tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post8326841323119480675..comments2024-03-28T07:50:06.102-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Claire Connelly - The economy of permanent warmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-36560446501596748662018-08-31T20:37:08.955-04:002018-08-31T20:37:08.955-04:00Again, it's called international law, somethin...<i>Again, it's called international law, something the US is a high signatory to and therefore has a great responsibility to protect, not to flout</i><br /><br />The United States considers international law a work in progress. In other words, it makes it up as it goes along :)lastgreekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00354740659933239445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-51671350300023839432018-08-31T12:29:50.894-04:002018-08-31T12:29:50.894-04:00Right, here we go again. Matt making stuff up agai...Right, here we go again. Matt making stuff up again, wildly concocting "evidence". When did I say 80% is a minority? Go on, where? I commented about the date of the study, what the study asked, and all the lies and propaganda that were swirling around at the time thereby distorting the public's perception. Shortly afterwards, a majority of the public turned against the war. All facts. I like facts. <br /><br />Take a math class? Why would I take them again? I passed them first time round, undergraduate and graduate (summa cum laude, to use the American distinction). You, on the other hand, are in desperate need of the most elementary mathematics. <br /><br />As for what John McCain said, you have to prove the assertion, not state it. It's called international law. If proven, which it wasn't, that does not give any state the right to attack another state. Again, it's called international law, something the US is a high signatory to and therefore has a great responsibility to protect, not to flout. Washington simply decides to bomb, invade, occupy and drone other countries. There is no great pretence that there is anything legal about any of this. Many Americans don't care about the law (American exceptionalism and all that nonsense), but losing wars and crippling your military in the process should make you think again, except of course it's so brave to push a button from far away and blow away innocent people, for which medals are given out! The mind boggles! On the ground, meanwhile, where the real action is, the US military got their heads kicked in so badly they had to be pulled out by their distraught commanders. <br /><br />That's the message the world now knows: illiterate peasant farmers and fishermen are more than capable of smashing the mighty US military with nothing more than old rifles and booby traps...again. Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, it's a never-ending list of unimaginable military fiascos, failures and, worse yet, defeats by supposed "shithole" countries who in almost every way are far more humane and civilised than our own. If Americans had any sense, they wouldn't send their boys to get mangled and turned into vegetable puree on the basis of absurd lies. They'd ensure that their own politicians are executed for high crimes and treason. <br /><br />As for your link to people cheering Trump's proposal to murder the families of the terrorists, a lot can be said. But it is evidence of a peculiar strain of psychopathy that people would support what is essentially a Nazi proposal. Imagine if Bin Laden had said he supported the murder of every man, woman and child who was related to an American serviceman or servicewoman. Rightly, the world would be appalled. Trump, meanwhile, gets elected by Christians, a religion which was started by pacifists. As the historians have said time and again, if a first century Christian met a modern Christian they wouldn't know what had hit them. My take is that, a first century Christian would genuinely believe that they had met a satanist, which is what the American "Christian" right essentially is, condemning the sins of a Democrat but forgiving the sins of a Republican. What a freak show.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18181631191840432399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-30243863335505067132018-08-31T12:26:35.607-04:002018-08-31T12:26:35.607-04:00"I think it's both," McCain replied....<i>"I think it's both," McCain replied. "As — as we stated, the — a nation has the right to defend itself, No. 1. But No. 2, these organizations could not flourish effectively unless they had the help and assistance and safe harbor of these nations. And it isn't just Afghanistan — we're talking about Syria, Iraq, Iran, perhaps North Korea, Libya and others."<br /><br />This is still going on... from the US perspective... yes taking a long time...<br /><br />Trump is perhaps changing tactics .. </i> <br /><br />The concept that McCain put forward was given the name "nation-building."<br /><br />Trump ran against nation-building. This is a element in America First.<br /><br />He is now conflicted in that he doesn't want to engage in nation building in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which correctly views as quagmire for the US. But he wants the oil, and the military and foreign policy elite are also explaining to him that "national building" is just BS that justifies US occupation of strategic areas, which it never leaves. Germany and Japan are still occupied fifty years after WWII.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-33037767049227100842018-08-31T11:20:27.011-04:002018-08-31T11:20:27.011-04:00Btw the families appear to be perhaps on the table...Btw the families appear to be perhaps on the table now:<br /><br />https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2016/1/25/10828770/trump-terrorist-family-Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-4119930000467217792018-08-31T10:13:09.277-04:002018-08-31T10:13:09.277-04:00John here is McCain from back then:
“On Sept. 12...John here is McCain from back then:<br /><br />“On Sept. 12, 2001, he appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where Matthews asked whether the appropriate response should be "a legal matter or a military matter."<br /><br />"I think it's both," McCain replied. "As — as we stated, the — a nation has the right to defend itself, No. 1. But No. 2, these organizations could not flourish effectively unless they had the help and assistance and safe harbor of these nations. And it isn't just Afghanistan — we're talking about Syria, Iraq, Iran, perhaps North Korea, Libya and others."<br /><br />This is still going on... from the US perspective... yes taking a long time...<br /><br />Trump is perhaps changing tactics ...Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-30666794327596007672018-08-31T09:57:56.990-04:002018-08-31T09:57:56.990-04:00Yeah 8 out of 10 is a minority... take a math clas...Yeah 8 out of 10 is a minority... take a math class sometime...Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-414993319955627712018-08-31T08:52:56.302-04:002018-08-31T08:52:56.302-04:00The Rand study was published in 2005, two years af...The Rand study was published in 2005, two years after the invasion of Iraq, when lies and propaganda were at their height. Soon after, public opinion turned sharply against, leaving only the deluded and genocidal "Christian" right and super-deluded nationalist and neoconservative buffoons supporting it. <br /><br />The subtle and misleading nature of the polling questions are worth highlighted. For example, if the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks are traced back to Afghanistan, do you support military action? At the time the war was launched, the best intelligence was that the US had no idea who did it, but the suspicion was Bin Laden. Years later, it was found that Afghanistan had nothing to do with it. The plot and the planning came out of Germany, and all the training was done in the US. Facts, fuck them, they're anti-war or stochastic or claim we evolved or some such bullshit. <br /><br />The full horror and stupidity of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq finally dawned on just about everyone (except the anti-anti-war armchair warriors who get off on the sight of innocent blood being shed while quoting the Bible) when huge numbers of coffins draped in the flag started coming home, prothetic limbs and scarred faces were a daily sight, the jihadis made immeasurably stronger and the terrible but obvious conclusion reached that the wars were going to be lost, which they have. <br /><br />It's nice to know that Matt only favours stochastic measures when it seemingly supports his arguments, dismissing the most important scientific facts 99.9999999999999% of the time as stochastic or evolutionary bullshit, favouring exact solutions, again failing to understand the mathematical fact almost ALL equations, if they can be formulated, do not have exact solutions and must be "solved" by approximation techniques. That's why a huge amount of time is spent on numerical, approximation and perturbation techniques. If anyone can find exact solutions, they'll be rightly considered the greatest mathematician in history and worthy of countless awards.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18181631191840432399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-32303355517594085602018-08-31T08:46:21.839-04:002018-08-31T08:46:21.839-04:00"Wrong..."
Right. A 13 year old poll fr..."Wrong..."<br /><br />Right. A 13 year old poll from 2005 is good enough for the scientist Matt Franko.<br />Simsalablunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514131877923113302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-59042295157868546212018-08-31T08:46:12.638-04:002018-08-31T08:46:12.638-04:00Kaivey, please don't feed the wretched little ...Kaivey, please don't feed the wretched little troll. Never read its pathetic comments. Never give it any response. The filthy P.O.S. lives for attention, so don't give it any. Starve it into extinction.Konradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739209449391854796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-85126388092917512462018-08-31T06:22:19.224-04:002018-08-31T06:22:19.224-04:00Wrong...
“Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanist...Wrong...<br /><br />“Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan<br />The average level of <b>support for the U.S. military action in Afghanistan approached the eight in ten </b> that typically supported World War II.“<br /><br />https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG231.pdfMatt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-88154234869790653022018-08-31T01:41:30.108-04:002018-08-31T01:41:30.108-04:00The majority of people are anti-war, Matt, and if ...The majority of people are anti-war, Matt, and if knew what was going on they would put the pro-war aristocracy in jail. Kaiveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04195639305785321786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-34095617598685304732018-08-30T20:14:11.827-04:002018-08-30T20:14:11.827-04:00You guys should start to think about how you’d rea...You guys should start to think about how you’d react if we actually had a war,..Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-83698871105764285922018-08-30T20:12:24.587-04:002018-08-30T20:12:24.587-04:00You guys are extremely biased anti-war...You guys are extremely biased anti-war...Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-5945696351531029442018-08-30T17:32:59.555-04:002018-08-30T17:32:59.555-04:00The government can pay for all this war because of...The government can pay for all this war because of "modern money". Which, of course, is the real reason we have "modern money". It's such a great thing that the Deep State and military are not "revenue constrained", isn't it?Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.com