“Incompetent American rubes spreading death where ever they go isn’t any better than American isolationism, Michael.”

Good point, jihad boy. Actually, I can’t think of anything offhand that it’s better than, but I certainly wouldn’t disagree with the statement. One good reason I live in the US is that we have a country and military that has always been very faithful to the judicial codes they have sworn to and we’ve always come down hard on transgressors like that in military and civilian courts. Not sure how it is in your country, but by the consistent cluelessness concerning the US in your comments, it’s very different there.

“A note to wingnuts: Stop milkin’ WWII for phony justifications…we don’t have Stalin doing all the heavy lifting this time around.”

Note to jihad boy: Stop milking every success your compatriots have killing unarmed innocents as phony justification for US military failure in trying to protect said innocents. Your side will never win the war that way.

Or stay In character – clueless while spouting the jihadi cant.

There’s a new movie out about the War on Terror. OK not really, but it’s set in the time of the War on Terror and involves one of the main news stories about it. Daniel Pearl, the journalist who had his head brutally sawed off by Khalid Sheikh Mohamm…

Alf the ant is a perfect collectivist. Being lazy, he has given over his individual mind to any other who will do his thinking for him. The other must have a simple, easy to remember message so that Alf the ant, and those like him, can parrot it without too much trouble. This is why he never says anything of worth, and when confronted with a subject for which he has no pre-programmed response, will offer up non sequiturs galore. Since a human being can never really ignore the fact that they have given up the reasoning mind that makes them human, Alf hates anyone who has the courage to think beyond the script and will duly denigrate reason (mere bias) and reality (whose reality?).

You will also note, if you are unfortunate enough to encounter him very often, that anyone who does not spout his brand of bile is a “neo-con wingnut.” It doesn’t matter a whit whether you’ve stated that you do not agree with the neo-con philosophy, for the ant has no independent cognitive faculty left to integrate such an idea. Having given up his own rational faculty, he is a perfect example of perceptual level, concrete-bound drone. Very unattractive in what should have been a rational animal.

He has named his blog “Alphie1Victim,” or some such. Says it all, really.

Yeah, that’s a real moronic statement.

As if it weren’t already a tragedy.

This elitist “review” stuff helps qualify R. Ebert for KOAM title, King of All Morons.

Let’s just say you can get a reliable majority of Americans to agree that we should kill terrorists who want to kill Americans.

Anyone who wants to add groups or individuals to our target list for their own personal reasons risk losing that majority.

In fact, I’ll say you guys have already lost it.

Hamas/Jihadist/Islamofascists cult members think they are America’s problem. The actions on 9/11 proved that as a fact. And if you don’t believe that, well I wish you well in your ignorant bliss.

But most of us live in the real world and want to attempt to understand it and perchance make it a better place. That sometimes entails making judgments and taking actions against decayed and degraded societies whose problems have become the world’s.

However, you sound like a person who finds nothing for which he is willing to fight. But no need to worry about your own personal safety Alphie; your freedom to believe there is nothing worth fighting for is being protected by the exertions of better men than yourself.

Nor is Algeria.

As for the wingnuts who think their bizarre version of Daniel Pearl’s widow’s story is more authentic than her own version…maybe it’s time for a little self-reflection and soul searching.

“Incompetent American rubes spreading death where ever they go isn’t any better than American isolationism” “Unless you make a buck supplying them or cheering them on, of course.”

You don’t even know who “them” is do you Alphie.

Well one of the Hamas “them” threw a Fatah “them” off a 15 story building while his hands were tied behind his back the other day. If you watched any of the beheadings you’ll notice that is a failry standard practive of “them”. Pretty cowardly stuff.

And if one of “them” wants to leave the “them” religion; a group of wise “thems” gets to declare the heretic “them’s” death.

BTW, “them” killed over 150,000 people in Algeria with not an American rube in sight.

“We reflect that the majority of Muslims do not approve of the behavior of Islamic terrorists, just as the majority of Americans disapprove of the war in Iraq.”

This needs clarification indeed…

“The Americans who complain about “negative” news are the ideological cousins of those who shoot at CNN crews. The news is the news, good or bad, and those who resent being informed of it are pitiful. ”

…but is likely just as disgraceful. Ebert really, really wants to make a stronger political statement here — he has filmmaker or “real journalist” envy in that they can do so and he’s stuck just reviewing movies — but he can’t, he has to couch and hedge so his prose comes out obscurely. Writing always comes out crap when the author can’t find a way to say what’s on his mind. Lucky for us.