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2010-05-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-11 07:03|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 A shining example of why Newsweek is going broke. There is so much wrong with this that even the lefties can see the faults.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-05-11 10:31|| 2010-05-11 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 He co authored a book called "the wise men". It's a look at the early years of this century through Vietnam.It follows men who advised presidential power for the USA at critical times. very interesting........

Posted by 746 2010-05-11 11:07|| 2010-05-11 11:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Is this the same Newsweek that might close down if it doen't find a buyer?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-05-11 11:31|| 2010-05-11 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd like to read an MSM article on why the Best and the Brightest can't be trusted to lead.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-11 12:44|| 2010-05-11 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I did find this little tidbit:

The U.S. Navy had defeated a Spanish fleet at Manila Bay, and now the Americans were unintentional occupiers of a country that President McKinley said he could barely find on a map. The fighting in the Philippines dragged on for four more years and cost 4,000 men, roughly the same number we have lost so far in Iraq. There were atrocities on both sides in the long-forgotten counterinsurgency against the Filipinos, and for the first time Americans used an interrogation method called waterboarding.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-11 13:06|| 2010-05-11 13:06|| Front Page Top

#6 there was a feeling that we hadn't finished the job of getting rid of Saddam HusseinI know I felt it.

I had a liberal friend tell me once that the senior Bush failed for not toppling Saddam in 1991. I informed him it wasn't part of the UN mandate, and he shut right up!

Posted by Bobby 2010-05-11 13:15|| 2010-05-11 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 The Wise Men by Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson is indeed an excellent book-- fair, thorough, lively and well-written. Evan Thomas would have been better off if he'd stayed out of the news business and stuck to writing history. I suspect that the end of Newsweek will serve to convince wirters of his talent to stay away from reporting-- where their biases are blatant but their writing's not strident enough to satisfy blog-tribalists' need for smirks 'n' sneers in short, minute-by-minute blasts-- and stick to very long analytical pieces and history.

Slow food prepared and consumed over hours vs. fast food in styrofoam consumed in a few seconds. Call it Slow Media, and charge for it.

Posted by lex 2010-05-11 15:12|| 2010-05-11 15:12|| Front Page Top

#8 gorb, it took longer than that. The Spanish had a habit of claiming territory they had a presence in rather than control of. When they transferred the Philippines, they failed to mention that little technicality and America found itself in a second front in the southern islands with a second war to end slavery [and piracy] by the Muslims [Moros].

Jolo, 1 - 24 May 1905 and 6 - 8 March 1906 and 11 - 15 June 1913. In May 1905, March 1906, and June 1913, Regulars had to cope with disorders too extensive to be handled by the local constabulary and Philippine Scouts on the island of Jolo, a Moro stronghold. During May 1905 Pala and some of his followers were killed; the remainder, gathered in a volcanic crater, surrendered to American forces. On March 6, 7, and 8, 1906 the battle of Bud Dajo was fought to a successful conclusion by Regulars and in mid-June 1913 Moros at Bagsac were whipped.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-11 15:21|| 2010-05-11 15:21|| Front Page Top

#9 The Spanish had a habit of claiming territory they had a presence in rather than control of.

Sort of like the mooselimbs? Kind of like my little dog. Every time he p!sses on a firehydrant, it is.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-11 17:37|| 2010-05-11 17:37|| Front Page Top

#10 JohnQC, your little dog is just exchanging pee-mail with the others. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2010-05-11 20:16|| 2010-05-11 20:16|| Front Page Top

#11 ISOLATIONISTS/MINIMALISTS-VS-MANIFEST DESTINY.

There were influential, POLITICAL- + ECON-POWERFUL elements in US GOVT-SOCIETY whom didn't favor the new US Republic to expand towards the MIDWEST, towards the ROCKIES + WEST COAST, RIO GRANDE, LET ALONE INTO THE PACIFIC + CARIBBEAN, ETC. 'TWAS NO DIFFERENT BEFORE, AFTER THE SPANISH-AMER WAR = "SPLENDID LITTLE WAR" OR EVEN WORLD WAR ONE.

ALso, IIRC SPAIN was offic the World's de facto #2 after VICTORIANA = VICTORIAN BRITAIN/BRIT EMPIRE, wid a EURO-AGGRESSIVE BISMARCK-LED IMPERIAL GERMANY as new #3 after former #3 FRANCE'S DEFEAT in the FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR [Napoleon III]. Britain gener stayed #1 up to WW2 despite gradually devol towards geopol weakness, espec after the bloodshed of WW1, Rise of Bolshevism, + 1929 Wall Street Crash [Great Depression = Worldwide]. Post-1918 the US was #2 until the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930's.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-11 21:26|| 2010-05-11 21:26|| Front Page Top

#12 lotp: I noticed I didn't use preview and what I said was a little botched--preview is your friend. All along I thought the little Mountain Cur was marking his boundaries. Could be that is what the pee-mail says. Dogs are interesting critters. Love em. :)

If people are not willing to fight wars, they will have to accept living under tyranny.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-11 22:40|| 2010-05-11 22:40|| Front Page Top

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