Ernest Brown: Blah blah blah, how do you hold a “culture” accountable for “its” acts? Does it, the “culture” live anywhere in the physical world? The US armed forces are currently training and equipping two muslim armies. It seems to me counterproductive for people to be howling “No dialog with islam” in this setting, no?

Its interesting that none of the blatant racists (or maybe culturalists is a better term) who wrote drivel about muslims wanting to rape blonde girls as part of their religion has been confronted by anyone in here. Silence indicates agreement.

“The real war is the media war”.

Nir Rosen’s interview on “Democracy Now!” revealed a bit more about his character and leanings to me. One quote from the interview;

And it’s unfortunate that — Obama, of course, one of his major platforms is to withdraw from Iraq. That’s the bad war; he needs the good war. So Afghanistan now is the good war. He needs to prove, as a Democrat, that he too can kill brown people.

indicates to me an “anti-war” bent that must by any evaluation color his writings. This slant explains why his writings repeat insurgent claims and dogma as if they were facts.

Rolling Stone has generated some widely-read reporting on this war, mostly on the Iraq Campaign. Now they are weighing in on the Afghan Campaign as well, and it’s more of the same. Defeatism and how are we wrong.

Afghanistan was “the good war” in juxtaposition to the “bad war” in Iraq. That was a diversion to make opposition seem reasonable. Now the colors begin to show; there is no just war. We are wrong on all counts; murderers of innocents; oppressors of “brown people.”

Back to being baby killers.

Yet we cannot get a lick of objective reporting from Afghanistan or certainly Iraq. When the news is good, they simply don’t report from there. Only the bad, the loss, any setbacks; any difficulty on our part. That’s what makes the news.

Nir Rosen does not lay claim to titling his article, but he did write the words that have declared a Taliban victory in Afghanistan. Unless things have changed that drastically in the past six months since I left the place, I am pretty sure he and I were not in the same country.

Right. If it makes you sleep at night knowing that everyone who disagrees with you are pathological liars who hate you anyway, sure sir. And never mind that the Bolsheviks exterminated people of my political opinion, you can call me a Lying Commie-Dhimmi faggot who likes to take it up the arse from muslims. Its been a pleasure getting my prejudices confirmed.