Comments on: Cooking rice http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/07/3947 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/07/3947/comment-page-1#comment-29566 Michael Lonie Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:02:26 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/07/3947#comment-29566 He was pretty adamant about not allowing a genocide in Darfur too. Of course, nobody shouting for doing something about Darfur would accept the only rational thing to do to stop it, to wit overthrow the vicious Sudan Islamist government that ordered the genocide in the first place, or at least beat the crap out of them until they cry uncle and agree to stop their criminous activities. Suggest that to Mia Farrow and watch her recoil in horror. As to the Annapolic Conference, my take on the reasons for it is simpler. The Bush Administration is exhausted. Seven years of vicious partisan warfare against it, plus the stress of fighting a real war at the same time, have left it totally whacked out. All Bush has the strength to do now is carry on with the Iraq Campaign and, maybe, do something drastic about Iran before he leaves office. The result is that the purveyers of Conventional Wisdom have floated back to the top. Rice is as susceptible to the bureaucrats flogging CW as Powell was, it seems. And the most conventional of CW at Foggy Bottom is that we have to make the Arabs happy by leaning on Israel to get some kind of Israel-Palestinian Arab peace agreement. Where CW rules in foreign policy malevolent stupidity follows. That, I believe, is the genesis of this futile, false, posssibly disastrous conference. He was pretty adamant about not allowing a genocide in Darfur too. Of course, nobody shouting for doing something about Darfur would accept the only rational thing to do to stop it, to wit overthrow the vicious Sudan Islamist government that ordered the genocide in the first place, or at least beat the crap out of them until they cry uncle and agree to stop their criminous activities. Suggest that to Mia Farrow and watch her recoil in horror.

As to the Annapolic Conference, my take on the reasons for it is simpler. The Bush Administration is exhausted. Seven years of vicious partisan warfare against it, plus the stress of fighting a real war at the same time, have left it totally whacked out. All Bush has the strength to do now is carry on with the Iraq Campaign and, maybe, do something drastic about Iran before he leaves office.

The result is that the purveyers of Conventional Wisdom have floated back to the top. Rice is as susceptible to the bureaucrats flogging CW as Powell was, it seems. And the most conventional of CW at Foggy Bottom is that we have to make the Arabs happy by leaning on Israel to get some kind of Israel-Palestinian Arab peace agreement. Where CW rules in foreign policy malevolent stupidity follows. That, I believe, is the genesis of this futile, false, posssibly disastrous conference.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/07/3947/comment-page-1#comment-29553 Meryl Yourish Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:10:15 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/07/3947#comment-29553 I think the attack on Iran will take place after the November 2008 election. Assuming things stay pretty much the same until then. George W. Bush has been pretty adamant about refusing to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. I think the attack on Iran will take place after the November 2008 election. Assuming things stay pretty much the same until then.

George W. Bush has been pretty adamant about refusing to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.

]]> By: Sabba Hillel http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/07/3947/comment-page-1#comment-29552 Sabba Hillel Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:37:40 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/11/07/3947#comment-29552 Perhaps they do not intend to do anything about "Palestine" but are just pretending that is the subject so that they can actually have a <b>secret</b> agreement on Iran. This would come out when all of a sudden, everyone who was at the conference turns around and takes care of the problem. It is not a matter of bribery but a matter of not broadcasting it. Consider what the NY Times did to top secret anti-terrorist programs. Perhaps they do not intend to do anything about “Palestine” but are just pretending that is the subject so that they can actually have a secret agreement on Iran. This would come out when all of a sudden, everyone who was at the conference turns around and takes care of the problem. It is not a matter of bribery but a matter of not broadcasting it. Consider what the NY Times did to top secret anti-terrorist programs.

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