tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post9164246016582688769..comments2023-10-28T07:30:04.147-04:00Comments on Human Voices: What's your kid worth?Capt. Fogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post-37878094222632941342007-04-15T22:22:00.000-04:002007-04-15T22:22:00.000-04:00That unfortunate phrase "pro-life" is one of the m...That unfortunate phrase "pro-life" is one of the most cynical euphemisms of our times. If it means anything at all it means authoritarianism; it means the authorities can tell you whose life is worth anything and how much. <BR/><BR/>It doesn't look like anyone's life is worth a lot if it stands in the way of Bush's ambition.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post-6385850151576278782007-04-15T20:58:00.000-04:002007-04-15T20:58:00.000-04:00Is it pro-life to create a system to monetarily va...Is it pro-life to create a system to monetarily value lives?Intellectual Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01436312941542559044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post-76656876512348208042007-04-14T08:21:00.000-04:002007-04-14T08:21:00.000-04:00Wow! praise is always welcome, even if undeserved....Wow! praise is always welcome, even if undeserved. But you're right, "trigger happy" was a bad choice of words and I really took no offense at your comment.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post-77796869510851935402007-04-13T22:09:00.000-04:002007-04-13T22:09:00.000-04:00Capt Fogg:You know, I've re-read what I initally w...Capt Fogg:<BR/><BR/>You know, I've re-read what I initally wrote a couple of times. I probably respect the integrity of no other blog more than I do this one. I mean that honestly. I knew what you were trying to say, and I still didn't follow my own basic rule of walking around the block before responding to something that empassions me.<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry for my preachy, accusatory tone - I should also have approached that differently. To me, you add such a wealth of perspective and common sense, that I'd really hate to lose that. I don't think it rises to the level of a cheap shot, but I should have engaged you differently.<BR/><BR/>I have enormous respect for you and your ideas, and while you stand by what you said, and I too stand by what I meant, I wish I had responded with the benefit of a few minutes more consideration. That's all.d.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08723367478934978210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post-41410277714809764282007-04-13T14:07:00.000-04:002007-04-13T14:07:00.000-04:00I could not agree with you more!Throw the Virginia...I could not agree with you more!<BR/>Throw the Virginia based Peruvian mercenaries into the mix and what have we got over there? I cannot wrap my head around the magnitude of this crime.d.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08723367478934978210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post-44742005385436392902007-04-13T13:03:00.000-04:002007-04-13T13:03:00.000-04:00Perhaps a bad choice of words. An itchy trigger fi...Perhaps a bad choice of words. An itchy trigger finger isn't proof of malice and I attribute it mostly to fear and panic too. It doesn't help though that we're putting more marginal people and felons over there.<BR/><BR/>Once again we're in an occupation where you don't know who wants you dead and who doesn't because it isn't a war with uniformed troops. It's enough to make anyone paranoid.<BR/><BR/>We don't belong there and doubly so if we put Bush's plan ahead of the lives and welfare of the people. Whether the future is a dictatorship, secular or religious or some kind of republic is less important to the Iraqis than their children's lives and their own survival. We're not going to sell them our ideas by killing their kids.<BR/><BR/>But Oedipus was a MF by accident. Bush is one by nature.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15168595.post-27321756684254310762007-04-13T12:21:00.000-04:002007-04-13T12:21:00.000-04:00I take your larger point, but I think there's a be...I take your larger point, but I think there's a better way to describe the soldiers than "trigger-happy troops." I think they're battle worn and shell-shocked and homesick and very, very afraid. Yes the outcome is the same tragic one, but you make it sound like they're having fun. I'm quite sure they are not.<BR/><BR/>I hope you'll watch the "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib", if you haven't already, where former soldiers talk about the horror of events that they themselves participated in, obviously struggling to come to grips with it. Their frontal lobes aren't fully developed yet, and they are every bit as much victims of Mr. Bush's murderous, evil lies as other victims over there. I really believe that.<BR/><BR/>On another matter, I don't subscribe to the NY Times, so I don't get to read Maureen Dowd any longer, but I fully buy into her "Oedipal" explanation of GW Bush's deadly pathology. I don't think it would make any difference if he had to explain anything directly to the Iraqis -- he's dangerously deranged and wouldn't lose a wink of sleep over the event, I'm convinced.d.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08723367478934978210noreply@blogger.com