en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/296384 Comments by Glennd1 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/08/22/what-would-scottish-independence-mean-for-nato/#IDComment705947292 The imperial mindset seems like it will never recede. Declaring a bit of Scotland "sovereign", hmmm, seems to fly in the face of self-determination - or does that basic idea of legitimate govt just not seem as important compared to Birtains pretense at empire? Fyi, submarines can launch from lots of places and cruise undetected to their patrol areas - they have very, very long ranges. Trident missiles are ICBMs which can be launched from anywhere (hence "intercontinental" in the name) and reach a top speed of 13,000 mph. So, someone please tell me why this "deterrent" (to what I'm not sure) cannot be based elsewhere? This whole line of reasoning makes my BS detector hit 11. Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:51:27 +0000 http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/08/22/what-would-scottish-independence-mean-for-nato/#IDComment705947292 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/rand-pauls-stand-against-arming-islamist-syrian-rebels/#IDComment650629556 Don't you dare try and claim patriotism against me while you flack for another country - who do you think you are? Israel is not the U.S. Repeat after me: Israel is not the U.S. Repeat after me: Israel is not the U.S. As for your threats, many patriots like me would oppose going to war over Israel - are you familiar with the liberty movement? You call yourself a patriot, yet you want to spend our lives and treasure on a country that we have no moral obligation or strategic reason to protect. You are a traitor to your own country because you believe the lies that were pumped into you long ago. Do you remember what our founders said about "entangling alliances"? Do you realize how un-American supporting a country half way around the world is? How provocative? Wake up. I don't claim we don't have big problems with Muslims. I claim defending Israel is not something the U.S. should do. Big difference, you thuggish nitwit. You have nowhere near as much support as you think as the truth about Israels crimes becomes more and more well known. And everything I said above is true - you can't contravene a bit of it. Sun, 26 May 2013 23:15:26 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/rand-pauls-stand-against-arming-islamist-syrian-rebels/#IDComment650629556 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/rand-pauls-stand-against-arming-islamist-syrian-rebels/#IDComment650507009 I just read your stupid interview - which had nothing to do with the article above - and the litany of lies it presented up front about Jews always living in Palestine and how it was no big deal to start a country there and ethnically cleanse 650,000 Arab Muslims from their homes. You are a liar, at a very basic level. In 1890 - just before the launch of the political Zionist movement, this is the population breakdown for Palestine. 43,000 Jews. 57,000 Christians. 432,000 Muslims. By 1947 there are 630,000 Jews in Palestine. If you don't call that an invasion than I don't know what is. The last time the Jews had anything but a small minority population in Palestine was the 1st century ce. How that adds up to giving Jews a license to build a nation in Palestine I'll never know. I only care because for years I was told that the Jews were the victims. And then I read the real history and was shocked. I had been told for decades that we "Had" to support Israel. I began to ask why? I got no good answers other than mumbling about alliances (it's a tautology to tell me they are an ally because they are an ally) and that they are a democracy. We have other allies in the region and being a democracy didn't give them the right to essentially invade, colonize and appropriate the land of others. Most here don't know that the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate for Palestine and the U.N. partition resolution all stipulated specifically that the indigenous people's living in Palestine would not be forced from their homes or discriminated against. And then the Zionists not only cleansed their territory of big numbers of Arab Muslims, they also took 20% more territory. They had to stop their campaign due to international outrage, but managed to create the Jewish majority state they sought all along - in the only way possible. Without the ethnic cleansing, a majority Jewish state is not possible and Zionists had made clear for years this was their objective. What's most pathetic is that Americans know so little about the real facts. Like that the U.S. supported the U.N. resolution demanding the "right of return" for Palestinians in '49 because the Zionist's actions in Palesting were obviously a heinous violation of human rights. Albert Einstein thought so too and publicly called the radical Zionists engaging in these horrors "Nazis". That's right, no less a prominent Jew than Albert freaking Einstein called his fellow Jews "Nazis" for what they were doing. I don't say that - he did. The director of the newly formed CIA begged Truman not to support the resolution, predicting it would result in "endless war". We only signed the British Mandate from the League of Nations with a codicil added, stipulating that we would not use military force to enforce the borders established. In fact, reflexive support for Israel in the U.S. doesn't emerge until a generation later and after substantial Israeli official suppression of the truth. And just to be clear, my last sentence isn't hyperbole - the Israeli govt has admitted it lied to its own people and the world about what it did in Palestine in '48. After learning all this, I cannot understand why we support Israel. And now I watch as the Zionists have merged their cause with our fight with the Jihadis (brought on in part by our support of Israel). It's really too much to sit still for. Again, I would not care if I wasn't told that the U.S. must support Israel. I see no moral or strategic reason to do so. If we want to offer safety to Jews - which I support as I'm actually a bit of a Jew-lover, which is why I giggle when people call me an anti-semite - we can offer political asylum here in the U.S.. They are a great people who bring much to U.S. society and can live here relatively unmolested. It would be good for us and them, but the current approach of guaranteeing the blood-soaked Zionist project is absurd. And based on the kind of lies you tell. Anti-Zionist and anti-Islamist - that's the only position that makes sense for the United States. Okay, everyone pile on and call me an anti-semite or Islamist sympathizer, lol. Sigh, I only hope to reach one of you. Just one. Sun, 26 May 2013 17:57:09 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/rand-pauls-stand-against-arming-islamist-syrian-rebels/#IDComment650507009 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/scandal-plagued-dhs-agency-to-oversee-amnesty/#IDComment644549547 This is what the beginning of the end looks like. Things come apart much more quickly than they come together, and what we are witnessing is nothing short of a collective madness by the left. I've come to the conclusion that Marxism and Progressivism (which accepts cultural marxist critiques of society as ground truths) are essentially conspiracy theories. They make up bogey men who press material or other advantages to control all of society with magical ideas like "privilege" and "patriarchy", turning what in some cases may be interesting observations into axioms. They then follow them to their logical extremes, as though they are a truth like gravity is truth. They are impervious to reason and facts, even when caught red handed. Just watch these guys face congress or the press - the lack of honesty and candor, the overall slipperiness and arrogance - it's nothing short of astounding. I dare any leftist show a Bush administration behaving so. Holder's testimony yesterday was a national disgrace. I smell a big media frenzy coming this weekend. Watch for some big network(s) to go nuclear over the testimony from yesterday and today. I think the MSM will fry him for a moment, and then of course let him off the hook. But I bet the Sunday talk shows will be fun this weekend. I wouldn't be surprised to see some Democrat defectors. Fri, 17 May 2013 19:38:27 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/volpe/scandal-plagued-dhs-agency-to-oversee-amnesty/#IDComment644549547 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/what-did-obama-know-and-when-did-he-knew-it/#IDComment640869174 The entire military and CIA timeline have to be looked at. Some of it may be classified, but the Republicans need to get sworn testimony from every decision maker in the chain of command over the use of force. CIA has it's own forces and were apparently some meaningful way responsible for the consulate's security. One of the things that mystifies me is the origin of the drone that was launched within 30 mins. Who ordered that? Why was it only 4.5 hours after the event began that NCMC authority was given to release special forces? Why was authority not given immediately? Also why did the CIF team on Croatia go elsewhere to "stage"? According to a specforces operator interviewed anonymously on Fox that CIF could have been wheels up heading to Benghazi within 30 mins of the initial report. None of this aspect of things makes any sense. The Republicans will have to go very deep to get to the bottom of this. Stay the course. Sun, 12 May 2013 20:28:03 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/what-did-obama-know-and-when-did-he-knew-it/#IDComment640869174 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment637157211 I source a Benny Morris presentation at the LSE in London about 8 months ago in which he stated unequivocally that the Israelis would not have been able to sand up a military or a state without British support. There is nothing leftist about it. I'm not a leftist. I'm an old school conservative with libertarian leanings. I don't hate the Brits or Jews or Israelis. I just think Zionism is a disaster for all concerned. Tue, 7 May 2013 17:33:05 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment637157211 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/norwegians-outsiders-in-their-own-country/#IDComment636418519 Great facts and insights, thanks for this Robin! Mon, 6 May 2013 20:05:29 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/norwegians-outsiders-in-their-own-country/#IDComment636418519 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636412423 How would I be embarrassed by your ability to draw a map of the region? Or knowing how extensive our presence is in the region? But you see the real problem is that most of you wouldn't be here because you'd realize how much Zionist propaganda FrontPage spews. It's really too bad because much of what it covers is important and spot on. Mon, 6 May 2013 19:55:53 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636412423 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636407561 One wonder, can you even do basic math? How many Israelis? 7.7 million. How many Arabs and Muslims surround them? Hundreds of millions. Zionists love to brag about their military prowess, but in fact if the Brits hadn't been arming them to the teeth for a long time before 1948, they would never have been able to stand up their nation. In '48 Jordan stayed on the sidelines, and Israel faced very disorganized opposition, but miraculously sprang to life as a nation with a 40,000 man strong army, amored capability, and an air force. All due to the Brits. After '67, we have guaranteed Israel's security. She doesn't survive till now without U.S. aid aid and implicit security guarantee. You do realize that the surrounding countries will win a war against Israel eventually if we stay out of it, yes? Our whole strategy of division in the region has been to prevent an alliance of factions in the mideast to join together to eliminate Israel. But that has blown up in our faces. Mon, 6 May 2013 19:48:05 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636407561 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636330777 What, Danny, you only jump in when I have something nice to say? Mon, 6 May 2013 17:51:29 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636330777 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636329675 Are you really as stupid as your comment seems? Our government isn't here to protect Ireland (which it didn't) or Israel, which it has. Does that basic comparison not even get through to you? I wonder, could you even draw a map of the mideast? Better yet, what achievable outcome does the U.S. seek in the region and how do our current policies bring us towards that goal? I have wake up call for you. The Arabs and the Muslims aren't going to give up to Israel. 65 yrs later and still going strong. And why should they? Israel ethnically cleansed 650,000 of them from their homes and stole their land, along with every other earthly possession they could not carry. It will be an endless conflict until one side or the other wins. In the meantime, I don't want an ounce of our energy or any of our money to go there as it's just more waste. Mon, 6 May 2013 17:49:44 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636329675 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636294056 Then go duke it out on your own. My people - the Irish - have had to deal with reality and make a peace that looks forward. I didn't ask you or the U.S. govt to back the Irish, yet they had much better and more recent land claims against the British. Do the same for your people. I don't feel any comradeship with Israelis anymore than I do the Taiwanese or South Koreans. Let them fend for themselves it will have no bearing on our country or our prosperity. Last time I checked that was the purpose of our national govt - to look out for our interests. Not some humanitarian escapade based on the biases or politics of the current inhabitant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Mon, 6 May 2013 16:48:54 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636294056 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636291014 Oh, now I get it. Since we fought the Barbary Pirates 200+ years ago, that's why we are there today. Please, do explain how that invites our overthrow of Moussadegh. Please, I'm all ears. Mon, 6 May 2013 16:43:57 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636291014 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/why-captain-america-hates-me/#IDComment636273727 Setting aside the fact that you cannot spell properly (hypocrisy), it seems you don't deny that this moron is indeed spreading hate filled invective. Did you go to that slimy website he linked? He's a bigoted lowlife. Is that the company you keep? Mon, 6 May 2013 16:13:44 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/why-captain-america-hates-me/#IDComment636273727 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636173886 Greenfield reverts to form here, how sad. All you rabid nationalists and Zionists out there need to stop and ask yourself one question. What are we doing in the mideast to begin with? I bet most of you dingbats couldn't even draw a map of the region, no less locate the massive U.S. military, intelligence, diplomatic and NGO presence in the region. Greenfield seems to claim that we are retreating from the region when all I can see is us deepening our entrenchment in their conflicts. What's really happening is that the West imposed this nation state order on the region in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman empire and it's falling apart. Try reading some history about the past 100 years of this region - and you will laugh at the ridiculous point of view in this article. Unfortunately, Greenfield is a Zionist first so he believes that the U.S. is morally correct in helping the Zionists maintain their state in Palestine. Me? I could care less. Offer all Jews asylum here as they are persecuted in the world. And then be done with the entire region. We don't even rely on them for oil - that's the European's and Asia's problem. Let them solve it. There is only downside for us being so involved. Mon, 6 May 2013 13:20:09 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/how-obama-lost-his-big-muslim-brotherhood-gamble/#IDComment636173886 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/why-captain-america-hates-me/#IDComment636168213 Shapiro wants to ignore the vicious, homophobes who do exist out there - like yourself and the hate filled website you linked. What you don't realize is that you are as big a threat to my liberty as the leftists. Do the entire world a favor and don't reproduce or vote ever again. Mon, 6 May 2013 13:10:35 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/why-captain-america-hates-me/#IDComment636168213 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/the-muslim-world-is-a-world-where-the-bad-guy-won/#IDComment634588291 And you wonder why people call you a racist? Are you really dismissing the entire Muslim world, including it's culture and history of empire as "savage"? This is same tact that bigoted cur Pamela Geller uses - her game is to get Americans to conflate Zionism's struggle to conquer and occupy a chunk of Palestine with the Islamism that is rising against us. But that's nonsense. Backing Israel after '67 was the biggest mistake we've ever made as a nation. Most Americans don't know that the U.S. was highly critical of Israel's ethnic cleansing of 650,000+ Arab Muslims from their homes back in '48. In fact, the U.S. signed the first U.N resolution demanding the "right of return" for those Palestinians. Your bundling of everything together and then reducing Muslims to savages is classic propaganda. Someone once said you are former Mossad, what, are you just creating red meat for the trolls? Fri, 3 May 2013 21:42:56 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/the-muslim-world-is-a-world-where-the-bad-guy-won/#IDComment634588291 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/newsweek-owner-i-wish-i-hadnt-bought-newsweek/#IDComment631461548 I have a crazy suggestion - why don't they try doing real, deep news? Some investigative journalism. Take on some of the big issues that the MSM won't touch, don't they understand that the non-partisan people are dying for real news? For real reporting? I'm old enough to remember an old joke that the punch line to was "you know you're having a really bad day when you show up at work and a 60 minutes news crew is outside your office". Who's afraid of them now? Who's afraid of being exposed? Who's turning up the screws on this govt? Newsweek could actually start doing real news again. Just a crazy thought... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:54:35 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/newsweek-owner-i-wish-i-hadnt-bought-newsweek/#IDComment631461548 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-premature-mirandizing-of-a-terrorist/#IDComment631365542 Another great article by Greenfield. Lots of research and context and relevant legal history. Thanks! Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:37:46 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-premature-mirandizing-of-a-terrorist/#IDComment631365542 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/calling-islam-islam/#IDComment628831386 This is such a superficial history of Islam. I'll just focus on one aspect of Islam that I found valuable to understand. Mr. Fawstin blithely asserts that Islam is a political ideology, and that politics and Islam are inseparable but doesn't tell you why. Mohammed was the first leader to ever unite the Arab tribes. His conquests were bloody but they were also bloody times. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an apologists for the Jihadis, Islamists, Salafists - but I do believe there are more than a few secular Muslims who don't adhere to that. So, I don't mind distinguishing. I have no problem pointing ou the history and quoting scripture, but there is much more to Islam than just the Koran. It has been a driving force in those societies for 1300 years, and the history is complex. There have been times and sects of moderation. We are not in a moderating phase, I agree. But I think the level of hysteria projected by this article and the reduction of Islam to just its bloodymindedness is very damaging to our analysis of what's what. Our opposition thinks we are just as evil as we do them. Let me ask this author what he wants us to do? What would victory over Islam be to him? Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:29:32 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/calling-islam-islam/#IDComment628831386