Comments on: The Left's Tone Deafness On Global Risk

National Review: How Ideology Has Distorted The Left's Perception Of Global Risk

[mnbrant]

Lets face it if the Jihadists win we can start an insurgency against them leading to a phyrric victory for them in that they will be car bombed themselves, there will be no petrol dollars funding them and they will be the ones that will be bled dry.

[sjc_1]

"The difference now is that they have money..."

That would be the money from filling all those SUV gas tanks, the same vehicles with the "Support the Troops" bumper stickers.

[parrot111]

It depends what you want. If you want to continue having an empire even if it comes at the expense of the common people than by all means spend as heavily as you want on the military. If you want to improve the everyday lives of your citizens, then you should bring all your troops home. This paranoid feeling that someone is going to invade because you don't have this or that is completely bogus because of the large reserve of nukes.

[noloyalisti]

To the right wing violent racist extremists like those that run the NRO, even moderate policy is "leftist". For example anything done in favor of workers, the poor or even middle class is anti-corporate and anti-American. These writers are some of the most twisted, slanted and clueless morons I have ever come across. The only thing that they actually accomplish is to embarrass themselves by sharing their obsolete and dangerous conservative "values".

[PVperson2]

Neo-cons call for unilateral war, preempted invasions, secret prisons, secret surveillance of the American public, torture of prisoners and they say the "left": has a warped view of the world, what morons.

[delfmast]

WastingtonDC: Aside from the continued decline of America, preached, poised, and prayed for, by the Mess(iah)'s official NYT campaign staff, for eight years. Aside from the stealthy execution of American decline now being driven by the administration's Friends of Blago, with the insulting appointment of a campaign finance genius crony to be ambassador to UK. And, aside from a President announcing he will sign a sensible, and constitutionally sound second amendment ruling even though it has a ruinous credit card interest bill attached to it, or because of all of the above, both left and right extremists chortling about daily developments, or the lack of them, should be careful what they wish for. In America's conservative Republic, the NYT, WP, BG, and 97 percent of the US MSM media are, thankfully, doomed to bankruptcy, but not, unfortunately, because of the perfected, and widely accepted political fact/reason, that they are 97% liberal hacks, working as paid, or unpaid Obama campaign staff, and water carriers for the feckless disloyal congressional majority, all committed to the death of individual liberty, on planet earth, but because their stockholders/ family owners/and board members hire and retain incompetent business managers. The MSM, never mainstream in my lifetime, and no longer rightly the media, will not, or cannot, adapt to the user generated, and more importantly, user commented/modified/approved content that rules our world internet anarchy, one that mirrors the first two centuries of our upstart American Republic. While the clueless NYT hacks will continue their slavish preaching of American decline, they, and America at large, have not before experienced a hardened political ward heeler, able and wiling to do anything, to enlarge the sphere of influence of the social fascist, i.e. mafia control that has ruled Chicago since prohibition, and allowed serious politicians to steal local and national elections with well tended cemeteries full of legally registered voters, for all of my life. Be afraid! This Mess(iah), like FDR before him, may be nearly as bright as even he thinks he is. The Friends of Blago will say anything to keep their paid welfare voter's block voting in line, while stealing any sensible ideas from any source, Islamic, Christian, any party, any creed, and executing them, all the while "going for it", to destroy the existing American Empire's leadership, (nuclear weapon delivery superiority) and the almighty US dollar, by devaluation/inflation through welfare spending that hardens their block of paid voters. Now, to our sorrow, a Democrat with the brains to co-opt the NRA, to simply obey the constitution's second amendment, thus raking in the unwary among the solid majority of gun owners in America, while gutting the rest of our constitution, wiping out our world leadership position, and destroying the dollar, by printing money to payoff their voter's and the unions, and drive us into an old Europe style mafia social fascism, that our upstart American conservative majority will not tolerate. While the Mess(iah) is certainly not as bright as NYT hacks and his cronies think he is, he is far far brighter than the stupid old white men (SOWM) who ran the solid conservative majority into the ditch, and set America up for the socialist death spiral that our liberal's intend to force us in to, and he is ten times as bright as we all thought. God help us!

[Razzl]

Talent was lelected in New Gingiches' freshman class of zealots in 1993 and seems not to have picked up on the shift in public mood against his "culture wars" style of name-calling politics. If he really wants to be taken seriously, then he would not go around accusing everyone who disagrees with him as being motivated only by "ideology" and making his case only in and to right-wing organs and think tanks. "Ever since Vietnam, the Left has distrusted American military power" pretty much sums up the time warp that his thinking, and the right's thinking is stuck in--the "left" that he keeps referring to, the left that exists in his imagination, are hippies and college students holding up copies of Mao's little red book as a way to tweak the militarist defense hawks as they lead us through the idiocy of Vietnam. Has Talent noticed that the "left" as he saw it hasn't existed in any form for about 30 years? The inability to see what is current and relevant in today's conditions is the problem which is killing conservatism, the cultural right, and the Republican party.

As to the substance of his arguments, his Vietnam and Cold-war era hawkish extremism is out of line with the sentiment on both right and left that the end of the Cold War was a suitable place to end our practice of being the world's policeman. The idea that we would always be able to fund the largest and most advanced military in the world is no longer valid in the face of the demographic realities taking place in China and India. Failing to withdraw sufficiently from that role is arguably the cause of the 9/11 attacks. Which lessons do we learn and which are men like Talent incapable of learning?

[creeper00]

imnho, you're misleading. While the Virginia-class submarines are designed to be able to operate in shallow water they are NOT limited to that. You told only half the story.

[ajjaxtheleast]

The tone deafness is a wash,,,,,

WE are as tone deaf as the repubs and the "what war crime?" dems,,
AND the news sites are tone deaf to the present bombings in
BAGHDAD that has killed over 40 and wounded 80 and the Kerkuk
bomings that killed eight American Sunni employees standing around
waiting for and chatting about what they will do with their salary when
in a few minutes they will get it from the payment window,,,

,,,they got but not from he payment window.

A bomb blast takes a bit more deafness to miss hearing than the
shuffling of finance priorities,,,dont you think?

[didserve]

Just for fun!

Stop all media articles written by AIPAC members and see how much coverage the Neocons get!

NRO take your duel passport holding staff and ship them back to the country of origin?