it is debate forum unless you get zotted :o)
Posted on 01/11/2005 9:54:32 AM PST by Yo-Land
Buh-bye!
"Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries."
FROM YOUR LINK...
name all 45 countries.
It's actually 45 papers.
Hideous, too.
The n00b must think we've never been exposed to him before.
There are no other great powers, they do not exist except in the mind of defeated and delusional Europeans and their cohorts liberals in the United States.
Only one Great Power, Only one Super Power, the United States of America.
There are no other great powers, they do not exist except in the mind of defeated and delusional Europeans and their cohorts liberals in the United States.
Only one Great Power, Only one Super Power, the United States of America.
Wordy-Blather ZOT!
Wow!
You mean Yo-Land hasn't been given the ZOT?
Is he not even worthy of the Viking Kittens?
Jack.
He got the ZOT. The Mod was just quiet about it.
Is it just my imagination or have the trolls been much more numerous since the 1st of the year?
Look, for example, at the bulk of this boring little summation. How much of it is about the terrorism he claims in the start is not that big a deal in the eyes of Those Who Know? If it isn't a threat then why does he feel compelled to dedicate this much effort to chronicling it?
The popular American belief that the United States has the right to go anywhere and attack anybody if it feels itself threatened - "we do not need a permission slip from the UN," as Vice-President Dick Cheney frequently puts it - predates 9/11, but it has been greatly strengthened by the rhetoric of the "war on terror."
It's a bit more than a "popular belief," actually - it's called the doctrine of self defense and it's specifically delineated within the charter of the United Nations. One would think Dyer would know this - well, let's be honest, he does, he simply doesn't think it applies to the United States, not only here, but anywhere. That's the problem with his approach to internationalism, it's the U.S. versus everybody else and he isn't interested in the fact that more nations participated on the ground in Gulf War II than Gulf War I. Presumably the latter was equally unjustified - he's said so elsewhere - despite its inception by an armed invasion of a defenseless Kuwait, also prohibited under the current UN charter. Dyer insists that the U.S. ignores the rules when convenient, but it is he who is doing the ignoring here, and he does it systematically.
Still, they publish him to paper over the giant intellectual cavities within the internationalist approach for idiots who cling to it against all available evidence. If he's hoping the world returns to the set of rules that gave us 9/11 and the Oil for Food scandal, he's got a long wait ahead.
Welcome? to FR.
Busy day?
"Ms. Dyer sure does take up a whole lot of space to say so very, very little."
"Actually, you have erred in two ways, the first being that Gwynne dyer is femal."
So Gwynne's a male. I wonder what Yo-Land thinks your second error is. I stopped reading the article after four or five paragraphs. So many words, so little said.
This land in My-Land
This land ain't Yo-Land
"Explain how Mr. Dyer is a liberal/Democrat, please."
Criminy! Didn't Yo-Land bother to read his own post?
"Does anyone have any thoughtful comments or legitimate debate here, or is this not a forum for that sort of thing?"
You have to pass the Zot test first. You failed.
"This land in My-Land
This land ain't Yo-Land"
ROTFLOL!
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