Romney claims Israelis culturally superior to Palestinians

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Re: Romney claims Israelis culturally superior to Palestinia

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Chap wrote:
Droopy wrote:.... the Yom Kipper War in 1973 ...


I missed that war. Maybe I should start sending these cards out to commemorate this important occasion?

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The one that my family got upset about was one that started on the 10th of Tishrei. No kippers all day.


Droopy wrote:Saturday, the 6th of October, 1973.


Better than I could ever have hoped for. Just when I thought Droopy couldn't get dumber.
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Let me help you out. Imagine what would have happened had candidate Obama traveled to Salt Lake City during the 2008 campaign and stated, in public, that he admired of LDS culture in spite of the fact that the Church was founded by an individual who was later documented by both Church and public records to be an adulterer, liar, drunk, polygamist and fraud and who engaged in polyandry and pedophilia.


You're the new Walter Duranty of Mormondiscussions.com. The one charge here that is not long debunked anti-Mormon mythology is polygamy. The rest is mythic begotry that was, for the most part, put to rest when E.D. Howe was still alive.

Nice attempt at tabloid slander of that which you don't understand and of which you clearly have done very little serious homework.

Have a nice day trapped in your inner thought world.
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Re: Romney claims Israelis culturally superior to Palestinia

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Droopy wrote:Saturday, the 6th of October, 1973.


Better than I could ever have hoped for. Just when I thought Droopy couldn't get dumber.


You should probably detox first before entering into this discussion. Then you can come back and tell us all about the great nationalist leader, Father Ho, as well as the Israeli "occupation."
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George Gilder is wrong about pretty much anything he has ever commented on, by the way. But, one of the more notable things that Droopy is encouraging everyone to "deep reading on" is his belief that men are inherently superior to women in the workplace and encouraging national policy that keeps men at work and women in the kitchen. That's bad economic culture in addition to being brutally sexist.
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DrW wrote:
It really matters not if Romney's remarks could be construed as reasonable (or even accurate) based on carefully selected facts. The problem is that he said what he said on the international stage in an area of the world where it is extremely important that the US can be seen as a neutral broker.


Why do we want to be seen as a neutral broker? We are on the side of democracy (Israel) as opposed to terrorism (the Palestinian state). It's pretty simple when you get right down to it. Obama's foreign policy is encouraging the terrorists.
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Droopy wrote:
Droopy wrote:Saturday, the 6th of October, 1973.


Better than I could ever have hoped for. Just when I thought Droopy couldn't get dumber.


You should probably detox first before entering into this discussion. Then you can come back and tell us all about the great nationalist leader, Father Ho, as well as the Israeli "occupation."


He still doesn't get it.
Zadok:
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EAllusion wrote:George Gilder is wrong about pretty much anything he has ever commented on, by the way.


Fantastic admittance, unwitting or no, that your knowledge of free market economics and, more broadly speaking, praxeology - the theory and study of human action - is to the negative power. I always knew this to be the case, but thanks for substantiating my understanding will unimpeachable evidence from the horse's mouth.

But, one of the more notable things that Droopy is encouraging everyone to "deep reading on" is his belief that men are inherently superior to women in the workplace and encouraging national policy that keeps men at work and women in the kitchen. That's bad economic culture in addition to being brutally sexist.


You've opened yourself up to a CFR on this one, so jump to it, Delusion.

I'll be waiting patiently.

That's bad economic culture in addition to being brutally sexist.


Oh the politically correct humanity! Its neither. The vast entrance into the workforce of woman since the sixties has not all been a bad thing. It has also, along other dimensions, had substantial negative consequences and side effects for the culture as a whole, and especially on the viability of family, marriage, and child bearing/rearing - the foundation of the entire civil social order.

Its been a trade-off, with both positive and negative effects. On which side of the ledger this falls, positive or negative, is the question.
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He still doesn't get it.




I don't think most people "get" most of what you say, Chap.
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Re: Romney claims Israelis culturally superior to Palestinia

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Boilermaker wrote: ... It's pretty simple when you get right down to it. ...


No. In foreign policy, if it's important it's almost never simple, at least if you attach some value to the lives of your fellow-countrymen or even (astonishing thought) the lives of those who are not your fellow-countrymen.

Except in retrospect. It gets really easy then.
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Re: Romney claims Israelis culturally superior to Palestinia

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Boilermaker wrote:
DrW wrote:
It really matters not if Romney's remarks could be construed as reasonable (or even accurate) based on carefully selected facts. The problem is that he said what he said on the international stage in an area of the world where it is extremely important that the US can be seen as a neutral broker.


Why do we want to be seen as a neutral broker? We are on the side of democracy (Israel) as opposed to terrorism (the Palestinian state). It's pretty simple when you get right down to it. Obama's foreign policy is encouraging the terrorists.

Obama's policy has been very Isreal friendly. He has been repeatedly praised by Israeli statesmen for it.

e.g.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64034.html

You might lament that Obama isn't giving random speeches in Ohio about the need to encourage Isreal to demolish more Palestinian towns and erect settlements over them, but you aren't going to get too much difference in policy on Isreal between Romney and Obama. The one notable exception I can think of is Romney publically has said he would support Isreal bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, where Obama has tried to dissuade them from doing so. But I'm not so sure a president Romeny would be like candidate Romney on that front.
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