tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post116663465022653123..comments2023-11-02T03:51:26.343-07:00Comments on Coalition for Fog: Mark's latest response ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-1168168194509475812007-01-07T03:09:00.000-08:002007-01-07T03:09:00.000-08:00Josiah wrote:While it's clear that some American s...Josiah wrote:<BR/><BR/><I>While it's clear that some American solders did torture and abuse enemy POWs during WWII, it's not at all clear that these acts served any military purpose or that they played any significant role in our winning the war.</I><BR/><BR/>Well, it undoubtedly played a lesser role than the A-bomb, D-Day or Stalingrad. And, human beings being human beings, I've no doubt that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-1166897354165773352006-12-23T10:09:00.000-08:002006-12-23T10:09:00.000-08:00AnonymousIV sez...Merry Christmas, y'all.AnonymousIV sez...<BR/><BR/>Merry Christmas, y'all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-1166682049361267862006-12-20T22:20:00.000-08:002006-12-20T22:20:00.000-08:00Did I just read that Mark S. said something about ...Did I just read that Mark S. said something about the administration now discounting the importance of OBL in "the war against terror" - couldn't tell if he was fogging up the point or not. (I'm not, these days, reading more then 2 or 3 lines of his; depending on others to summarize.)<BR/><BR/>But this from the WSJ I found interesting; think it shows that the administration continues to take Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-1166664295846675162006-12-20T17:24:00.000-08:002006-12-20T17:24:00.000-08:00Except, as noted by Victor and others in the comme...Except, as noted by Victor and others in the comments, Mark tends to hold a very idealized view of past conflicts based on his standard for contemporary ones. So that's a useful bubble that needs to be popped, if for no other reason than that it is factually untrue.torquemada05https://www.blogger.com/profile/02007449752650768676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-1166664181556535962006-12-20T17:23:00.000-08:002006-12-20T17:23:00.000-08:00The CIA did resort to some very controversial and ...The CIA did resort to some very controversial and morally objectionable tactics during the Cold War -- see <A HREF="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/index.htm" REL="nofollow">Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past (NSA Archives)</A><BR/><BR/>What I found interesting when reading up on this is that it was none other than Richard Cheney -- whom Mark accuses as "wanting more Abu Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30405512.post-1166652373466964532006-12-20T14:06:00.000-08:002006-12-20T14:06:00.000-08:00Mark's mistatement of Victor's views here borders ...Mark's mistatement of Victor's views here borders on the comical, but let me mount the following, limited defense: <BR/><BR/>While it's clear that some American solders did torture and abuse enemy POWs during WWII, it's not at all clear that these acts served any military purpose or that they played any significant role in our winning the war. So they don't serve to disprove Mark's claim that we Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com