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Forum Post D: On Imagined Massacres

Forum Post, April, 15 2011 Martin D
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Alan J. Kuperman does a much better job at cutting through the hysteria over "imminent" massacres on the scale of Rwanda happening in Libya had imperial forces not intervened. I raised this issue a few times in my posts here at Z. ...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: AMONG BELIEVERS (addendum)

Forum Post, April, 11 2011 Michael Albert
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Leen, Okay, I was short and succinct. When I do that, folks often want longer. When I do longer, folks often want shorter. But since you seem to have found my words unclear, let me try again...clarifying at length... You initially wrote about fi...

Forum Post Karman: Re: Re: AMONG BELIEVERS (addendum)

Forum Post, April, 11 2011 Leen Karman
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"... I am not sure why you think your tone is constructive ..." A weird way of questioning the character of one's remarks. Not that constructive I think. Well, Michael, we can consider my attitude to life, to society. Seem...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: In the End the Disaster Was Predicted

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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I have told you why I felt on the fence, lack of reliable information, trusting information from the best sources I had access to, etc. etc., and actually still think that was a perfectly reasonable view.  It isn't clear to me what is unf...

Forum Post D: Re: Re: Re: Re: In the End the Disaster Was Predicted

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Martin D
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Michael, (I changed my screen name to Martin D - I used to be mpsmith01 martin or something I didn't know why till i found and edited my profile - sorry) I'm unclear as to why you think I believe only I "care about imperialism, unde...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: Re: In the End the Disaster Was Predicted

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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That you think you should say what you think, goes without saying. Of course you should. But there is a difference between saying you THINK achcar's reasoning, say, was flawed, and saying it simply was flawed - period. Maybe it is a fine line...

Forum Post Albert: Re: I now that I am breing a nuicance

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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There is no problem not being able to write or speak another language - I can't, not nearly as well as you manage. Not remotely as well. However, were I trying to do so, in some venue, it would make me be very careful to not misunderstand wha...

Forum Post D: Re: Re: In the End the Disaster Was Predicted

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Martin D
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Michael, I don't condemn any "reasonable" person for feeling the benefits for the Libyan opposition outweighed the dangers of NATO intervention.  I'm not calling for their heads because they came to this conclusion. &...

Forum Post Protagoras: Gaddafi Books

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Dolores Protagoras
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Dear Mr Fisk I have come to look  to your astute analyses for orientation. That is why I am disappointed with some of your writings on Libya. Some of Gaddafi's  statements which you cite as insane make sense to me.  For example,...

Forum Post Nikonov: I now that I am breing a nuicance

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Alla Nikonov

here. But I suppose sometimes somebody has to. I amnot going to write aritcles here for many reasons - my rather poor written English is only one of them, sorry. But I still could read English well enough, thank you very much. If you do not lik...

Forum Post Albert: Re: Re: I see - one more time the old song

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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Brussel, Which leftist do you think did not understand it was a "slippery slope"? Everyone I know understood that, quite easily, in about five seconds of thought. Certainly everyone who has been published on Z. Honestly, how could anyo...

Forum Post Albert: Re: I see - one more time the old song

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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Alla, You routinely seem to me to fail to read what people write, or at least to actually refer to it in a way that corresponds to their words, and that makes it hard to know how to reply. That U.S. institutional motives are imperialist is obvio...

Forum Post Albert: Re: AMONG BELIEVERS (addendum)

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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Leen, I am not sure why you think your tone is constructive...but...it made it hard for me to actually know what you were saying. So did the fact that you took issue with, as far as I could see, not one word we wrote... It seems you are worrying ...

Forum Post Albert: Re: regional issues

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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Joe, I agree with your first paragraph fully, and within the constraints of trying to provide short answers to the questions we raised, that is precisely what we did.  I agree with your second paragraph too - though so far there is little i...

Forum Post Albert: Re: In the End the Disaster Was Predicted

Forum Post, April, 10 2011 Michael Albert
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Hi, I guess we can just agree to disagree about aspects - though if you read the piece you will see we do not disagree about U.S. motives, NATO motives, bad and even horrible effects of intervention, etc.  etc. We point out - I think quite c...

Forum Post Mpsmith01: In the End the Disaster Was Predicted

Forum Post, April, 09 2011 Martin Mpsmith01
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As much as there is a lot to be appreciated about the questions raised and the thoughtful answers given here I remain very frustrated that the whole exercise seems to be obsessed with a fear of people not being nice to each other rather than eithe...

Forum Post Emersberger: I agree but Haiti (the way it is cited) is a bad example

Forum Post, April, 09 2011 Joe Emersberger
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This article makes very good points but is way off the mark when it points to US intervention in Haiti in 1994 as an example of a "disastrous" intervention. It is very misleading to imply - as I think the articles does - that what the...

Forum Post H: regional issues

Forum Post, April, 08 2011 Joe H
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I fully agree when you say about disagreing "this doesn't mean denouncing each other as the enemy or impugning each other's motives or political credentials".  Although I'm happy to see people forging alliances between d...

Forum Post Karman: AMONG BELIEVERS (addendum)

Forum Post, April, 08 2011 Leen Karman
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Well, Michael (and Stephen - shalom be upon you) you've made my day. Thanks to you, now I do know that, whether my assessment is correct or not, I am thinking clearly and evidencing fine and worthy values, when I do reject the Libya int...

Forum Post Brussel: Re: I see - one more time the old song

Forum Post, April, 08 2011 Morton k. Brussel
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I tend to agree with Nikonov, adding that any such a "no-fly zone" argument, carried out by the U.S. and its clients, was clearly a very slippery slope, which leftists should have understood.  In additon, we again have the "ma...

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