tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post114076876726220663..comments2023-11-05T03:12:10.925-06:00Comments on Renegade Eye: Sectarian violence engulfs Iraq following mosque bombingFrank Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-55710592828787213282009-08-01T09:06:57.656-05:002009-08-01T09:06:57.656-05:00Please can you let me know, how to contact you for...Please can you let me know, how to contact you for link exchange.<br /><br />Thanks<br />Abhi<br />abhisily@yahoo.inpic27.blogspot.comhttp://www.pic27.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1141005861696558402006-02-26T20:04:00.000-06:002006-02-26T20:04:00.000-06:00I just came home from work. I need spellcheck. I...I just came home from work. I need spellcheck. I mean Vietnamese not Vietnames.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1141005669883714572006-02-26T20:01:00.000-06:002006-02-26T20:01:00.000-06:00I supported the Vietnames when they overthrew the ...I supported the Vietnames when they overthrew the rightist, genocidal, Khmer Rouge. It's not wideely known the Khmer Rouge landed the first blow. History doesn't care who started what at a certain point. I was against the Soviets withdrawing from Afghanistan. I supported the Cubans fighting South Africa in Mozambique. <BR/><BR/>I have not come across anyone in decades who thinks of North and South Vietnam as two countries.<BR/><BR/>I'm planning a post on the subject of national liberation, or as Marxists say "the national question." Is nationalism ever progressive? Are nationalist leaders reactionary? I'll get heat from both left and right. I'm not claiming answers, but I will start a discussion.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140992857197672792006-02-26T16:27:00.001-06:002006-02-26T16:27:00.001-06:00Sorry I just noticed that I was answering a point ...Sorry I just noticed that I was answering a point to Sonia, not Ren..<BR/><BR/>Amd Bush and his boys and girl are not fascists, but they are very, very confused.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140992823152529842006-02-26T16:27:00.000-06:002006-02-26T16:27:00.000-06:00ren. I could'nt tell you what they were in Korea a...ren. I could'nt tell you what they were in Korea and Vietnam - more like Moaists, possibly - but the failure to import socialism into Poland in 1920 is proof of my point. <BR/><BR/>But it's more a matter of empirical fact. Where has democracy been dropped into a country from 30,000 feet on the end of a bomb? Free societies cannot be created from above or from without. Where are the examples of the opposite?beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140990311401269352006-02-26T15:45:00.000-06:002006-02-26T15:45:00.000-06:00Beatroot, what you say is spot on - and you will s...Beatroot, what you say is spot on - and you will soon realise that what sonia says in responses bears no resemblence to anything that people actually said or meant! <BR/><BR/>And you will also realise that Renegade, unlike me, is a nice guy who tolerates views of those such as sonia! At least he continues to post on issues which winds up the right wing fascists in this world!Reidskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17099190023784077789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140978401981128982006-02-26T12:26:00.000-06:002006-02-26T12:26:00.000-06:00This is what warmongering gets you.Innocent people...This is what warmongering gets you.<BR/><BR/>Innocent people have topay the price for our blunders.Daniel Hoffmann-Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531802987223516482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140969528463113992006-02-26T09:58:00.000-06:002006-02-26T09:58:00.000-06:00Beatroot,Your blog is good too!And rule one of the...Beatroot,<BR/><BR/>Your blog is good too!<BR/><BR/><I>And rule one of the socialist movement is that you cannot create democracy by invasion</I> <BR/><BR/>So I guess Trotsky wasn't a socialist when his Red Army invaded Poland in 1920, and the North Vietnamese weren't socialist when they invaded South Vietnam in 1975 and Cambodia in 1978 (that last invasion, btw, was entirely justified in my opinion)...<BR/><BR/>But most importantly, while it's very nice of socialists to claim that they shouldn't invade other countries, George W. Bush never pretended to be a socialist. He is supposed to be a war-mongering fascist asshole, remember, so apparently he had to invade Iraq to satisfy his critics...soniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938174968325568608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140943968531862952006-02-26T02:52:00.000-06:002006-02-26T02:52:00.000-06:00But as Nietzsche stated, if you want to make an id...But as Nietzsche stated, if you want to make an idol stronger, throw it into mud. If you want to kill an idol, put it on ice.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15364161667997825733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140825935756020452006-02-24T18:05:00.000-06:002006-02-24T18:05:00.000-06:00Great post, Ren. Very revealing. I can almost sens...Great post, Ren. <BR/>Very revealing. <BR/>I can almost sense the fear and apprehension in the author's take on what is taking place around her. The fear is palpable.romanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15988548647887978919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140822642835247492006-02-24T17:10:00.000-06:002006-02-24T17:10:00.000-06:00Sonia – good blog! But the fundamental crime of th...Sonia – good blog! <BR/><BR/>But the fundamental crime of the invasion of Iraq is that it violates the principle of national self-determination. I was brought up a socialist by my dad, and I learnt all the Marxist stuff when I was at college. And rule one of the socialist movement is that you cannot create democracy by invasion, or from above. It has to come from active political groups within society itself. <BR/><BR/>I don't really know what it means to be left wing today, but I stick by the principle.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140796031408786432006-02-24T09:47:00.000-06:002006-02-24T09:47:00.000-06:00Thanks for that one, Ren.What it really needs is f...Thanks for that one, Ren.<BR/><BR/>What it really needs is for the West to go storming in and bring peace to the country ... oh, wait, they already tried that and look what happened ....Reidskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17099190023784077789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140783365863556282006-02-24T06:16:00.000-06:002006-02-24T06:16:00.000-06:00Pro-war?Ah, you mean Saddam Hussein?I agree it wou...Pro-war?<BR/><BR/>Ah, you mean Saddam Hussein?<BR/><BR/>I agree it would be nice if he blew his brains out, but I think he will be hanged first....<BR/><BR/>Of the West's making?<BR/><BR/>Very comforting, but just flat wrong. Read <A HREF="http://sonia-belle.blogspot.com/2006/02/appointment-in-samarra.html" REL="nofollow">this</A>.soniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938174968325568608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-1140779825282633452006-02-24T05:17:00.000-06:002006-02-24T05:17:00.000-06:00Nice post...but...I wonder how bad things will hav...Nice post...but...<BR/><BR/>I wonder how bad things will have to get before those who were pro-war finally out their hands up and say: OK, it's a fair cop - this whole thing was all a predictable disaster, of the West's making, and all leaders of nation's involved (US/UK/Poland...)will now go out into the bright winter sunshine, put a gun to their temples and blow their fucking brains out...?beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.com