Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 26 September 2004

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Garry Mauro, previous debate opponents of Sen. John Kerry and President Bush.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gen. John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL); Stuart Stevens, Bush-Cheney media consultant.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Secretary of State Colin Powell; Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Joseph Biden (D-DE); former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Albright; Mahdi Obeidi, scientist and creator of Iraq's centrifuge; David Kay, former chief U.S. weapons inspector; Robert Gallucci, former U.N. weapons inspector.

The Chris Matthews Show (Various Channels): Norah O'Donnell, NBC News; Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune; Maria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC; and Cokie Roberts, ABC News.

CSPAN: Women Voters in the 2004 Election, featuring Ann Lewis, Chair, Democratic National Committee, Women's Vote Center and Christine Iverson, Press Secretary, Republican National Committee.

[MEG33]

#260..17th century

[MEG33]

#260 concerning 17th century religious wars...

[BamaDi]

They've been showing "the look" all day on fox, et al....love it! I even had a friend come to dinner tonight who's pure democRAT, and she even was talking about "the look" and how it los the election for that jerk! :~>

[bvw]

Thanks. Now that Macbee has brought it up, I comes to my own mind that the root and tipping-point cause of nigh all wars is religious. In our American pedogogical tradition -- up until recent decades -- they used to refer to the "causes of war" -- implying a large number, and refer to those most pivotal most forcing of war as the "proximal" cause of war.

Bosh! Pish posh and bosh! I says now. What makes people willing to risk life, limb and property -- to die for a cause? In large number, over longish, at-the-time-indeterminate periods.

Nothing less than "religion". Their deep internal beliefs.

Look to that religious impulse, marshalled in a nation, in a region, in a group -- there you find by my hypothesis the proximal, the triggering and the sustaining cause of war.

It's no easy thing for us moderns to look into that aspect -- even though it is fundamental, intrinsic and without it no cause may be found but a plethora of nonsense.

What say, is the religious founding of the Viet Nam War?

[MEG33]

I was actually only providing information about the religious wars of the 17th century...I am no historian.

[bvw]

There are no historians. The Bastille has been liberated!