:51|| 2006-03-06 06:51|| Front Page Top

#6 From personal experience: Never underestimate the ability of Arabs to hold and vociferously advocate two opposing concepts at the same time.

Posted by Pappy 2006-03-06 11:23|| 2006-03-06 11:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Pappy, not unlike eating and s****ing simultaneously, eh?

Posted by Duh! 2006-03-06 12:40|| 2006-03-06 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The moment of bitter irony for the 52-year-old father of six is emblematic of a sharp shift in Iraqi opinion.

He calls it "bitter irony". We call it "poetic justice".

I can just hear this wanker now: "Hey, they're using our own tactics against us! Who do they think they are? What right do they have to do such a thing?"

Aren't people's heads supposed to explode when they do this? Isn't there some way we could arrange for it to happen?

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-06 12:41|| 2006-03-06 12:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Before the war, I recall reading an (overly optimistic) statement to the effect that the Sunni wouldn't be much trouble for US occupation troops. After all, the Sunni would need the US Army to protect them from the Shiites.

Looks like that prediction finally came true, about two years too late for the Sunni.

Idiots.

Posted by Pat Phillips 2006-03-06 13:14|| 2006-03-06 13:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Arab logic is blame disguised as irony camouflaged as coherence masquerading as projection cloaked in cognitive dissonance.

...with a C-4 cherry on top.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-03-06 13:29|| 2006-03-06 13:29|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL! eggcellent!

Posted by RD 2006-03-06 13:50|| 2006-03-06 13:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Hang on, .com, Ima still wrapping nested parentheses around the concept.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-03-06 18:56|| 2006-03-06 18:56|| Front Page Top

#13 AP - How about if I reverse the sequence:

Arab logic is classic cognitive dissonance perversely presented as peurile projection callowly confused with cogent coherence expressed as brutish barbaric blame.

Clearer? ;-)

Posted by .com 2006-03-06 19:20|| 2006-03-06 19:20|| Front Page Top

#14 "please hold, your call is important to us, except we're busy preparing to leave your area. Security will be provided by your Shiite neighbors, in fact, your call is being routed to the nearest militia unit right now. Thanks for holding...."

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-06 19:29|| 2006-03-06 19:29|| Front Page Top

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