tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post3676381160137135064..comments2024-03-16T00:26:41.051-04:00Comments on Scaramouche: Achtung! The Spirit of Hitler and His Final Solution for the 'Jewish Problem' Live On In 'Arab Spring-y' Egyptscaramouchehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-30369570179073623692011-05-29T18:18:12.638-04:002011-05-29T18:18:12.638-04:00Damn! Only good people disappear at sea never to ...Damn! Only good people disappear at sea never to be heard from again!Ms. Doubt49https://www.blogger.com/profile/03070412499571258211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-48252700260555049152011-05-29T13:51:27.506-04:002011-05-29T13:51:27.506-04:00Meant to type way to go, not "way to way.&quo...Meant to type way to go, not "way to way." My head thinketh one thing but my digits typeth another.scaramouchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-43711899945154172512011-05-29T13:49:10.305-04:002011-05-29T13:49:10.305-04:00Ms. D.49--Now, if only we can get him to stop fund...Ms. D.49--Now, if only we can get him to stop funding Palestine House and Gaza Boat-floating "Alternatives"...scaramouchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-55629703886774614362011-05-29T13:47:39.164-04:002011-05-29T13:47:39.164-04:00CP--Actually, Sadat was a devout Muslim to the bit...CP--Actually, Sadat was a devout Muslim to the bitter end. That said, I'm torn about Israel giving back the Sinai. On the one hand, it let to 30 years of "peace" (a cold peace, granted, but a peace nonetheless.) On the other hand, it put the notion in peoples' heads that "land for peace" was the way to way, and that presuming Israel could be carved up in just the right way to satisfy the Palestinians, peace was attainable. We're still living with the results of that false line of thinking (false because Israel's size was never the issue; Israel's existence was--and is)--Obama and and other do-badders determined to make "peace" no matter what.scaramouchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04380374512378209528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-83593945005641421882011-05-29T12:22:57.269-04:002011-05-29T12:22:57.269-04:00oh wait! scratch previous post... Harper will not...oh wait! scratch previous post... Harper will not be aiding huge funds to Egypt and Tunisia.Ms. Doubt49https://www.blogger.com/profile/03070412499571258211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-658764073523675812011-05-29T12:20:11.071-04:002011-05-29T12:20:11.071-04:00Anger and protests against our own government for ...Anger and protests against our own government for committment to fund Egypt and Tunisa. Somebody better sit down with Harper and educate the man on this issue.Ms. Doubt49https://www.blogger.com/profile/03070412499571258211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6573533210099052368.post-53376853124530092572011-05-29T09:00:49.877-04:002011-05-29T09:00:49.877-04:00I always thought that Israel made a gigantic mista...I always thought that Israel made a gigantic mistake by trading land--the Sinai, a substantial buffer against invasion--for peace--a promise on paper, signed by people whose religious tenets allow them to practice _taquiyya_ vis-à-vis nonbelievers. <br /><br />Actually, I think that Sadat was not being duplicitous when he signed the peace treaty with Israel. He was a secularist nationalist on the model of Nasser, and though I have no doubt he did not very much like Jews--after all, the Nasserites gave refuge to thousands of Nazis after WWII--he saw that a lasting peace with Israel would be in Egypt's national interest (and he probably could not begin to imagine a creature like Obama ever occupying the U. S. presidency; Nixon, after all, had stripped U. S. army armories in Germany to re-supply Israel during the Yom Kippur War). The problem is that, when a country signs a treaty with another sovereign entity, the long-term reliability of the contract is determined not by the intent of the ruler who signs, but by the character of his society. The real guarantee that Canadians have that the U. S. won't invade them is not the accords agreeing on the present border, but the Anglo-Saxon respect for the law and rights of sovereignty . . . of course, with the progressive dissolution of the Puritan, Anglo-Saxon character of American society, maybe Canadians shouldn't be _too_ sanguine about the security of their southern border.Carlos Pererahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253355647824872032noreply@blogger.com