To the element amongst us which has embraced the idea that the enemy of our enemy is our friend...

[The Night Owl]

I hope that the element amongst us which has embraced the idea that the enemy of our enemy is our friend has learned a lesson from Mr. Ahmadinejad's embarrassing performance at Columbia University.

That is all... Carry on.

[fenriswolf]

1. link?

[MADem]

8. Link to what? The OP expressed an opinion. NT

[Clintonista2]

24. "There are no gays in Iran"

Sound familiar?

[lligrd]

2. I Thought It Was The Repukes Who Believed In That Theory

Who was it that was friends with Saddam? I see a lot of similarities between Amadinejad and *.

[movonne]

3. You mean "the element among us" that has a different thought than

you do..what kind of element are you talking about...you are also a element among us...

[dipsydoodle]

4. It's not so much "our" enemy's enemy

it's his sisters, and his cousins and his aunts............tra la. G & S.

I can't grasp what you're going on about either.

[TheWraith]

5. I prefer the corrolary to that idea...

The enemy of my enemy can kiss my ass too.

Just because one side in an argument is bad doesn't make the other guy good. In Maddie's case, he's playing the same game Bush is: playing reasonable for the world while trying to boost his weak domestic support by alternatively threatening and acting threatened. They might as well be using the same speechwriter, just replace "terrorists" with "Zionists" and vice versa. Not saying the Israelis are innocent, either, but the Iranians have the LEAST right to complain. Let Jordan and Lebanon get in line ahead of them.

[MarianJack]

6. Sorry,...

...I remember 444 days as a young adult too vividly to ever consider the Iranian regime a friend just because they don't like bush either.

Just because our glorious leader is a total asshole doesn't make amadinejad any better.

They are 2 turds in a bucket from which I intend to stay far away.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I hope you'll learn a lesson that when you play with strawmen you're going to get burned.

Nobody's embraced Ahmadinejad, they're just not stupid enough to have gotten caught up in a five minute hate.

[The Night Owl]

9. I did not claim that anyone here has embraced Mr. Ahmadinejad. EOM

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. "to the element amongst us"

Cut the crap.

[AuntPatsy]

11. Read like that to me, what were you trying to imply then?

[distantearlywarning]

12. This is the kind of language that incites flame wars.

Your subject line is condescending, and you imply that anyone who disagrees with your viewpoint is both stupid and hateful.

Surely you could find another, more civilized way of expressing your disagreement with the OP.

This kind of shit is hurting DU, and I would like to politely ask you to knock it off already.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Nertz to you.

If the OP or you don't like it, you can take this "some people say" strawman shit elsewhere.

[distantearlywarning]

22. Address my point about this kind of behavior hurting DU.

It's not about me personally. I'm not the OP, and I don't know the OP, so I don't care if he/she gets her feelings hurt.

But you know in your heart of hearts that this kind of debate "style" is not conducive to productive discussion here on DU.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. I disagree with it.

I think the sort of behavior in the OP that is the problem. Not that I think it is so grandiose as to "hurt DU."

[cali]

16. Wrong. There's an OP in GDP that does exactly that

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3545027

"Save the homosexual comment I think Ahmandinajad has made much
sense. He is obviously a very intelligent man and I like the fact that he is saying that we do not need to point bombs and act aggressively to achieve peace. And that that behavior is counterproductive to peace.

Either he is full of shit or I have just gained a lot of respect for that man. (I reserve the right to learn new information and change my opinion though).

Nothing good can happen when the US acts like a bully. Most of us do not want our country to act like a bully. Unfortunately a few, the few who have the ability..have been acting like bullies.

I really believe that I am looking at a man who seems sincere.

I did not know he was also a professor at university. He values science and discussion.

And I love the swats he has taken against the * administration. He says exactly what many of us think. If he is so right about this administration maybe he is speaking truth about other things."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. Link it.

You linked to a guy that says "save the homosexual comment."

[cali]

19. Read the thread and if you don't

see the embrace of Ahmadinejad in the OP, you're not too astute.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. Then you should be able to link it.

[BlooInBloo]

13. To the element among us that eats the petrified heads of raped iguanas...

.... I hope you've learned your lesson.

[The Night Owl]

18. Lesson learned!

From now on, I eat only Tootsie Pops... and in 3 bites.

[BlooInBloo]

20. Well there you go. :)

[Swamp Rat]

14. Rumsfeld posts here?