It's interesting who is verboten and who is welcome on campus. Iranian president and nutcase of international repute Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Columbia University today. Larry Summers, who had the temerity to suggest that innate gender differences might explain the dearth of female scientists, won't be speaking at the University of California's regents meeting. The regents rescinded their invitation after professors demanded Summers be disinvited. Anti-American nutcases? You are welcome. Liberals harboring even one politically incorrect thought? There is the door.
Its little things like this that makes me sometimes not care if the ragheads take over the world. hell i can pray to a god 5 times a day,and take 5 wives and krank out little suiciders. just to see these 2faced anti-US, homo loving LIBS git the danny peale treatment!
They do eat their own, don't they?!
Interesting that the very things that libs love and support are the first things that would be squashed and evaporate under the regimes whose leaders they revere and worship.
They are truly a stupid class of people. Or are they Intellectual Morons?
I truly don't get it. A white American male says something as innocuous as what Summers did, and he's black-balled. But this Iranian male says women should be veiled head to toe, stay at home unless they have the permission of their husband or, if unmarried, a male relative, etc. etc., and it's all good. They simply can't get past the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That is just where their "thinking" stops in this case.
I just think that most libs are immature contrarians. Probably left over from the days where protest for the sake of protest was fab.
All you need to know about modern day liberalism is to observe how it's completely warped the Democrat Party. General Patraeus, a true American patriot, reports before a congressional committee and the Democrats essentially call him a liar. But Nancy Pelosi and her gang of pinkos make an inappropriate trip to a rogue terrorist state to talk to the leader of a country that sponsors and sanctions that philosophy. They kiss Assad's ring and stand agog as he tells them the lies they want to hear.
It's true: liberalism is a mental disorder.
ASDF,
No need to overdo Petraeus. I can assume he is a good man and a patriot but he only reported exactly what the WH wanted him to report. Did you actually take a look at the charts he provided? They were complete nonsense. I would argue that w/e his motives and character he in fact did a disservice to his men by giving the WH the cover they wanted to prolong this insane war.
Do you also consider the many retired generals who have been opposed to this war and are saying it is unwinnable good American Patriots too? I have no problem w/ assuming that the men leading our Armed Forces, who have made a career of it are good and patriotic, but is that assumption really at issue or carry much force? I for one find it troubling that generals have to retire to disavow the mistakes forced on their army by the WH and Pentagon. At least MacArthur gave Truman such grief that he sacked him. So I am not too convinced of those retired generals personal courage or patriotism, yet, in the end it just doesn't matter. If in fact this war was unjust, and so ill-conceived as to be interminable and unwinnable (and I think it clearly is) then none of the leadership of the Armed Forces is exempt from sharing the blame of having failed to protect the lives of their men from abuse by a WH and Pentagon gone war mad. W/e we want to assume about the personal integrity or patriot bona fides of any of these generals including Petraeus, I believe they screwed up and he has provided Bush the political cover to continue the mistake.
As for Pelosi, et. al. I completely agree w/ you. In fact, why the flippin hell is any REPRESENTATIVE (maybe I could see an occasional exception for a senator) EVER taking paid official or unofficial junkets to foreign countries. That shows how unmoored we are from our Constitution and ideal of a limited govt. These clowns are in both parties though, they play by rules they create for themselves and leave partisans annoyed that they visited Assad rather than "wtf were they doing out of the country?"
Ahmadinejad won election in 2005 as a populist demagogue riding a wave of Bush/Neocon-Iraq invasion inspired anti-Americanism. Bush in a way created him and they oddly sort of need each other since neither are very popular anymore. The Iranian goof does not have much support from the Ayatollahs, and despite how "conservatives" here think we are already at war w/ Iran, it is the Ayatollah's that command the Iranian Army and ultimately determine the governments policies. And those old guys have repeatedly demonstrated over the last couple of decades that their priority is 1) the integrity and security of their nation (including their attempted iron grip on power over it) and 2) trying to become a big player in their region.
Well, by defeating their two biggest rival neighbors (literally bordering them) in Afghanistan and Iraq, uh, we have made them a bigger regional power than they ever could have become on their own. Sigh. I have a limited perspective to be sure but I cannot make heads or tails of the logic behind our policies and decisions in the ME. Can't we just actually go after the terrorist organizations and defend ourselves from them here?
I could have used any prominent demonstratively patriotic American as an example to juxtapose how the Democrats treat their own and how they treat leaders of regimes that sponsor and promote terrorism. The recent treatment that Patraeus received from the left just made him a good candidate.
Regardless of who it might be, it just shows how the Dems love the double standard and (in large part because of BDS) dislike their own country.
And, yes, I would consider other generals who do not agree with Petraeus or GW to be patriots as well. Point is, you don't have to agree with everything our government does to be a patriot. But when you court and cajole those who would have us destroyed if they could that, in my opinion, is stepping over the line. And Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Durbin, Schumer, take you pick, do this on a regular basis.
Agree.
I agree about the Dems pathetic behaviour you describe. They are certainly horrible.
