Category Archives: Middle East

ADL Reverses Its Position on Armenian Genocide

Posted on August 22, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The Anti-Defamation League reversed its previous position that held the genocide of Armenians wasn’t genocide yesterday. Sort of, anyway.
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Fucking Morons, Jewish Stuff, Middle East | 7 Comments

The War Criminal Wing of the Republican Party

Posted on August 22, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

These guys make Hezbollah and Al-Queda look like moderates.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Iraq, Middle East | 7 Comments

Two Important Posts About Iraq

Posted on July 18, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

driftglass points out an obvious–although previously unnoticed–problem with the neocon claims that there’s is no civil war in Iraq. John Aravosis answers the question “Has al-Queda won?”
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Posted in Conservatives, Iraq, Middle East | 1 Comment

About Those Missing WMD in Syria…

Posted on June 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Jonathan Hari of TNR bravely went undercover and joined a cruise hosted by the National Review. That is a heroic sacrifice on behalf of the Coalition of the Sane, and no amount of satire could do that lunacy justice. But Norman “the blood of GIs is better than Viagra” Podhoretz brought up a tired canard of the Delusional Right.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Iraq, Middle East, The Soviet | 10 Comments

We Didn’t Create Hamas, But We Did…

Posted on June 21, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

…help them win the election. In any discussion of the Middle East, all sorts of things will be claimed, but there is one awful historical fact: American and Israeli pressure on the Palestinian Authority to change their electoral system helped Hamas win the 2006 elections.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Middle East, Terrorism, Voting | 7 Comments

Maybe Democrats Are Just Stupid?

Posted on June 11, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

I used to think that Democratic politicians were trying to be too clever by half, and consequently screwed things up. Then I started to think that many are actually quite conservative, so they’re just reverting to form–most of them don’t have a tiny liberal inside of them, struggling to be free. After reading this exchange with a Democratic canvasser (something I used to do), I think the party has been taken over by fucking morons.
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Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Fucking Morons, Iraq, Middle East, Terrorism | 8 Comments

Friedman and the War Prayer

Posted on May 28, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Let’s contrast Thomas Friedman with Mark Twain this Memorial Day.
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Posted in Iraq, Middle East, Military, Religion | 2 Comments

Is Senator Clinton a Lieberman ‘Democrat’?

Posted on March 27, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

I ask this seriously. Among rank and file Democrats, there is a common belief that Democratic politicians are being dragged to right by the need for compromise. But I don’t think that’s the case with Clinton: she is a conservative Southern Democrat without the regional accent. And the southern blue dogs have been pretty weak on the Iraq Occupation.
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Posted in Democrats, Iraq, Middle East, Military, Progressives | 17 Comments

Breaking the Silence

Posted on March 25, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

A story in the NY Times about a very interesting Israeli group, Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtika), finally got me motivated to blog about it. Here’s one bit from the article that was interesting
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Posted in Middle East, Military | 6 Comments

Triumph of the Morons: More from the Peter Pan Conservatives

Posted on March 16, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Hear the Mighty Roar of the Peter Pan Conservatives: those conservatives who think that policy failures are not due to strategic, tactical, or logistical flaws but solely due to to a lack of will. It appears that this way of thinking has completely permeated Little Lord Pontchartrain’s brain. Neocon Irwin Stelzer had a luncheon meeting with the president. His description is chilling.
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Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Iraq, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Middle East, Military, Terrorism | 9 Comments