tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post8058568423045291333..comments2024-03-28T03:24:11.539-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Looking for Love in the Muslim WorldDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-81403498629113743432013-07-04T20:38:20.396-04:002013-07-04T20:38:20.396-04:00I have noticed that my friends from the Middle Eas...I have noticed that my friends from the Middle East (mostly business associates) tend to view people as friends or enemies. No middle ground. Seems to work for them.<br /><br />After 9/11 it was and still is hard for self-absorbed Americans to understand that the terrorists did this for reasons that are entirely their own. It was not really about us and our foreign policy. The story of Qutb makes for good reading.fodderwingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30163053338387029842013-07-04T07:48:09.739-04:002013-07-04T07:48:09.739-04:00They hate us because it works. So much sense in su...They hate us because it works. So much sense in such a short space is rare. Thanks for a clear-eyed, and funny, view of the world. Steve W from Fordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-86056922945463840412013-07-03T20:13:18.084-04:002013-07-03T20:13:18.084-04:00This article owes a hat tip to obummercare and ima...This article owes a hat tip to obummercare and imagrating bill, two truly idiotic pieces of subterfuge benefiting very few. It seems to me the real leadership in America comes from bloggers like the Sultan of Knish, if writing with clarity can be leading with thought.Larshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13244208740850193859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-46099009238923541662013-07-03T19:58:36.046-04:002013-07-03T19:58:36.046-04:00Can you imagine the discourse of the saudi princes...Can you imagine the discourse of the saudi princes after a visit from shrillary or Karry? I can hear the guffaws from here (MidWest).Larshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13244208740850193859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-14672669323816894322013-07-03T15:28:52.545-04:002013-07-03T15:28:52.545-04:00Ms. Psaki is probably next in line for WH press se...Ms. Psaki is probably next in line for WH press secretary. Earned her ups in Mr. Obama's 2012 campaign and is being seasoned in Foggy Bottom. <br />Is well qualified in the bromides and nostrums department. Will probably be hard pressed to note any change. <br />Fanatic hippies w/nukes or idiots -thanks for that one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-22862667605869845802013-07-03T10:58:50.185-04:002013-07-03T10:58:50.185-04:00Edgar, that's the Obama Team in a nutshellEdgar, that's the Obama Team in a nutshellDaniel Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-31393426169583773622013-07-03T09:56:31.768-04:002013-07-03T09:56:31.768-04:00So........is Kumbayah the new US national anthem?
...So........is Kumbayah the new US national anthem?<br /><br />Daniel, as always, is right on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-50223843648884762792013-07-03T09:32:44.012-04:002013-07-03T09:32:44.012-04:00I watched a young spokeswoman (Jen Psak) from the ...I watched a young spokeswoman (Jen Psak) from the U.S. State Department yesterday make a statement about Egypt. It was bizzarely incoherent and inonsistent. Psak - like most State Department employees - seems to have been selected on the basis of having minimal intelligence and zero knowledge of the Middle East. Confronting antisemitism and Israel hatredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194461954508969242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-53095205062867004032013-07-03T08:20:26.829-04:002013-07-03T08:20:26.829-04:00It's all about money, always. They promote rac...It's all about money, always. They promote racism and wars, to make money, and they don't care who dies, and they will never allow Section 8 Housing in Martha's Vineyard because they live way above the peasants. Other than that, anything goes to make money.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09518677967627217789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-68218684410229572862013-07-03T07:27:34.063-04:002013-07-03T07:27:34.063-04:00"There is no way to convince them otherwise b..."There is no way to convince them otherwise because it would require somehow making them understand that our government is run by people who walk a fine line between treason and idiocy, to whom the very notion of national interests is an obscenity. You could get every member of the faculty of Al Azhar to sit down to a repast of beer and ham sandwiches before you would get a single member of Obama's foreign policy team to agree that American national interests should trump experimenting with democracy in Egypt." <br /><br />This is one of Daniel's wickedest remarks. It's for the books because it's so true. Wanting to be loved by people who would rather see you dead is a neurosis peculiar to our foreign policy craftsmen. But why limit it to Obama's foreign policy team? I can't think of a single foreign policy team under any president going back to FDR that got everything right about what was going on elsewhere in the world and what the U.S. should do about it, if anything. <br /><br />I must add that the Muslim world hates the U.S because it is the U.S. I don't think they're blind to its value as a (now) semi-free nation. The U.S. is good, they hate the good for being the good, and want to destroy it because it is the good. That's the long and short of it.<br />Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62648347081419012992013-07-03T01:40:51.067-04:002013-07-03T01:40:51.067-04:00Our elites want to be loved. They don't want t...Our elites want to be loved. They don't want to rule over people who hate them...<br /><br />Except at home: here in the U.S. they're perfectly happy to make large segments of the populace hate them, so long as they get to rule over us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-14634433675422723322013-07-02T22:53:36.222-04:002013-07-02T22:53:36.222-04:00I have trouble believing that Hillary, Kerry, Hage...I have trouble believing that Hillary, Kerry, Hagel, and so many other liberals want to be loved by the world for anything in particular. I wouldn't doubt that they would prefer being adored in order to have whatever they think "power" means, but to be loved for they sake of being loved? These are con men/women, some are outright criminals. What Obama really wants I have no idea, there is just too much crazy stuff going on there.IgorRhttp://www.gmail.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-27881318736395397672013-07-02T14:19:59.590-04:002013-07-02T14:19:59.590-04:00You accurately describe what is, like so much of A...You accurately describe what is, like so much of American Leftism, essentially the viewpoint of an adolescent. The idea that historical forces thousands of years old can be reversed by a new generation more positive, accepting, and of course much smarter than any before it. These are the same people still wearing Chuck Taylors (made in Asian sweatshops by Nike) at age 35+.Patrick https://www.blogger.com/profile/05255276399870325008noreply@blogger.com