You mean 60 plus years of defending the country against Soviet expansion? Notice how they're content with letting these leftist nuts take power again now that there isn't an aggressively expansionist nation inching towards them? It's funny, up here in Canada, we have quite a few government monopolies.. and I've yet to hear of CIA or military advisers up here to remove them. Or maybe that's just because they're so damn good, right?
You really think a monolithic conspiracy as is often described to be the "New World Order" couldn't take down these sites if they really wanted to? Really?
You're an arrogant prick. Americans don't deserve their own money? Americans are like children trying to eat candy? Ah, but you're the responsible parent taking peoples hard earned income and pissing it away on things like this. Soon morons like you won't be in charge and we'll all be better off.
Yeah, it's really good to have the Government pick winners and losers in the market. That's the right way to do it! The Government should start a task force designed to give out taxpayer money to fund whatever company it deems is failing and has something innovative planned! Oh, and if that company is bankrupt, the Government should bring it back! Nothing ever could go wrong with this plan; in fact, it's foolproof and perfectly fair. Brilliant!!
It's amazing the vitriol reserved only for a strong female social conservative Republican. I just want to thank you all for your participation. You may not think she's the sharpest knife; we're OK with that. You may think she's an idiot, unelectable, foolish, a fascist... we're OK with that too. The smugness and supposed intellectual superiority exuding from the trenches of Slashdot always amazes me. This one especially so. I'll enunciate why below:
1] You believe that Assange is a hero of some sort.
While this may be the case if he were solely releasing secret information from tyrannical governments, he is more focused on damaging the credibility and security of nations in the west, most specifically the United States. In order to believe that this is good that he is releasing secret information during a war, you have to believe some of the following:
a) The United States (Administration/Government/Military) is corrupt and/or tyrannical and/or evil
b) The information released will harm no one just embarrass our elected officials in an almost amusing or chastising way
c) You disagree with the mission and therefore will support anything that can have an impact in arranging a retreat/redeployment/victory lap out of the engaged country
d) The information released will harm people but you don't care about those people because they're not your friends or political allies
e) You don't believe that there is such a thing as Treason or Espionage and that spies are just heroes in disguise in every instance (or just when they are targeting the west)
f) Only when engaged in Total War should we ever care about operational security.
2] You are deathly afraid of Sarah Palin
This one bemuses most conservatives and it's a prime reason as to why she's still around. We're not terribly keen on her abilities but we are keen on her ideology and her core fundamentals. Her voice is kind of obnoxious and she misspeaks now and then or she brain farts in front of the world. We know that. We're not oblivious. We acknowledge this and move past it because it's very superficial. You guys bought up your well packaged Perfect Man. Not quite the Perfect Man you thought he was, I'd imagine. What does resonate.. and tremendously so.. is her message.
What you don't understand is; the more you resist her the stronger she's going to get. Your inability to be civil.. to keep race and gender out of the equation.. to continue to use childish and personal attacks against her..just fuels her, because you see, she just mirrors you back to conservatives. *You* are Sarah Palin's fuel. Your injustice breeds this brand of politics. Conservatives outnumber you and every time they're shown by her what knuckle dragging comments come to her, they see the bias and jump your ship. You will see that if conservatives can not muster up a proper challenger, we may indeed have Sarah Palin in the running and she may indeed be victorious. She would not be our ideal candidate but she's definitely not your ideal candidate. We like that you think she's stupid because she's not.. you just think anyone that disagrees with your philosophy or view point is stupid. (By virtue of the logic of: Well, only an idiot could think my political point of view is wrong!) Such arrogance and pompous remarks fill this column. We like that you're afraid of her because we don't like your advocacy of tyranny against the individual by the majority, and what causes a tyrant to wake up in a cold sweat is something to attain. And you see, we'd do all we could to make it happen, just to humble you ivory tower elitists who say it's impossible or that she would be a terrible president because of anything, her proving you wrong, that certainly would. You've put all your eggs in one basket. A grave (and desperate) political strategy mistake. You can't fight Bush anymore.. lost to Fox News.. and need something to focus your rage on. We gave you something, good luck.;)
Really? Theoretical? You relate to harm as though it's a kind of damage that is quick and very obvious. Like a single person being assassinated. How about the credibility of a nation or the damage it does to our ability to conduct diplomacy (you know, the thing the left seems to indicate we should do at all costs.) Or how about to the lives of those women left behind in Afghanistan when we leave? How about to the South Koreans that get bombarded by North Korea due to our weak stance. Perhaps you can't see it directly impacting it (ie. A+B=C style.) That doesn't mean it's not perceivable. And it WILL be very perceivable in the near future. Do you know how valuable credibility is? Do you know how many laurels are rested on the credibility of the United States? Do you realize what will happen when that is no longer credible? Maybe not now, but you will.
Also, #2, considering so much of these counterinsurgencies are deeply classified; by what pretense to you presume to say that they have been prosecuted badly? Are you some kind of military wizard who knows more about war fighting than everyone else? What false pretenses was NATO given to go into Afghanistan? 9/11? Was 9/11 a false pretense? One may claim that Weapons of Mass Destruction was a false pretense to go into Iraq but there were many other legitimate reasons, one being they violated a cease fire agreement on a daily basis while still being in a state of war.
And to address what you are saying about Palin, we like that you think that. We're counting on it.;)
Actually, since he was elected by a vast majority of people from one specific race; it would seem that racism was the reason he won. He didn't overcome racism; he benefited from it directly.
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You mean 60 plus years of defending the country against Soviet expansion? Notice how they're content with letting these leftist nuts take power again now that there isn't an aggressively expansionist nation inching towards them? It's funny, up here in Canada, we have quite a few government monopolies.. and I've yet to hear of CIA or military advisers up here to remove them. Or maybe that's just because they're so damn good, right?
You really think a monolithic conspiracy as is often described to be the "New World Order" couldn't take down these sites if they really wanted to? Really?
Unless you're trying to hide what you're doing so others do not wrong you. Like foreign terrorist groups or tyrannical regimes... for instance..
You're an arrogant prick. Americans don't deserve their own money? Americans are like children trying to eat candy? Ah, but you're the responsible parent taking peoples hard earned income and pissing it away on things like this. Soon morons like you won't be in charge and we'll all be better off.
Yeah, it's really good to have the Government pick winners and losers in the market. That's the right way to do it! The Government should start a task force designed to give out taxpayer money to fund whatever company it deems is failing and has something innovative planned! Oh, and if that company is bankrupt, the Government should bring it back! Nothing ever could go wrong with this plan; in fact, it's foolproof and perfectly fair. Brilliant!!
Try adding in private contributions. That'll screw up your little screed pretty quickly.
It's amazing the vitriol reserved only for a strong female social conservative Republican. I just want to thank you all for your participation. You may not think she's the sharpest knife; we're OK with that. You may think she's an idiot, unelectable, foolish, a fascist... we're OK with that too. The smugness and supposed intellectual superiority exuding from the trenches of Slashdot always amazes me. This one especially so. I'll enunciate why below:
;)
1] You believe that Assange is a hero of some sort.
While this may be the case if he were solely releasing secret information from tyrannical governments, he is more focused on damaging the credibility and security of nations in the west, most specifically the United States. In order to believe that this is good that he is releasing secret information during a war, you have to believe some of the following:
a) The United States (Administration/Government/Military) is corrupt and/or tyrannical and/or evil
b) The information released will harm no one just embarrass our elected officials in an almost amusing or chastising way
c) You disagree with the mission and therefore will support anything that can have an impact in arranging a retreat/redeployment/victory lap out of the engaged country
d) The information released will harm people but you don't care about those people because they're not your friends or political allies
e) You don't believe that there is such a thing as Treason or Espionage and that spies are just heroes in disguise in every instance (or just when they are targeting the west)
f) Only when engaged in Total War should we ever care about operational security.
2] You are deathly afraid of Sarah Palin
This one bemuses most conservatives and it's a prime reason as to why she's still around. We're not terribly keen on her abilities but we are keen on her ideology and her core fundamentals. Her voice is kind of obnoxious and she misspeaks now and then or she brain farts in front of the world. We know that. We're not oblivious. We acknowledge this and move past it because it's very superficial. You guys bought up your well packaged Perfect Man. Not quite the Perfect Man you thought he was, I'd imagine. What does resonate.. and tremendously so.. is her message.
What you don't understand is; the more you resist her the stronger she's going to get. Your inability to be civil.. to keep race and gender out of the equation.. to continue to use childish and personal attacks against her..just fuels her, because you see, she just mirrors you back to conservatives. *You* are Sarah Palin's fuel. Your injustice breeds this brand of politics. Conservatives outnumber you and every time they're shown by her what knuckle dragging comments come to her, they see the bias and jump your ship. You will see that if conservatives can not muster up a proper challenger, we may indeed have Sarah Palin in the running and she may indeed be victorious. She would not be our ideal candidate but she's definitely not your ideal candidate. We like that you think she's stupid because she's not.. you just think anyone that disagrees with your philosophy or view point is stupid. (By virtue of the logic of: Well, only an idiot could think my political point of view is wrong!) Such arrogance and pompous remarks fill this column. We like that you're afraid of her because we don't like your advocacy of tyranny against the individual by the majority, and what causes a tyrant to wake up in a cold sweat is something to attain. And you see, we'd do all we could to make it happen, just to humble you ivory tower elitists who say it's impossible or that she would be a terrible president because of anything, her proving you wrong, that certainly would. You've put all your eggs in one basket. A grave (and desperate) political strategy mistake. You can't fight Bush anymore.. lost to Fox News.. and need something to focus your rage on. We gave you something, good luck.
Really? Theoretical? You relate to harm as though it's a kind of damage that is quick and very obvious. Like a single person being assassinated. How about the credibility of a nation or the damage it does to our ability to conduct diplomacy (you know, the thing the left seems to indicate we should do at all costs.) Or how about to the lives of those women left behind in Afghanistan when we leave? How about to the South Koreans that get bombarded by North Korea due to our weak stance. Perhaps you can't see it directly impacting it (ie. A+B=C style.) That doesn't mean it's not perceivable. And it WILL be very perceivable in the near future. Do you know how valuable credibility is? Do you know how many laurels are rested on the credibility of the United States? Do you realize what will happen when that is no longer credible? Maybe not now, but you will. Also, #2, considering so much of these counterinsurgencies are deeply classified; by what pretense to you presume to say that they have been prosecuted badly? Are you some kind of military wizard who knows more about war fighting than everyone else? What false pretenses was NATO given to go into Afghanistan? 9/11? Was 9/11 a false pretense? One may claim that Weapons of Mass Destruction was a false pretense to go into Iraq but there were many other legitimate reasons, one being they violated a cease fire agreement on a daily basis while still being in a state of war. And to address what you are saying about Palin, we like that you think that. We're counting on it. ;)
Actually, since he was elected by a vast majority of people from one specific race; it would seem that racism was the reason he won. He didn't overcome racism; he benefited from it directly.