Jeff Danziger provides a scathing international take on politics, finance, and everything else you aren’t allowed to discuss at the dinner table. Combining spot-on caricatures with razor-sharp writing, this feature will make you listen a little more closely to what they tell you on the news.
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RussellNash said, almost 4 years ago
You have to get them to hate you less before you can get them to listen to what you have to say.
longtimecomicsfan said, almost 4 years ago
What’s interesting here is that the current military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan involves empowering the locals to police their own territory and fight off interloping Al Queda radicals, who are usually just as violent against the indigent population.
So now the President extends an “open” hand to Muslim nations, which could potentially empower those nations to turn away the extremist factions that OBL would like to have in dominant positions in the clergy and in those governments…hmmm.
deadheadzan
said, almost 4 years ago
Good, sharp comments here.
dtroutma
said, almost 4 years ago
Charlie Wilson offered a hand, then we pulled out, and pulled it back. Alchemy in reverse, turning golden opportunities into lead.
churchillwasright said, almost 4 years ago
After the next terrorist attack, you people will realize (I take that back– you people will never admit you’re wrong, no matter what evidence you see) that “reaching out” to the “Muslim world”, while great showbusiness, was ultimately useless, because we have never been at war with the “muslim world”, nor them with us. If I heard Bush, and our allies, say it once, I heard it a thousand times. You either conveniently forgotten this, or always thought that we were at war against the “muslim world”.
Those that have been at war with us– well before 9/11– will not be swayed by this rhetoric, unless we all convert to Islam and accept Sharia law.
cdward said, almost 4 years ago
Yes church, but Bush had a great way of alienating the rest of the “Muslim world,” so that they neither trusted us nor felt we could be counted on. Remember that Iraq did not contain those terrorists before we attacked them. And his rhetoric (“You’re either with us … or with the terrorists.” Remember that?) almost forced potential allies into a position of opposing nearly everything we did.
The reaching out isn’t for the terrorists. It’s for those HE so effectively alienated.
danielsangeo said, almost 4 years ago
“After the next terrorist attack”
It’s what you’re hoping happens, isn’t it?
“Those that have been at war with us– well before 9/11– will not be swayed by this rhetoric, unless we all convert to Islam and accept Sharia law.”
No, they won’t. And that’s why we’re not reaching out to THEM.
nickdangerfield said, almost 4 years ago
Thanks, President Bush , for keeping us safe. I apologize for the bleeep you had to take for doing so.
Anthawn Nichols said, almost 4 years ago
Where chaging for the orld out look on us. We are no longer the World Bully or World Police. We are now The umm…The World… umm… Cousleor?
churchillwasright said, almost 4 years ago
DANIEL: So now you can’t think that another attack is inevitable without a jerk like you saying that you hope it happens? Low.
BTW, I’ve written posts like this before, but included the words “unfortunately inevitable”. l assumed that was a given. Apparently not for jerks like you. And are you going to have my remarks deleted for calling you the jerk that you are? You should be glad you didn’t say that to my face.
FENNEC: I was a Cable TV installer in Central NJ for eight years. For some reason (pharmaceutical industry mostly), Central NJ has a very high Muslim population. I was in and out of their households all day long. They all seemed to be a highly educated, deeply religious people who are enjoying the promise of this great Country. Please explain how reaching out to them will effect those who are waging jihad against us.
danielsangeo said, almost 4 years ago
“DANIEL: So now you can’t think that another attack is inevitable without a jerk like you saying that you hope it happens? Low.
BTW, I’ve written posts like this before, but included the words “unfortunately inevitable”. l assumed that was a given. Apparently not for jerks like you. And are you going to have my remarks deleted for calling you the jerk that you are? You should be glad you didn’t say that to my face.”
Now you know what I’ve put up with for 8 years.
churchillwasright said, almost 4 years ago
DANIEL: Not my problem, shmuck.
cdward said, almost 4 years ago
churchill, take a deep breath. Now, we are all agreed that there are good Muslims all over the place. We are all agreed that Obama is not reaching out to the extremists because that would be pointless.
So to whom is he reaching out, and to what end? It seems we can find the answer in US politics. In the primaries you play to your base, but in the general election, you play to the swing voters, that one-third who could go either way. That’s exactly what he’s doing now. There are a lot of folks in traditionally Muslim countries who could go either way. Many of them took offense at President Bush’s “my way or the highway” tone. They looked more favorably upon the extremists, and that made our position very tenuous in the middle east. I know that he regularly said, “Our fight is not with the Muslim people,” but invading a Muslim country not involved with 9/11 didn’t exactly inspire confidence. Besides, a lot of his other words contradicted that reassurance (certainly, that was the sense that many Muslims around the world got).
Therefore, it makes perfect sense for President Obama to reach out a hand to the average Muslim throughout the world and say, “We’re going to take the rhetoric down a notch because we have a lot more in common than we’ve been seeing lately.”