Posts by chris
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Kracklite,
Ostensibly sure, but within your lavishly furnished mind who's to say what dark missives lurk...
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Kracklite,
Apologies. I say exactly what I erm think..........................people want to hear.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to R A Hurley,
Thanks RA Hurley, you paraphrased my point succinctly with;
How do we know?
An argument in which the protagonist is imposing his perception of a third party's thought processes against others' perceptions is always going to be - somewhat moot. When this third party has managed to evade detection for ten years, I'd emphasize - strikingly.
And if they weren't, that would make him a liar and manipulator of the sincere beliefs of others. Which would be even worse.
Worse than a genocidal maniac? really? This is romanticism.
Speech in Washington D.C., June 1, 2004
"I believe that God wants me to be president."
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No, about their culture. He would have despised it, for the reasons I noted. Do you seriously think he’d have embraced a culture in which music plays such a part? In which carvings, and whole houses, are imbued with the wairua of ancestors?
I no longer have the inside word on genocidal maniacs' thought processes, but I'd venture that OBL was no more true to his espoused religious bent than GWB was to Christ.
For Bin Laden, idolatry was one of the greatest evils. He would presumably have burst a blood vessel at the sight of a well-hewn whare nui. And he regarded music as such an abomination that he stopped attending horse racing events in Khartoum to avoid having to hear “the flute of the Devil”. So, like, don’t be welcoming him with any waiata.
There is a great deal of faith expressed in this paragraph.
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You are truly golden Mr Carter.
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Fair call. So long as you factor in what photojournalist Tim Hetherington – shortly before he was wounded and bled to death in the street last week – called “indiscriminate shelling” by Gadaffi’s forces of civilian areas of Misrata.
I don’t claim to have an answer, but there’s a genuine moral argument to be had there.
There certainly is Russell. The inexorable factor: Osama consistently dwelt on the need for violent jihad to right what he believed were injustices against Muslims perpetrated by the United States and sometimes by other non-Muslim states and the fact that these children were killed by NATO in operation Unified Protector, is as good a reminder as any of what compels the Bin Ladens of this world.
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It would be nice to think there was a moment here. For the kids, if nothing else.
It must be served up with a helping of despair for Gaddafi’s three grandchildren. The wheels on the bus...
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Islander,
I don't doubt that Islander, and good on you. Tangentially I've been trying to find if and how much the UK Government donated, noting that the Chinese gave $500k and one Cn businessman alone donated 100k, it'd be interesting to see some comparisons there, if for nothing more than to gauge who our real friends are.
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Islander,
I wouldnt call some of the parties/issues/causes here, that have had UK funding, benign -
I don’t disagree with you, The UK is that annoying sometimes downright rude uncle, and yet that $10k Kate and William donated to the Christchurch earthquake appeal is more than I could come up with. It’s not as if they had to.