Comments on: Power and its uses http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/ I might have been born yesterday, sir, but I stayed up all night. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:33:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-16047 Steve Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:05:53 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-16047 <em>As opposed to when Bush is compared to Hitler? </em> Yeah, it was a foreign policy disaster when that firebrand from Z Magazine and those Kos commenters got us bogged down in the Second Revolution that time. I condemn that too. As opposed to when Bush is compared to Hitler?

Yeah, it was a foreign policy disaster when that firebrand from Z Magazine and those Kos commenters got us bogged down in the Second Revolution that time. I condemn that too.

]]> By: Ananth http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-16044 Ananth Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:53:33 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-16044 As opposed to when Bush is compared to Hitler? But I Digress. I would say our foreign policy is more parental than bullying. If we were bullies we would simply be taking the lunch money. As opposed to when Bush is compared to Hitler? But I Digress. I would say our foreign policy is more parental than bullying. If we were bullies we would simply be taking the lunch money.

]]> By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-15987 Steve Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:37:12 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-15987 I guess the corollary to "America hates a fucking bully" is that America is thus very susceptible to flattering lies re: its own bully status. Because we hate bullies as a culture, I think, and love underdogs, all the menaces we fight are earth-threatening ones, and all the battles we join are battles for democracy itself. Our raging need to believe that is probably the reason for the disturbing lack of scornful guffaws when, say, Saddam Hussein is compared seriously to Hitler. I guess the corollary to “America hates a fucking bully” is that America is thus very susceptible to flattering lies re: its own bully status. Because we hate bullies as a culture, I think, and love underdogs, all the menaces we fight are earth-threatening ones, and all the battles we join are battles for democracy itself. Our raging need to believe that is probably the reason for the disturbing lack of scornful guffaws when, say, Saddam Hussein is compared seriously to Hitler.

]]> By: nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-15982 nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:49:02 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2007/04/19/power-and-its-uses/#comment-15982 <em>But America hates a fucking bully.</em> funny...considering that sort of describes our foreign policy. But America hates a fucking bully.

funny…considering that sort of describes our foreign policy.

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