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• Ryan

  May 31, 2013 at 8:25 pm

  Good interview with Mr. Larison. I always enjoy hearing him and reading his writings.

  Having observed McCain since his first election to Congress I do believe his is crazy as hell and a danger to America. Too bad the Syrian Airforce couldn’t have bombed the place where he met these kidnappers. One can only hope that if he runs again the voters of Arizona will have the good sense to retire him. He’s done enough damage.

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  • Orville H. Larson

    June 4, 2013 at 12:22 am

    That warmongering cretin McInsane is beyond the pale. The voters of Arizona are mental and moral midgets for electing this swine. Trouble is, the Parliament of Whores–er, uh, the U.S. Congress–has others just like him.

    Senator Rand Paul is showing promise, I must say!

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  • John Kassabian

    June 7, 2013 at 4:31 pm

    Ryan,

    You hit it on the head.

    You may also be interested to know he almost put his Carrier the Forestal to the bottom of the South China Sea. On the positive side the Navy can fight ship fires much better now…..

    JK

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• John Ellis

  June 1, 2013 at 12:43 pm

  Not a word from Larison about our being an Empire and in need of confusion to smokescreen our brutal imperialism and wars of plunder. For the corporate rich know best how to maximize profit in the trading of war materials for Middle-East oil, surely they call all the shots.

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  • Thomas

    June 2, 2013 at 11:52 am

    Larison is okay but he is obsessed with slobbering over “foreign policy realists”, an extremely broad group that includes the James Baker-school of imperialism. His chief criterion appears to be avoiding hot war, a means-obsessed fallacy which avoids questions of the relative moral righteousness of the actual goals of foreign policy. Therefore, he has been relatively defensive of Obama as a “realist” vs. the “neocons”, even though his sort of imperialism is wildly more successful at achieving a negative result. Now, I know he is less pro-imperialist than Obama, but he does not have a very comprehensive analysis of anything but the dangers of entanglement.

    Also, there is the standard paleocon pitfall of assuming that mistakes like Iraq occur because the government bureaucracy and its supporters in the intelligentsia and punditdom are wide-eyed, naïve enthusiasts for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. They mean all too well, you see, but “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. It is really a flattering picture of their enemies, and more than naïve itself, particularly for “realists”.

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    • Ryan

      June 5, 2013 at 1:23 am

      “Also, there is the standard paleocon pitfall of assuming that mistakes like Iraq occur because the government bureaucracy and its supporters in the intelligentsia and punditdom are wide-eyed, naïve enthusiasts for ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’.”

      No, not all of us. I personally believe that what you laid out is true for some of these people there are three other considerations. I believe stupidity and arrogance combine with evil are at work as well. The top neocons like Feith, Krauthammer, Cheney, ad nauseam, come to mind immediately.

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• The Khalifah

  June 4, 2013 at 1:14 pm

  What do you call an 80yrs old ccongre$$Xmen = Oileeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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• eric

  June 4, 2013 at 1:53 pm

  So much of what our government does in Foregn countries is absolulely wrong .The opposite of good . Obama may actualy have the most transparent U.S. government ever but more so becuase of the internet rather than improved governmentcommunications .

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