Comments on: Has The World Gone Mad? http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:14:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: kranza http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8112 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:56:13 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8112 Ah. Yeah, that's right, the CNN debate: http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=1205 http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Would+you+use+a+tactical+nuclear+weapons+to+stop+Iran+from+developing+a+nuclear+bomb Ah. Yeah, that’s right, the CNN debate:

http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=1205

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Would+you+use+a+tactical+nuclear+weapons+to+stop+Iran+from+developing+a+nuclear+bomb

]]> by: Daniel Larison http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8108 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:28:47 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8108 Someone can correct me if I don't recall this right, but my memory was that the majority of the current GOP field was unwilling to take a first-strike tactical nuke attack against Iran "off the table," and they said so at one of the televised debates. That is what I was referring to. Someone can correct me if I don’t recall this right, but my memory was that the majority of the current GOP field was unwilling to take a first-strike tactical nuke attack against Iran “off the table,” and they said so at one of the televised debates. That is what I was referring to.

]]> by: kranza http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8103 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:28:41 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8103 "There are other candidates out there today who are open to “pre-emptively” nuking other countries" Who? “There are other candidates out there today who are open to “pre-emptively” nuking other countries”

Who?

]]> by: Grumpy Old Man http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8102 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:38:58 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/11/14/has-the-world-gone-mad/#comment-8102 <blockquote>I’m inclined to think that Paul, who is not the most careful and prudent of speakers, is not an anti-Semite — because in a public career dating back 30 years he would likely have said something more explicit and unambiguous. Nor do I think he should be held personally responsible for the fact that he might be attracting extremist support from the neo-Nazi Right. He has not expressed their views and he is not his brother’s keeper.</blockquote> --J. Podhoretz Even JPod rejects this silly accusation, although he sneaks a bit of it in the back door by making an amalgam with America First, Henry Ford, and Father Coughlin. The case for interventionism and empire must be weak, because those who attack either tend to be labeled as disloyal, anti-semitic, or kooky. No one seems willing to explain why we need bases in South Korea, or Uzbekistan, whether it makes sense to extend the nuclear shield over, say, Estonia, on the front doorstep of the world's second nuclear power. Here's Grumpy's Law: <blockquote>The volume of calumny against a political viewpoint is inversely proportional to the quality of the arguments against it.</blockquote>

I’m inclined to think that Paul, who is not the most careful and prudent of speakers, is not an anti-Semite — because in a public career dating back 30 years he would likely have said something more explicit and unambiguous. Nor do I think he should be held personally responsible for the fact that he might be attracting extremist support from the neo-Nazi Right. He has not expressed their views and he is not his brother’s keeper.

–J. Podhoretz

Even JPod rejects this silly accusation, although he sneaks a bit of it in the back door by making an amalgam with America First, Henry Ford, and Father Coughlin.

The case for interventionism and empire must be weak, because those who attack either tend to be labeled as disloyal, anti-semitic, or kooky. No one seems willing to explain why we need bases in South Korea, or Uzbekistan, whether it makes sense to extend the nuclear shield over, say, Estonia, on the front doorstep of the world’s second nuclear power.

Here’s Grumpy’s Law:

The volume of calumny against a political viewpoint is inversely proportional to the quality of the arguments against it.

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