skialethia's Comments (617)

“What does this have to do with the immoral acts of intensifying combat where there is no imminent threat not even close, or k!lling hundreds of civilians with dr0nes?”

“She definitely cleaned his clock! She rocks big time!”

“Yes, since Bush bragged about having a direct line with God to consult with him on foreign policy matters.”

“Abbas is giving Isarel everything they want right now as far as security is concerned to negotiate the two-state solution while there have been no incidents against Israelis for almost a year, Palestinians have suffered violent acts at the hands of the settlers, and meanwhile Israel is giving zero in return!”

“Obama reminds me of British Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in "Bridge on the River Kwai" who builds the "perfect" bridge for the enemy and we are U.S. Navy Cmdr. Shears (William Holden) and company who are forced into the ironic and challenging dilemma of having to destroy the former ally’s warped work of art.

I fear that Obama will end up like Col. Nicholson one day, who upon witnessing Shears d y ing at his feet, finally comes to his senses and exclaims: “What have I done!”

I hope this analogy makes clear the insanity that lies in any moral defense of war. Obama built the perfect morally-ambiguous bridge to nowhere with his brilliant defense for war forcing us to challenge his conscience, oppose him and demolish his cleverly-crafted case.”

“Obama is wrong to go out of his way to make a brilliant yet distorted case for war by exploiting the Nobel Peace Prize and the timeliness of the prestigious event and by using the life-struggle and words of MLK, who was diametrically opposed to any form of vi0lence in the achievement of peace, just to make peace with his own conscience and gain universal approval for his war. In doing so with so much “sophistication”, he puts us in the unenviable and almost unwinnable position of having to oppose him and discredit and demolish his cleverly-worded argument.

He cannot seriously believe that our acquiescence will make his preposterous theory, that if war equals peace it therefore must be just or that if war is just it will equal peace any truer. His premise defies all reason, humanity and conscious morality. War is a b east with many disguises: Commun ism, fa scism, fundamentalism etc. If we feed this b east it will only mutate into another form and come back begging for more lives and destruction and we will never be free of it! Obama’s “Nobel” closing argument for war is far too calculating for it not to raise serious doubt and offend the conscience of all who understand the true meaning of peace.

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“"uncorrected" post. Please see the one above.”

“Reaperwo: (In answer to your Katrina Vanden Heuvel post)

Yes it is "also" our responsibility to effect change, but Obama doesn't have to make such a brilliant yet distorted case for war by exploiting the Nobel Peace Prize and that timely, prestigious moment and use the achievements and words of MLK who was diametrically opposed to any form of vi0lence to achieve peace. In doing so with so much eloquence, he puts us in the almost unwinnable position of having to discredit him and demolish his cleverly-worded argument. If he really believed that our participation is fundamental to defy and change the status quo then he wouldn't have made such a glowing case for war.

Obama reminds me of British Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in "Bridge on the River Kwai" who builds the "perfect" bridge for the enemy and we are U.S. Navy Cmdr. Shears (William Holden) and company who are forced into the ironic and challenging dilemma of having to destroy the former's warped work of art.

I fear that Obama will end up like Col. Nicholson who upon witnessing Shears d y ing at his feet finally comes to his senses and exclaims: “What have I done!”

I hope this analogy makes clear the insanity that lies in any moral defense of war. Obama built the perfect bridge to nowhere with his brilliant defense of war forcing us to oppose him and demolish his clever-crafted case.”

“Reaperwo: (In answer to your Katrina Vanden Heuvel post)

Yes it is alos our responsibility to effect change, but Obama doesn't have to make such a brilliant yet distorted case for war by exploiting the Nobel Peace Prize and that timely, prestigious moment and use the achievements and words of MLK who was diametrically opposed to any form of vi0lence to achieve peace. In doing so with so much eloquence, he puts us in the almost unwinnable position of having to discredit him and demolish his cleverly-worded argument. If he really believed that our participation is fundamental to defy and change the status quo then he wouldn't have made such a glowing case for war.

Obama reminds me of British Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) in "Bridge on the River Kwai" who builds the "perfect" bridge for the enemy and we are U.S. Navy Cmdr. Shears (William Holden) and company who are forced into the ironic and challenging dilemma of having to destroy the former's warped work of art.

I fear that Obama will end up like Col. Nicholson who upon witnessing Shears d y ing at his feet finally comes to his senses and exclaims: “What have I done!”

I hope this analogy makes clear the insanity that lies in any moral defense of war. Obama built the perfect bridge to nowhere with his brilliant defense of war forcing us to oppose him and demolish his clever-crafted case.”

“Oh puhleez, members of Congress have been criticizing his lean to the right! He's not modifying his objective for them at all. He deceived us all, plain and simple!”

“Don't ask him, he didn't state this Conyers did, and you should check out the other comments Conyers has made on Obama. They are witty, insightful and very accurate.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2009/12/08/conyers/print.html”

“First, get rid of all the caps. Secondly, this is not at all like Bosnia and you are wrong, Clinton intervened in Kosovo "militarily", not Bosnia, and this situation is worlds apart from the Kosovo situation. We have been in Afghanistan for 8 years! The escalation is destined to intensify combat. Your whole statement is rife with inaccuracies.”

“Gee, I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that he hasn't really delivered yet on any of those "strategies" you mentioned, but on all the BIG issues he's gone in the same direction as Bush?

The criticism of Obama is definitely and absolutely justified.”

“Bush's successor.”

“Serious people do not let party affiliation get in the way of the truth and criticism of a policy that is really misguided.”

“Oh right, we should throw away lives and one trillion and hundreds of billions more on fulfilling his needs.”

“Oh, so now Obama is leading the charge of the "holy war against Islam"?

Thank you for sparing me the work of having to discredit your argument. You just did yourself a fabulous disfavor with this post.”

“What does it matter if Obama is doing one thing at gtmo for public consumption so he can keep doing the opposite at Bagram prison in secret?

Things are being done more hypocritically, and that's all the change I see. His decision to escalate in Afghanistan was guided by his flip-flop on the Iraq surge: "I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.” and "I think that there's no doubt that the vi0lence is down."

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/259435

His flip-flop on Iraq was the merely the beginning of his endorsement of Bush's Presidency and all previous criticism was just campaign rhetoric.

The first thing Obama did as President was appoint Gates, Petraeus, Mullen and McChrystal -- all Bush loyalists and you want us to believe he's not furthering a Neocon agenda??? Think again!”

“You are so deluded it hurts. People are dying because other people want to profit from perpetual war! Now if you want to know who's actually counting the money; it's definitely not me, not you or not the poster you replied to! We're the ones getting screvved! What part of that don't you get? Unless of course you have shares in the MIC other than a "human" investment which I pity because then you invested something priceless indeed in a total fabrication and illusory pursuit of an invisible enemy that seamlessly threads its way through one country after another while we dump trillions into war and leave behind one human disaster after another chasing them and neglect what we claim to cherish so much at home!”

“Good for you! Meanwhile there are many siding with me and increasingly aware of the deception. Obama should enjoy the trappings of his Presidency because he's going back to Chicago in 2012.”

“Absolutely false, Obama was known for his Liberal, progressive record. Check congresspedia, and he was decrying the wars, repressive policies, the trickle down economy and in 2003 was supporting single payer insurance, it's on video, so google it. He deceived us, took our money and now changed his tune.”

“He took all of us for the ride of our lives and for all the money we could contribute. He assured us over and over he would work for us...the people, not the MIC, or Wall Street or big insurance. He was running on a progressive record and he's on video supporting single payer, decrying the war and the "trickle down economy" and promising a trickle up economy, and instead he puts hawks on his cabinet and follows their advice, he refuses to regulate Wall St. and gives them a hand-out with no strings attached and he now goes silent on the public option.

He ran on a Liberal record and deceived us all.

"Golden mean" my eye! He capitulated on all the important issues!”

“How about Russ Feingold? I mean we have other choices and we need real change and not this bogus, phony change!”

“But he's done nothing to fight poverty in Africa! He's done nothing to fight poverty here! All I see is how he is furthering Bush's polices, and everyone sees it. You are still being deceived by the "other" Obama.”

“I think you give him too much credit for capitulating so easily to Wall Street and the "warmongers" and make an assumption that is hardly credible to me since it would be impossible to justify a repetition of what happened to JFK and even more impossible to hide.”