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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 03:55 AM Original message |
Politics is not war. |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 03:57 AM Response to Original message |
1. You're so pretty. |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 03:58 AM Response to Original message |
2. Have fun getting killed. |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. There is a difference between agressively attacking the rhetoric of the right... |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:06 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. I sympathize with that. |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 08:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
23. Can somebody cite some examples of Obama stooping to Rove's level? |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. That's an excellent point. |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Even though they are dead/gone, we must not change. Now we do the killing and we like it. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. "War is merely a continuation of politics," |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I think war is the break down of politics. Not the continuation. |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:04 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. War is the breakdown of diplomacy, not politics. |
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SleeplessInAlabama (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:13 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Diplomacy is the breakdown of ideals in the interest of politics n/t |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Oh god damn you and your philosophical logic. |
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SleeplessInAlabama (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. I like you anyway n/t |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 07:26 AM Response to Reply #7 |
21. Eh, who is it again that declares when there will be war? |
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Nickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. Absolutely. Now if we could only get people to re-read Clausewitz or better yet continue his work |
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Strong Atheist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:00 AM Response to Original message |
4. : |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:00 AM Response to Original message |
5. If our political opponents |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:03 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. The reality is not that we are at war. It's that we are being taunted by an ignorant opponent. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. i disagree that the party must respond in kind. clinton's popularity stayed |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:16 AM Response to Original message |
13. "Maybe I'm being naive." is the part of your post I agree with. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:49 AM Response to Original message |
16. More WWF than war |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 05:06 AM Response to Original message |
17. It didn't used to be... The scorched earth tactics were introduced by |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 05:43 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Then If You Know All That. . . |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 08:04 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Who me? |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Sorry, Anna. I Posted In The Wrong Place |
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Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:21 AM Response to Original message |
19. Make no mistake about it. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:42 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Frank Rich has an interesting description of the US |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
24. politics is application of power to control dispensation of goods and means. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
25. Then sit there while your interests get run over. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
30. Actually war has been the pursuit of poliical ends by other means |
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