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Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies
Lev13than writes "In a direct retort to Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced competing rallies on October 30th. Stewart plans to host a 'Rally To Restore Sanity' on Oct. 30 on the National Mall in D.C. for the Americans he says are too busy living normal, rational lives to attend other political demonstrations. Colbert, meantime, will shepherd his fans in a 'March To Keep Fear Alive.' 'Damn your reasonableness!' Colbert said. 'Now is not the time to take it down a notch. Now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom!' Stewart, meanwhile, has promised to provide attendees with signs featuring slogans such as 'I Disagree With You But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler' and 'I'm Afraid of Spiders.'"
Yes, since the actual Democrats can't stand a chance getting a significant turnout for a rally, they got Stewart and Colbert to front for them so that they can pretend that this is a non-partisan rally. Take a look at the names on the application for the permit for this. Two of the three are former members of the Clinton Whitehouse. The third is a corporation that I didn't do the research to find out its background.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
That's like saying Cuba is no communist country; if you want to see REAL communism you have to look at Mao's China (20-40 million dead in the Great Leap) or Stalin's Russia (God knows how many millions). No thanks!
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
So you really think you can eliminate the Taliban by war?
Reading comprehension. Elimination doesn't simply mean erradication. It means beating them to the point of being combat ineffectual so that the transitional government can take up his defense. Again, you read too much of history without actually understanding it.
They're not an army, they are an idea.
Rhetorical nonsense. They are a militant group fueled by an idea and by ethnic tensions. They are to be eliminated or contained by military means and by reconstructing Afghanistan (so that youth have better alternatives.) As it is, they are a fringe even among the conservative Pashtuns.
It strikes me as the same stupidity the romans exhibited when they thought they could eliminate christians by feeding them to the lions.
More rhetorical nonsense.
It is this illusion of america as the world power, the guys who can go into bad places to "fix" them.
And how long have you been holding that close to your dear heart to say it? It has nothing to do with illusion. Right or wrong, 9/11 happened and the only recourse of action was to attack them, and to assist those Afghans already at war with the Taliban, or are they an illusion, too?
If my history serves correctly, it worked once in the entire american history - with Germany after WW2.
So? You keep trying to come up with analogies as if trying to impart a lesson.
You forget, however, that this was with a people that were looking up to the US, considered it a land of dreams and were from a similar culture anyways.
Now try to put yourself into the average Afghan's shoes. There are some people, not from any foreign country, but from the Great Satan.
Unfortunately, you seem to forget that the majority of Afghans were against the Taliban yoke to begin with, in particular among the non-Pashtun and moderate Pashhuns (the bulk of the population.) You are still trying to make this as if it were a war of assimilation. It is not.
They speak only gibberish in their own language and come over to tell you - after all you've endured with the russians and the Taliban and the warlord and the drug trade and everything else - how to run your life. They are also heretics at best, followers of an outright evil religion at worst, some even those guys you've heard about slaughtering your brothers in far away Palestine. Oh, and they bombed the village next door yesterday. Some people you knew died.
Yeah, you are sure to listen to them. Well, if you treasure your survival, you will pretend to, wait until they leave (like every invader before them) and then go back to your old ways.
If they go their old ways, that's their problem. Our problem is the containment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda till the moment we can live the Afghan government to their devices. Hopefully, we will help in the reconstruction (it's the moral thing to do.)
But there is nothing for us to prevent them to go their old ways. There is no pretension from our part, even if you like to think of it for the sake of building a strawman to argue with.
Reality is that they might go back their old ways. It's a given, but it is also a given that the non-Pashtun are far more favorable to amicable relation with the US, sort of like the Kurds in Iraq. That will be a different state of affairs that will have to be evaluated accordingly.
You call me arrogant. I call you partisantly disingenuous at best (and hypocrite at worst).
As I have no part in american politics, I mostly find both parties equally distasteful. Though the republicans under Bush certainly set new standards.
You are a partisan in the sense that you decide to look at things through myopic partisan eyes, attributing connotations that do not exist simply for the sake of expressing the arguments you harbor. As far as I know in the english language, partisanship has not been confined to partake in American politics, has it?