Friday, April 23, 2004

Why Don't Iraqis Appreciate American Generosity?

By Micah Holmquist

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  1. Nothing to see here.
    Move along plz.

    Posted by Chest Rockwell from  on  04/23  at  03:03 PM

  2. Always love the Family Ties quotes! Nice work, my friend.

    Posted by Kap from  on  04/23  at  03:27 PM

  3. Chest,

    You are nothing without Jack!

    Posted by micah holmquist from  on  04/23  at  03:49 PM

  4. I would never have the patience to include that many links in an article.  Congratulations.

    Posted by Justin Felux from  on  04/23  at  06:45 PM

  5. * I especially liked the googling of “greatest country in the world.” It’d be interesting if someone would go through every one of those mentions and see if there are any that don’t refer to the United States.

    Posted by Justin Felux from  on  04/23  at  06:46 PM

  6. Justin,

    I checked the first 10 and they were all referances to the country largely located to the south of Canada and the north of Mexico. Most were sincere, at least one was sarcastic, but they were all about the U.S.

    Since this of course must be true, I wonder when the U.S. gets to collect its award.

    Posted by micah holmquist from  on  04/23  at  06:50 PM

  7. Useful article as it frames the absurd nature of the ABB arguement in more visceral terms – not useful however if people have misinterpreted it and decided to use it as real justification to actually cast a vote for Bush – which it appears some people have. As I’ve said before I think it’s a grave mistake to be brought into an arguement which attempts to quantify, in any meaningful, the presidencies Reagan/Bush1vs. Clinton. I suspect convicing arguments could be made for either case – but can the former though (the so-called overt threat), particulary in respect to activists or progressives (keeping in mind too that the former directely lead into the the latter) be considered more fruitful? So to any progressive argument for Bush over Kerry ultimately resorts to the same mealy-mouther ‘faith based’ assertions that plague the ABB one: “Kerry…maybe…might…possibly…be WORSE…” (Actually I personally think the ABB argument has the ‘slight’ advantage in moral and logical terms—albeit a ignorant one, based on delusion factor X, wheras the the Bush presidency is a known quantity – an abomitable one.) But anyway lets please put this argument out to pasture. And to answer any concerns about the advantages of the more ‘overt threat,’ I pose this question - any people that would essenitally be ‘put to sleep’ by a Kerry presidency (therby necessitating a Bush one) – are they really of any use at this moment anyhow? 

    Apparently some of you didn’t read Stephens’ other recent article from 2 days ago, “My What Would Chomsky Do? Penpals” which closes with the following lines I much much prefer, and suspect (and hope) are more in line with Mr. Gowans own thoughts…

    “Bush is dangerous.
    Right.
    Don’t vote for Bush.
    Couldn’t agree more.
    Be realistic.
    Good point. We should realistically acknowledge that Kerry isn’t going to be any better than Bush, much as we might wish him to be. Realistically speaking, the only option is to vote for neither.”

    Posted by BruceA from  on  04/24  at  01:59 PM

  8. sorry...disreguard that above post...was meaning to repsond to a different article smile

    Posted by BruceA from  on  04/24  at  02:01 PM

  9. Still, if we lose this war maybe Ann Coulter will be forced to wear an Afghan style get up and we couldn’t see her mouth move.

    Posted by Hugo from  on  04/24  at  07:15 PM

  10. Dead, dead, dead from above.
    This is not the smell of the victory.

    Posted by Wasp from  on  04/29  at  06:49 PM

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