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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:20 AM Original message |
Serious question: What exactly is wrong with neo-conservatism? |
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sujan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
1. ha! |
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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Why is that funny? |
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RichM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:34 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. It's funny because you actually swallowed all that jive about "free" and |
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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:44 AM Response to Reply #14 |
24. I know what Bush says is a lie. |
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sujan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:11 AM Original message |
sorry but |
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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
39. Don't be sorry! |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:43 PM Response to Reply #24 |
46. That was more or less Rich's point: what they *say* is wonderful |
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Walt Starr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:47 PM Response to Reply #24 |
48. Since WWII, not one single nation bombed by the U.S. ever gained |
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maggrwaggr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
16. by violently shoving it down their throats? |
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caledesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:16 AM Response to Reply #16 |
37. Exactly. You can't force democracy on people just like you |
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not systems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:40 AM Response to Reply #37 |
40. 6 billion Muslims and 17 million Christians. |
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maha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. Combination of idiocy and various character disorders. |
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JackSwift (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
4. Bringing people freedom from the barrel of a gun |
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Hieronymus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
5. What's wrong with neo-consrevatism? |
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KissMyAsscroft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
6. Well... |
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Maccagirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Exactly |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
7. It is not your job to tell the rest of the world how to live! |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
8. Why is it that one of the oldest society/civilization's on the planet isnt |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:34 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. No, the question is why the hell should it? |
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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:48 AM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Except that... |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:01 AM Response to Reply #15 |
31. I AM A CULTURAL ELITEST?????? |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
9. Democracies aren't bestowed, they happen when people overthrow |
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AntiCoup2K4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
10. If it were a Democracy that might be one thing. But remember that.... |
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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
11. Totally. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:37 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. America is not in a good position to "kick start the process" |
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maggrwaggr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:38 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. They think we'd be better off Muslim |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:40 AM Response to Reply #11 |
20. When the last drop of oil is pumped from the ME in about 80 years |
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RichM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:43 AM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Watch out for sentences like that there "kickstart the process" one -- |
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Darranar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:37 PM Response to Reply #21 |
43. Partially agreed... |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:44 AM Response to Reply #11 |
22. It's undoable anyway |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:44 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. change has ALWAYS come from PEOPLE rising up |
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maggrwaggr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
28. "set up free elections or we'll kill you and burn your cities!" |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. even that won't stop us... remember saddam offered the same deal * said NO |
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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
13. As a liberal minded paleo-conservative |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. They spend more on advertising |
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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:55 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Ads |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
17. the problem is as old as empire... |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
25. What's wrong is that they smell like.... |
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LoneStarLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
30. Keeping My Reply Strictly to Foreign Policy... |
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ant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
32. I agree with you |
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Classical_Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:09 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. No they want to install Chalabi |
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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:10 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Oh, its beyond imagination that war is the right way to achieve their goal |
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Classical_Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:14 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. It's a neocon thing |
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KissMyAsscroft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:11 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. I believe they are doing it for American dominance |
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camero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
38. Because it is not our call |
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Darranar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
42. Two reasons: |
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Darranar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:40 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Addition... |
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Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
45. The Bushies use 'Democracy'... |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
47. Neo-conservatism = imperialism |
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Selwynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-09-03 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
49. What's wrong is that it has nothing, zero, zilch to do with democracy.. |
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