tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post7841756538003724964..comments2024-03-28T13:46:08.524-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: "Remember the Maine!"Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-18745219912597636082021-07-20T07:08:05.018-05:002021-07-20T07:08:05.018-05:00I meant to say say wouldn’t surprise me. I meant to say say wouldn’t surprise me. Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679840606511726447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51486390864727768102021-07-19T11:04:42.916-05:002021-07-19T11:04:42.916-05:00Interesting that Bush the Younger recently comment...Interesting that Bush the Younger recently commented publicly, in disagreement with withdrawal from Afghanistan. Most agreed with the reason for our initial endeavor there, but most have come to believe that staying there in the state of diminishing returns is folly. All empathy for the fate of Afghan women doesn't affect our inability to change Afghani culture. What I would like to hear is W speaking up about the mendacity of Republicans and the fantasies that spew endlessly from the Party he once led. That might actually lead to real change.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-36100861841600308872021-07-19T10:54:53.881-05:002021-07-19T10:54:53.881-05:00And why do we not trade with Cuba? Oh yeah, the Un...And why do we not trade with Cuba? Oh yeah, the United States holds grudge like an Irishman.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79315138481159354042021-07-18T17:00:33.012-05:002021-07-18T17:00:33.012-05:00Interesting that you mention The Maine as Cuba is ...Interesting that you mention The Maine as Cuba is now undergoing disturbances. <br />The demonstrations are suspicious as there is no face to go with them. No leader. <br />It would surprise me that their President is right when he accuses some foreign faction of spreading misinformation via social media. <br />Yes, the Cubans should be upset. But not with their government. They should be upset with the US as we deprive them of food and medicine. <br />If they were only a democracy like Haiti, the people would be happy. <br />Yeah, right. Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679840606511726447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39803483507999377282021-07-18T10:54:35.239-05:002021-07-18T10:54:35.239-05:00Given enough time, almost all atrocities that brin...Given enough time, almost all atrocities that bring about wars are eventually "forgotten"...after the eyewitnesses and the participants and those who lived through that particular historical event are mostly no longer alive. The sinking of the Lusitania during World War I is one example. There are no longer any WWI veterans still alive. <br /><br />Soon, all the WWII survivors will also be gone, and even the cry of "Remember Pearl Harbor!" will be "forgotten"...except in history books and in documentaries. Long before this century ends, when everyone reading this will be long-forgotten dust, the same thing will happen to September 11.<br /><br />The only war-connected atrocity that may not be forgotten, at least for a few more generations, is what we have come to call the Holocaust. But as the last survivors die, first-hand memories and accounts are already fading. Now more than ever, the haters deny it ever happened. The young never hear about it, or shrug it off. A century from now, who knows what it will be called, or if it will even be remembered at all? Probably not so much. Especially after that dark chapter of history repeats itself. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-40061289094110800002021-07-18T10:44:36.703-05:002021-07-18T10:44:36.703-05:00I have read that as well. I have read that as well. sanfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06580867647162091670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90583616922136867992021-07-18T08:29:18.847-05:002021-07-18T08:29:18.847-05:00And the NY Times won a pulitzer for their 'exp...And the NY Times won a pulitzer for their 'expose' of WMD's which did not exist. This lowered my opinion of the times, and the prize....I don't think everyone 'forgets', note the AP poll of 21% trusting the newspapers...dodahmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16956857111371773320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-88143286570973913952021-07-18T06:12:40.957-05:002021-07-18T06:12:40.957-05:00Wasn't this used as propaganda by the Hearst p...Wasn't this used as propaganda by the Hearst papers to elicit outrage and garner support for the war? We tend to forget that Fox and company aren't the first right wing propagandists. A certain Chicago paper comes to mind..................... 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