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Me too, so I can't judge JR

Aaron Carine — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:42:09 +0000

In reply to Yeah, there have been times

Me too, so I can't judge JR that harshly. Although perhaps we should all be ashamed. I got a statement out of a book and was informed that a few pages later there was another statement that contradicted it. I was guilty of laziness, but I think the author shouldn't have been contradicting himself like that.

Spontaneous me...

jollyroger — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:08:45 +0000

In reply to I, for one, like your

Spontaneous me...

I, for one, like your

Peter Schwartz — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:01:31 +0000

In reply to Well, of course, had I

I, for one, like your kamikaze, throw-all-caution-to-the-wind approach to posting, Jolly. For one thing, it makes our job much easier-:)

Well, of course, had I

jollyroger — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:54:40 +0000

In reply to Yeah, there have been times

Well, of course, had I bothered actually to read the article, I might have been saved the embarrasment...that said, I happen to know independently that the Japanese felt severely squeezed, and FDR was under no illusions as to the probable outcome of his sanctions...Not that there was anything wrong with that...

Yeah, there have been times

Verified Atheist — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:40:13 +0000

In reply to burned by the

Yeah, there have been times when I've been searching for something and I find a link that seems to back up what I'm saying, but when I keep reading…

On more than one occasion it's bitten me.

burned by the

jollyroger — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:11:27 +0000

In reply to Given that it came from the

burned by the algorithm...Evil Eric, Evil!

If you have an example of how

jollyroger — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:33:07 +0000

In reply to #3 is pretty ridiculous -

If you have an example of how Ukraine this century is more anti-semitic than any country in the EU, out with it

Wolfsangel, symbol of Svoboda (look familiar?)

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/18/yes_there_are_bad_guys_...

h/t Pepe Escobar, whom I continue to (suspect is unverified Peter...)

Given that it came from the

Verified Atheist — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:25:08 +0000

In reply to By the way, the lecture you

Given that it came from the Mises Institute, I'm hardly surprised.

By the way, the lecture you

Aaron Carine — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:20:00 +0000

In reply to Yeah, but sanctions on Russia

By the way, the lecture you linked to is bullshit. This guy is blaming the Allies for World War II; making the aggressors into the victims. That he cites Barnes, a discredited crank and Holocaust denier, is one reason that it is bullshit.

Yeah, but sanctions on Russia

Aaron Carine — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:15:15 +0000

In reply to if by "meant" you mean

Yeah, but sanctions on Russia won't be lethal.(this may be nitpicking, but UNICEF said that Iraq's increased child mortality wasn't solely due to sanctions; http://www.unicef.org/newsline/99pr29.htm).

Sanctions aren't considered a legitimate casus belli by the United Nations Charter or the earlier League of Nations Charter. It would be especially lame for Japan to say "we had to engage in aggression because of the sanctions imposed on us due to our previous aggression in China".