Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper

On Sun, 18 May 2025 19:18:09 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:38:55 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:52:50 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

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This may seem unlikely, but it really is the only way to end the
madness. Of course, we would also have to avoid falling to the madness
of Bernie, his friends, and the various high-prestige schools that
think supporting terrorists (verbally) and chanting anti-Semitic
slogans (and, in some cases, taking physical action related to
anti-Semitism) is something they should encourage.

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Nonsense on many levels.  Opposing Israeli actions in Gaza
is not in any way anti-semitism.

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Perhaps, but after the barbarity of 7/10/2023 - and barbarity
definitely is the appropriate word for their initial attack, Israel
could do a LOT worse before their outdid HAMAS.
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Some of the HAMAS were even talking about "finishing the job" in the
context of 1933-1945.

A long time ago (25+ years), /Smithsonian Magazine/ had an article by
a man who had driven cargo trucks in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.

He reported, finding in a bookshop, a biography of Saddam Hussein
titled /Saddam: the New Hitler/.

That /some/ (by no means all or even most) Arab muslims have only one
problem with Hitler -- that he didn't finish the job -- has been known
for quite some time.

Freedom of speech can be a bitch. But it either exists or it doesn't.

Taking action, however ... well, that's a different story. Depending
on what the action is, of course.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"