European Morality? We should look at what our allies do rather than say.

In other words, no one should write about anything except what a hard time Slobo is getting. Slobo's trial is the most important event in the whole universe and people who don't talk about it all the time are covering up. Slobo is suffering the worst injustice ever inflicted on a Christian martyr, and yet everyone else is obsessed by trivia like terrorism and US sovereignty. If someone chooses to write a column about something besides Slobo's Woes, it only shows how corrupt they are. History has been suspended until Slobo is vindicated.

There is no point in arguing with an obsessive, so let me just make myself clear: I don't give a d*mn what happens to Slobo. I don't want to hear about Slobo. History has moved on. Slobo has had his fifteen minutes of infamy, and now is basically moral and political litter that needs to be cleaned up somehow with the least possible interruption of important business.

That's why it's fine to leave him to the Euros, who have also chosen to be largely irrelevant to the real world. Let 'em hang him (woops, they're too refined for that), acquit him, or sentence him to watch Swedish art films 24-7 for the rest of his life. It doesn't much matter. If they commit an injustice, either by convicting him or letting him go, that's unfortunate, but not full of consequences in the big picture.

I have no particular brief for the Kosovo intervention, but that doesn't make Slobo anything other than a has-been Commu-fascist bully-boy whose only possible remaining contribution to history is to provide a cautionary example to others by his ignominious end.

Must be Slobo-time, ALL the time according to his duckiness.

No, I never said that, my beef is that Uncle Sam is paying for this travestry of 'justice' being intentional administered in 'de facto' secrecy.

The facts of the Balkan fiasco were contrived, now they are being 'unraveled' by Milosevics' defence. NRO, as part of the media which 'aided' NATO and now the UN, can't stand up to the 'scrutiny' that must come.

IMO the Balkans is a battle area with 50,000 foreign troops that are not focused on the 'problem'. We need to back up and make this right.

Then of course duckln by his own statement agrees with Chomsky and Robert Fisk that America is not a civilized and humane country, so it may be that he is just on the other side.

Not so, this is demonizing at the level of noted Democrats. For the record I believe 'America is a civilized and humane country', and more, But but not all its' people are.

A more important adjective is a 'truthfull' country, with a 'free press', which is the pillar of it all. Unfortunately NRO falls short despite the talent they claim.

One more point: a free press is, among other things, one that doesn't have to talk endlessly about Slobo, even though you want it to. You want to rave about Slobo, get a blog and rave on. You're free to do that, I'm free not to read it, and NR is free to say anything it wants about Slobo, or for that matter, nothing at all.

That's a free press, and if you don't think there's any difference between that and Saudi Arabia, well, I'm sure the nurse will be bringing your medication soon.

That's a free press

Granted, a comparison cannot be made with the Saudis. We do have a 'free press', big media, for those who run it. On the micro level its also free for those who run it. The first is atrociously filtering and fabricating news in unison. The 2nd is filtering from a different perspective.

It takes ,FR, the only 'free press', to point out the shortcomongs of both.

one that doesn't have to talk endlessly about SloboYou must be saying that tongue in cheek. It was endless during the 'misinformation' phase, but now it's nada. What ever happened to the peoples right to know?

Did you, by chance notice, I don't resort to personnel putdowns.

one that doesn't have to talk endlessly about Slobo You must be saying that tongue in cheek. It was endless during the 'misinformation' phase, but now it's nada. What ever happened to the peoples right to know?

The full sentence was: One more point: a free press is, among other things, one that doesn't have to talk endlessly about Slobo, even though you want it to

The point was that a free press doesn't have to share your priorities. But this is just one more example of the care and attention (sarcasm) with which you read, already evident in your bizarre misinterpretations of Hanson's article, which I have discussed in previous posts.

"The people's right to know" as you present it is just another way of saying: "NR is no good if it doesn't write about what I want it to write about." So we're right where we started.

This discussion is obviously doing you no good, and it is certainly unrewarding for me. As far as I'm concerned, this concludes it. Feel free to have the last word.

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