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Thank you, Richard I am duly

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:07:38 +0000

In reply to This is well done. How might

Thank you, Richard

I am duly honored!

I must get a life. If only these Republicans would go away

David

This is well done. How might

Richard Day — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:27:02 +0000

In reply to Memo to the Presidential Candidates: Cut the Warfare State, Not the Welfare State

This is well done.

How might I disagree with this assessment and of course your title rules.

I hereby render unto Coatesd the Dayly Blog of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site rendered to all of him from all of me.

THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.

You work and study very hard!

And unlike me, you know what you are writing about!

Come on, we never saw the

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:55:55 +0000

In reply to I said he "doesn't" like

Come on, we never saw the body... ;-)

I said he "doesn't" like

Aaron Carine — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:21:11 +0000

In reply to I think the rationalizing of

I said he "doesn't" like Communism. Of course, I should have said "didn't".

I think the rationalizing of

Aaron Carine — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:20:05 +0000

In reply to Memo to the Presidential Candidates: Cut the Warfare State, Not the Welfare State

I think the rationalizing of 9/11 and other Islamic terrorism as merely a response to American imperialism is outrageous.

In 2001, Bin Laden's only legitimate grievance had to do with Iraq. His other beefs were our failure to abandon Israel, which we shouldn't do, the presence of our troops in Saudi Arabia( hardly a crime, and we were in Saudi Arabia's "sovereign territory" with the consent of the sovereign) and that we were an obstacle to a "global Islamic state". (I don't suppose you sympathize with that goal).

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ubl-fbis.pdf pg.136, 146

These are the reasons, not the seventy interventions, certainly not the anti-Communist interventions, since Bin Laden doesn't like Communism any more than J. Edgar Hoover did.

Arab terrorism is the responsibility of Arabs, not Americans, the ends as well as the means are immoral, and jihadism is itself a form of imperialism, as the intent is to force other countries into obedience, the same as the U.S. and other imperial powers have done.

I believe the title on your

artappraiser — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:56:27 +0000

In reply to Memo to the Presidential Candidates: Cut the Warfare State, Not the Welfare State

I believe the title on your fine post assures that you will only preach to the choir with it. Why bring up "the welfare state" at all? If you didn't, you might convince some who don't support a "welfare state" that Romney's military proposals are folly.