The Opinionated Bastard

Good god it is too hard to read much of that Horowitz. Anyway, he is simply a reactionary statist, very simply put. His logic follws a simple system, all state power and violence is good, all dissent from such is evil, thus the “secular left” (whatever that is) is with the fundamentlaist muslims to destroy america.

What about when the US was allied to the mujahadeen in the 1980s.???? The logic would follow from the reactionary statist that in the 80s those who dissented from US alliances with Bin laden types would be anti-american. ti is totalitarian logic, the ever circulating goal post that never sits still.

But anyway, the religion is very simple..state=good, dissent= bad. Ive seen horowitz speak, what a goof, you can sense his resentment and hateful sentiments…just like savage, coulter, hannity, limbaugh, medved, etc…all pillars of virtuous americanhood indeed.

ernie

See, I thought the guy he was talking to was even worse. Like I said, normally I would think someone like him was a nutjob, but the guy he was paired with from the left was even nuttier.

Anyways, as far as the US “alliance” with the mujahadeen in the 80’s, I think the real problem there was that we actually gave the money to the ISI in Pakistan to do with what they will. The people we should have aided in Afghanistan, the people who became the northern alliance, that’s not who we gave the money to. Its been a very common thing in our foreign policy to give money to some third party (or take their advice) and then have it bite us on the ass because we don’t realize they have their own ax to grind.

Somalia was the same problem, the UN guy was from Turkey, but he had business dealings with one of the warlords there so that’s who he wanted us to back.

So our foreign policy needs a lot of work, we’re too insular as a nation, but having people like I linked to above screaming at each other doesn’t help…