Tantamount to a Declaration of War ?
The military of another sovereign nation, whether it's a nation one likes or dislikes (and I sure have NO positive feelings for the current Iran), is one of that nation's institutions. If one declares the military, or a part of it, a terrorist organization -- which for the playpen means enemy, means incarcerable, means to be fought at all costs, means to be eliminated -- isn't that tantamount to declaring the entire government terrorist? ...the entire country? Isn't that the first announcement of war against that country? Isn't that the way the bushbaby did it with Afghanistan (where Karzai yesterday questioned why the US is still bombing his country six years later) and later with Iraq (where Turkey now wants to get in on the game, this time against playpen Kurdish pets)? Wasn't it the bushbaby who last week said we should be worried about WWIII in connection with Iran? Is it possible he knows why? ...and that he's the reason? Is bushbaby war 3 on the way? BBW3
US imposes sweeping sanctions on Tehran Iran - Guardian Unlimited:
"The sanctions target the 125,000-strong Iranian revolutionary guard (IRG), one of the best-resourced parts of the country's military, with its own tanks and planes. It also owns hotels, oil companies and other businesses. The Bush administration went a step further with the IRG's elite Quds division, responsible for covert actions abroad, labelling it a terrorist organisation, the first time a state's military has been put on America's terrorist list."
For someone talking a lot about 'aufklarung' you seem to be particularly good at parroting the usual trite cliches, various regurgitated anti-Americanisms and leftwing pieties of an uncritical middle school student.
ReplyDeleteYou're German. Don't even pretend to think you can lecture the rest of the world on enlightenment when you were responsible for Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
Your prate about China is especially laughable, showing a complete ignorance of economics and Chinese economic history; while your current post is similarly empirics free in its attempt to portray Bush as somehow out of line with acceptable opinion. Before Bush warned of World War III if Iran gets nuclear weapons, Sarkozy was already warning that war could come with Iran back in September - BEFORE Bush.
And seeing that there is an extremist anti-semitic madman in power in Iran pursuing a nuclear program, this is not inconceivable. Being German, you know all about anti-semitic madmen pursuing atomic ambitions.
Your Fuhrer was one of them. The difference between you and Sarkozy/Bush is that they're not being a Neville Chamberlain about it. Silly kraut.
Wrong on all counts: I'm NOT German but American, therefore very critical of America when it betrays its ideals. Germans have learned what happens when you betray ideals. Aufklärung is written with a "ä", the Enlightenment is the lesson you missed in middle school. Les Lumières help me understand the darkness in the regions Sarkozy is piddling in. And the quote was from the very anti-American Guardian, but you can find the same in the New York Times.
ReplyDeleteI hope you and those who never see dangers in their own backyards will wake up before there are no yards left.
(Also sadly typical is that your name-calling was done "anonymously".)
ReplyDeleteSuch a liar. You're German. Admit it. Your English is poor and unidiomatic. It has a particularly Germanic awkwardness about it. Too many polysyllabic compound words in German addling your brain. Hence your poor grasp of English.
ReplyDeleteYou would deny it, because if I were German and had the shame of Auschwitz and Belsen as my national shame, I would deny I was German too. Such a shame.
Continuing lecturing to your betters on 'aufklarung'. It makes us laugh that such highminded ideals are debased in the service of a base and fashionable leftism and anti-Americanism. Moral exhibitionism from a dumb German ashamed of his national past can only be a grotesque exercise in sanctimonious piety.
As your blog is. Shame. You drew the exact wrong lesson from your past, Neville Chamberlainesque fool.
Dear Brother,
ReplyDeleteYou erred only in dignifying "anonymous" with a response. Ignorance never can be thwarted by intelligent thought or dialogue, but must of itself be ignored, with a prayer that God will forgive the fool his idiocy and protect the rest of the world from him.
(By the way, all your relatives in the States, including me, are doing well.)
Your American Sister
Right on, sis !
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