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Patience Withers's avatar

This is a great hit job. I’m not being sarcastic—I really did find it a worthwhile read as someone who teaches about Arendt and violence. The target deserves this trenchant criticism.

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Ken Silverstein's avatar

Thanks, appreciate it. There's seriously some moral defect with this guy. How do you think, let alone write & publish, “Foreign factories should be more dangerous than American factories?"

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Patience Withers's avatar

Exactly. You nailed it. In my language, he fails “basic human.”

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Brown's avatar

Keep on, go after the lot of them; and the fat cats who pay their way. The young will soon be uncovering the rotteness of this systematic moral corruption and the political structures it maintains, of which Israel in Gaza is an intimate part.

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Ken Silverstein's avatar

Oh, I'm working my way thru the list, the problem is there are so many of them & a new one pops up every day.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

"Yglesias [ ...] became bored, yawned, and slowly rolled over in bed and fell asleep.'

No less bored than anyone reading his anodyne, Beltway-ish commentary...feh!

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Ken Silverstein's avatar

Like watching a rotisserie chicken go round & round...

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Sfgumshoe's avatar

I have no quarrel with your criticism of Yglesias, but are you sure Trump deserves credit for the Gaza ceasefire?

My spidey sense is reminded of these past Republican capers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chennault

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory

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Ken Silverstein's avatar

Well, he did admit he made a mistake about the 2003 invasion & was real sad about the 500,000 or so Iraqi corpses, but he had a good explanation: "When Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Joe Biden, John Edwards, etc. told me they thought invading Iraq was a good idea I took them very seriously. I knew that Carl Levin & Nancy Pelosi were on the other side, but the bulk of the leading Democratic voices on national security and foreign policy issues were in favor of the war. So was Tony Blair. These were credible people whose views I took seriously." There's no place in hell...

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