Comments on: Excused Horrors – by Walter Williams http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Manhattanite http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6540 Manhattanite Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:06:44 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6540 No sensible discussion may be attempted with a bigot. Arguing with one is a stupidity of the highest order and a total waste of time. I do not seek to arouse any feelings in you. I was hoping for a rational argument as opposed to an encounter with something resembling an abridged Mein Kampf. No sensible discussion may be attempted with a bigot. Arguing with one is a stupidity of the highest order and a total waste of time. I do not seek to arouse any feelings in you. I was hoping for a rational argument as opposed to an encounter with something resembling an abridged Mein Kampf.

]]> By: Manhattanite http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6535 Manhattanite Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:34:49 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6535 I am not abusing the "critics" here. I am responding to a libel being presented as a critique. I am not abusing the “critics” here. I am responding to a libel being presented as a critique.

]]> By: andyFree http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6508 andyFree Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:20:13 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6508 So when you've comprehensively lost the argument, you'll announce that "the world Jew" is now my enemy and that attempting sensible discussion will simply get me ignored. I wonder what feelings you seek to arouse with such a bizarre and ridiculous statement and which particular antisemitic libel you are determined I should believe. So when you've comprehensively lost the argument, you'll announce that “the world Jew” is now my enemy and that attempting sensible discussion will simply get me ignored. I wonder what feelings you seek to arouse with such a bizarre and ridiculous statement and which particular antisemitic libel you are determined I should believe.

]]> By: andyFree http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6501 andyFree Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:35:47 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6501 Abusing the critics of Israel is all you have left. All the "truths" are against you! Abusing the critics of Israel is all you have left. All the “truths” are against you!

]]> By: imgood http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6492 imgood Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:56:38 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6492 Good point, Manhattanite Good point, Manhattanite

]]> By: imgood http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6491 imgood Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:53:46 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6491 Mr. Free, I was simply answering the question why commies get a free ride here; the most reasonable answer is that the academics--and their cohort in the media--are overwhelmingly sympathetic to radical, typically anti-American movements. Describing their attitudes is doing nothing more than stating a well-known fact.<br>Whatever success Chomsky may have had in putting forth a philosophy of language (and even that has some significant critics; see Professor Paul Postal, among many others), his political writing barely merits serious consideration. His enthusiastic, and lonely, support for the Khmer Rouge even among the hard left, even after the revelations of mass murder had come to light, reveal Chomsky to be not only a thoroughgoing moral reprobate, but also less than impressive as a scholar.<br>The chief lesson from Vietnam is that military and moral superiority are insufficient to win a war. A nation needs the will to do so as well. Had we prevailed and kept South Vietnam free, it might well have been the economic success story that South Korea is today. Mr. Free, I was simply answering the question why commies get a free ride here; the most reasonable answer is that the academics–and their cohort in the media–are overwhelmingly sympathetic to radical, typically anti-American movements. Describing their attitudes is doing nothing more than stating a well-known fact.
Whatever success Chomsky may have had in putting forth a philosophy of language (and even that has some significant critics; see Professor Paul Postal, among many others), his political writing barely merits serious consideration. His enthusiastic, and lonely, support for the Khmer Rouge even among the hard left, even after the revelations of mass murder had come to light, reveal Chomsky to be not only a thoroughgoing moral reprobate, but also less than impressive as a scholar.
The chief lesson from Vietnam is that military and moral superiority are insufficient to win a war. A nation needs the will to do so as well. Had we prevailed and kept South Vietnam free, it might well have been the economic success story that South Korea is today.

]]> By: bubba4 http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6437 bubba4 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:28:52 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6437 Whatever gets you through the night.... Whatever gets you through the night….

]]> By: Manhattanite http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6405 Manhattanite Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:25:53 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6405 The little, vain, inane charlatan, pseudo-scientist Chomsky - a giant of schiolarship?! What a travesty. The little, vain, inane charlatan, pseudo-scientist Chomsky – a giant of schiolarship?! What a travesty.

]]> By: Manhattanite http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6404 Manhattanite Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:20:32 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6404 Both you and Paul Sheldon Foote are cavemen. I am sorry, but I find it challenging to counter your "truths" just like it would be pointless to argue that wine is preferrable to piss. Both you and Paul Sheldon Foote are cavemen. I am sorry, but I find it challenging to counter your “truths” just like it would be pointless to argue that wine is preferrable to piss.

]]> By: Manhattanite http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6400 Manhattanite Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:12:42 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6400 AndyFree, man - the wrld Jew also wants to have you by the balls and eat you up alive. You are an idiot, dude. And this is all there is to understand, I am afraid. AndyFree, man – the wrld Jew also wants to have you by the balls and eat you up alive. You are an idiot, dude. And this is all there is to understand, I am afraid.

]]> By: Manhattanite http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6398 Manhattanite Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:06:59 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6398 In fact, from the way things look at the moment, Obama is not trying to wrap them up - he is neither here nor there, he is indecisive at best. There will always be enough people to protest no matter which line the government decides to tout. But the leader must have some backbone and be capable and not afraid of making decisions. There will always be risks involved. But grand speeches and apologies won't make up for it. In fact, from the way things look at the moment, Obama is not trying to wrap them up – he is neither here nor there, he is indecisive at best. There will always be enough people to protest no matter which line the government decides to tout. But the leader must have some backbone and be capable and not afraid of making decisions. There will always be risks involved. But grand speeches and apologies won't make up for it.

]]> By: Manhattanite http://frontpagemag.com/2009/11/19/excused-horrors-by-walter-williams/comment-page-2/#comment-6396 Manhattanite Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:52:06 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/?p=37848#comment-6396 Bush did not exactly start the war in Iraq. That war started back in 1990 and was never finished. Bush actually tried to put an end to it by a forceful military action, which itself followed a string of military/terrorist attacks on the U.S. interests both within the country and abroad, by moslems, in the name of Islam, to which the U.S. never properly responded, and which then culminated in 9/11 massacre. <br><br>Many things went awry. But, looking back in time, no conflict in human history, followed the perfect line. So, it is too early to pronounce a judgement on the events.<br><br>On the other hand, many catastrophic failures were caused by indecision and bickering in the higher echelons of the government. One example which comes to my mind was the Gallipoli campaign fought in the middle of World War I. Bush did not exactly start the war in Iraq. That war started back in 1990 and was never finished. Bush actually tried to put an end to it by a forceful military action, which itself followed a string of military/terrorist attacks on the U.S. interests both within the country and abroad, by moslems, in the name of Islam, to which the U.S. never properly responded, and which then culminated in 9/11 massacre.

Many things went awry. But, looking back in time, no conflict in human history, followed the perfect line. So, it is too early to pronounce a judgement on the events.

On the other hand, many catastrophic failures were caused by indecision and bickering in the higher echelons of the government. One example which comes to my mind was the Gallipoli campaign fought in the middle of World War I.

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