they are quite a lousy army i feel and quite a waste of us investment in hardware when they can be taken down by a ragtag army of guerrillas. but then so has the us.

and as far as the saudi government they are even worth the shit off the ground

Islam is an empire. You can’t go into Somalia or Darfur anymore than you could have gone into red square in Stalins time and handed out “aid”. I know what islam is and I know it isn’t compatiable with America. that’s why I say we get out of there lock stock and barrel. and with a couple of our tax dollars. war IS big government.

Murdoch still owns Sky News, which is the Fox News equivalent in the UK.

Unless it changed since they last carried Sky News on Munich cable, Sky News is hardly similar to Faux News in the US.

When we’re in Munich, I don’t pay attention to cable TV, except for Euronews (euronews.net) and n-tv. Sky News was dropped a number of years ago. They do carry CNN, but out of their studios in the UK.

Out of respect for those who died in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on 9/11, in Madrid on 3/11 and in Loncon on 7/7 Bruce and Dan ought to delete imam lester’s Islamic crap.

“The current squawking also strikes me as a useful reminder of how very, very important war is in the neoconservative vision. It is as central to that vision as peace is to the classical liberal vision … Who we’re fighting is secondary. That we’re fighting is the main thing. To be a neoconservative is to thrill to the sound of gunfire. (From a nice, safe distance, generally.),”

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/07/19/war-without-end/

I don’t know if PJM founder Roger Simon was a red diaper baby, but Bruce Kovner sure was. See “George Soros’s Right-Wing Twin – The Most Powerful New Yorker You’ve Never Heard Of,” by Philip Weiss (New York Magazine, August 8, 2005)

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/12353/index.html

And picking up on the theme of gunfire from a safe distance, we’ve got Max Kampelman. His conscientious objector status during the war against Hitler was obtained for him by Evron Kirkpatrick, husband of Jeane.

Dan, were you a red diaper baby?

Lester: Russell Kirk was most definately not a neo-conservative. They hate him! He believes in small government and local control.

Regards,
Peter H.

Yeah, but utter and complete ignorance of a topic has never stopped you from expressing an opinion about it in the past.

What’s amusing is that Rupert Murdoch, the Australian media mogul, is sponsoring their publication activities in the US, while at the same time sponsoring the Fox TV channel and the FX cable channel, both of which would be anathema to the Faux news crowd, a couple of tittie publications in the UK and so forth. Murdoch used to sponsor Sky TV, which was also sent into Germany over cable, but that seems to have gone by the waywide.

What’s amusing is that the Faux News sycophants seem to swear by their evening line-up. I just wonder, though, just what is their demographic. They get a lot of talking-about, but who are they pitching to? You can usually tell by the nature of the commercials that they carry–Nexium, the purple pill? I don’t watch Faux News, so I don’t know who they expect their audience to be.

Operative word EX. (Except in backwards-land where “ex” actually means “current”.)

[Your assumption that neo cons worship Trotsky proves how little you know about this political philosophy. --Dan]

The ReliRight isn’t responsible for turning conservatives nor the GOP toward a pro-Israeli position… to think otherwise is utter bunk. I can’t believe how the failed GayLeft continues to elevate the role of the ReliRight in all things –as if to smear anything they can by projecting an alliance with something religious. Bunk from the bigots.

Conservatives like Buckley, Russell Kirk, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Rumsfeld, Cheney and others have supported Israel out of an understanding that a strong democracy in the region is to our advantage. Last time I checked, our country’s tab in aid to Israel topped $6.7b.

It’s only when the Democrats come into office that America begins to put pressure on Israel to moderate its standing and “improve” relations with arabs (meaning give away strategic land)… and then invites murderous thugs like Arafat to dinner at the WH. Gheesh.