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–ÉN nem tud fog ez többé– is what you meant to say, RD?

Yeah, yeah, that exactly… :)

Or like Anne Heche, former Lesbian and Canadian, you’ve made up your own language? She did so to talk to aliens…

Not so fortunate I’m afraid. No aliens here, just some mangled Bela Bartok-ese. I think it’s actually supposed to be “egy-ket-ha-negy”, and is used as a kind of rhythmic one-two-three-four count. (At least more rhythmic than egy-kettot-harom-negy anyhow…)

Glad this is the middle of the night or else the WTF comments would be flying right now -

and I agree with all that stuff you wrote in English about the Usual Suspects

Thx!

The blackmail being, “If you people don’t make peace with your neighbors – on their terms – then we can’t be held responsible for the consequences. Consequences not just for Israel, but for the entire Middle East.”

Or like Anne Heche, former Lesbian and Canadian, you’ve made up your own language? She did so to talk to aliens, and in the high point of her career babbled on TV to Babwa Walters. Turns out that aliens only speak Yiddish, with a Polish accent, so…….

and I agree with all that stuff you wrote in English about the Usual Suspects

and thus concludes tonight’s lingo-seminar; more later, eventually

Egy ka het negy, I can’t take it anymore ;)

Bryan, it’s all of that – everything you laid out above – PLUS a betrayal of Israel, a gratuitous one, going out of their way as they did to link Iraq unnecessarily to Israel’s security situation.

And, to add insult to injury, they took a highly tendentious view of the Palestinian jihad against the Jewish state that wasn’t necessary either and is tantamount to blackmail.

That Iraq would now be “allowed” – in polite company and official circles – to be tied directly to the “settlement” of the Palestinian-Israeli and other “disputes” outside of American control attempts to pile on the kind of leverage against Israel that says, if you don’t settle your disputes with your adversaries (or their disputes with you), no matter how outrageous their demands, then not only are you preventing your own security dilemma from being resolved, now you’re preventing ours as well.

How dare they? Just who the he– are these characters – Abu Baker, Leon Pancetta and the rest – to even suggest this, let alone stipulate it? Just putting the idea into circulation is dangerous because it makes it more acceptable to talk about it, and thus more likely for someone down the line to try it even if the current administration rejects it.

A Gypsy is a cigány; Gypsies as a group are cigány módjára élni

…and thus concludes tonight’s lingo-seminar; more later, eventually

On topic, more or less, last month was the fiftieth aniversary of the “Hungarian Uprising”, when men with old rifles stood up to Soviet tanks in the streets of Budapest in a vain attempt to end the rule of a Russian puppet–and the Eisenhower administration, for all its talk, did nothing. — Janos Hunyadi

…so it is…I’d forgotten.

From the few refugees and children of refugees I’ve met, America got the best of the deal. It was a sad, shameful episode. NATO proved that it wasn’t good for much…a record it’s kept spotless….

Hungary won out in the end. You can’t keep a good people down for long.

I’m so glad your parents made it with the two children. I assume Janos and Mila are you and your sister. Could be wrong.

In 1968 I was on a trip by train to then East-Germany, via Budapest and Prague, as we couldn’t travel anywhere else. I came home one week before the Russians moved into Csechoslovakia. The Romanian tanks were moving rapidly toward the border because Ceausescu had criticized the USSR for attacking another communist country and they had warned him to be quiet or to be next. I was very, very young and scared. We came very close…Many Csechs left at that time to Austria.

James Baker, senior law partner of Baker-Botts law firm. The law firm that is representing Saudi Arabia to protect them against lawsuits from victims families of 9/11.

The basis for the defense? Cries of racism. The motion (for the defense)attacked the 9-11 lawsuit as a “broadside indictment of Saudi government, religion and culture.” The Baker-Botts team also filed the motion under the pretense that as a “third-ranking official of a foreign government,” the government of Saudi Arabia is immune to prosecution from the U.S.

The lawsuit claims that Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz funneled money to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, but the Baker-Botts team has countered saying that he can’t be sued by Americans because as an official act of the Saudi government, the Sultan funneled the money under official circumstances for the government, and the Saudi government is immune to U.S prosecution.

more here.

On topic, more or less, last month was the fiftieth aniversary of the “Hungarian Uprising”, when men with old rifles stood up to Soviet tanks in the streets of Budapest in a vain attempt to end the rule of a Russian puppet–and the Eisenhower administration, for all its talk, did nothing.

It would have been dangerous for Nato troops to cross the “Iron Curtain” and engage Warsaw Pact forces in 1956: it could likely have triggered a nuclear war, but the rhetoric coming out of Washington in those days was taken at face value by people who lost their lives–or had to flee their country with their two children, Mila and Janos

I agree with everything that you wrote except I would added Puritan1648′s bit on Sandra Day O’Connor.

I too think his wife should have been selected to be the “woman” on the panel. She would have been the only panelist with any military experience or keen insight.

How deluded and paranoid can one be? — Constantine

…I don’t know…what you got?

On a serious note, Bryan, thank you for saying what so many of us know in our fiber. You also know how to write eloquently.

GregH, I don’t question your patriotism, ever. I question your wisdom, while I think you’re a smart guy. But, eh, you’re free to be whatever, still, anyway.

Pablo nailed it on the ‘ideology’. I’d add that communism is also an ideology – though, our 3-4 adorable trolls might not wish that one to go away either…even though they pretend to like socialism better. I lived in communism. Talk to me before you embrace it again. Socialism is not far behind.

Janos, igen, igen – I left the link to the town, on the same thread you mentined it.

fogw, love your fixns, always. Thanks also for sharing your story a bit. Agree with you 100%. Would love to meet you some day.

We’ll look back at these times as very perilous, these very times, of right now, these weeks and months.

Few people opposed the war because it “felt” wrong, but rather because it was a diversion from the WoT and because invading and occupying a country is no small matter, even with competent leadership.

Constantine … please name a single war that you would have supported. And if you name World War 2 … would you have supported how we “won it?” I doubt it. And if I’m right … even back then, the likes of you would have eventually been whining and weeping about too many people dying. You simply lack the spine needed to defend your country, or your family.

The truth is that with a Republican in office … there’s absolutely no amount of evidence or facts that would convince you to support this war. Your hatred for this situation has nothing to do with the war. It’s about your sissy little liberal feelings.

Liberals deal in feeling and not in fact. They deal in slogans and not in critical thought. I believe that their identity politics have clouded any ability to recognize themselves as the usefull idiots that they are.

And our impending Muslim Overlords love them for it.

How deluded and paranoid can one be? Quite a bit, apparently. Few people opposed the war because it “felt” wrong, but rather because it was a diversion from the WoT and because invading and occupying a country is no small matter, even with competent leadership. They were right.

I know, it’s a silly fantasy.

urbancenturion on December 7, 2006 at 5:49 PM

I know, it’s a silly fantasy.

urbancenturion on December 7, 2006 at 5:49 PM

No, it is a dangerous fantasy. When Iranian leaders say things like this about Israel it is condemned roundly by many in this forum.

Off Topic, but about trolls.

My post on this subject (see trackback above) got linked to by Salon today. Yea me!

I gotta tell ya, Connie, GregH, and all the other guys with lefty tenancies hanging out here just to annoy the other “hot heads”… ya’ll are tame.

I am getting hate comments like I’ve never seen before. It will keep my black little heart warm for a few weeks at this rate.

E L Frederick (Sniper One) on December 7, 2006 at 5:47 PM

BTW, what’s a trackback?

I know, it’s a silly fantasy.

My post on this subject (see trackback above) got linked to by Salon today. Yea me!

I gotta tell ya, Connie, GregH, and all the other guys with lefty tenancies hanging out here just to annoy the other “hot heads”… ya’ll are tame.

I am getting hate comments like I’ve never seen before. It will keep my black little heart warm for a few weeks at this rate.

Jihadism will always be around; do you think we can kill an idea? By indulging in unnecessary invasive operations like Iraq, we give credence to the jihadi claims that we’re attacking the muslim world.

WRONG. Every time the United States of America, the greatest nation to have ever existed, succumbs to Islamic attacks and fails to defeat lesser Islamic enemies, the jihadi claims that God is on their side are demonstrated to be correct. Who but Allah could have managed a 9-11 attack so successfully with only 19 men? Who but Allah could be behind the retreat of 150,000 troops holding vastly superior armament when faced with fighting only a few thousand Muslim resistors?

The main reason that so many jihadists have been so willing to die for their cause is that recent history supports the perception that the war on the infidel is going to be won as a matter of course. They are absolutely sure of their reward, having witnessed great nations getting their “rewards” at the hand of Muslim extremists.

Sadly, this once-great nation has become defined in the eyes of our enemies in terms of our limitations (many self-imposed), not our potential. We are a predictable and a comfort-loving people.

Our failure to take this threat seriously has resulted and will continue to result in proving the existence of the radical Islamist’s Allah to even more Muslims. The real threat from these people comes from being defeated by them, and whatever we chose to call our withdrawal without victory will not change the perception of defeat in the hearts and minds of our enemies.

They live and die for the days America tastes defeat.

They are wrong, sure. But by having them here, we become better.

You make a blade sharp by working it on a dull stone.

Jihadism will always be around; do you think we can kill an idea?

We sure can. Do you see mush Nazism or Japanese imperialism these days? Hell, when was the last time you ran into a Druid?

History is replete with failed, forgotten ideas. Killing those who hold them is just one way of eliminating ideas.