Comments on: Sorry, Charlie

By: JoeBuck

JoeBuck — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Ooh, will it be George Jong-il, Jeb Jong-Il, or Neil Jong-Il?

Cute, but Kim is his family name, and Jong-il is his given name. And in Korea (north and south), “Kim” makes “Smith” in English look like an unusual name.

By: frankly0

frankly0 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:03:40 +0000

Before we congratulate ourselves on how unlike we are to Krauthammer, maybe we should ask ourselves how much more enlightened is our new policy in Afghanistan.

What is throwing tens of thousands of additional troops into Afghanistan really going to achieve in terms of combatting terrorism? What is the policy but another attempt for us — or more precisely, for Obama — to pose at being “tough”, on the neverending theory that demonstrating “toughness” somehow makes our evildoing enemy quiver into an undifferentiated puddle?

By: Propagandee

Propagandee — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:24:00 +0000

I think what’s upsetting Krauthammer so much is that because we allowed the missile to prove its failed design, it significantly weakens the neocons’ pre-emption arguments.

One of the their favorite games is trying to put their opponents on the logical defensive, trapping them into having to prove a negative. In this case, if we had shot the missile down they would argue:

Just because we don’t know how devastating that last missile would have been doesn’t mean we can take a chance on the next one.

Rinse and repeat.

By: Mithras61

Mithras61 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:00:50 +0000

I was thinkin’ that mebbe we could box Charles up & ship him to No. Korea to froth at Kim Jong-Il personally.

Of course, that may be considered cruel & unusual punishment…

By: Broadstreetbuddy

Broadstreetbuddy — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:16:40 +0000

Somali for oh shit = AAAHHH Americans!!

By: Waccamaw

Waccamaw — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:07:33 +0000

May be it’s that nasty ‘mericun desire for immediate gratification in which I try not to participate but it *does* seem to be making our military look something less than competent that they haven’t brought this to resolution given the training we all know they’ve had. Am I being unrealistic here?

By: Waccamaw

Waccamaw — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:03:34 +0000

Actually that was the sentence I wanted to delete. Broke the “do. not. watch. scar” rule today and they read part of his screed about Obama accomplishing nothing on the trip; the idjit screen is still intact……but not by much. :-(

By: oldnslow

oldnslow — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:59:41 +0000

Did you read his POS in the wapo today?

No. His columns (if by column you mean insane rants, written on toilet paper and slipped through the food hatch on the padded cell door) are not something I spend my extremely limited ‘puter time on.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:58:43 +0000

When my son was in special ops they had numerous exercises with seals aimed at recapturing seized vessels.

By: Waccamaw

Waccamaw — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:56:32 +0000

Gives ya real confidence in their competence, don’t it?

Note: #23…..maybe the time lapse was longer than I realized before glancing back to see what I wanted to delete.