Comments on: A good question http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/17/a-good-question/ None Sine Causa Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: k. pablo http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/17/a-good-question/#comment-4479 k. pablo Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:30:49 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/17/a-good-question/#comment-4479 You have given him the characteristically thoughtful and rational reply we've come to expect of you, Dave. But his question is as simple-minded as it is inflammatory. It is a no-brainer that true Islamophobes (or others who have essentially consigned muslims to the Hopeless Troublemaker category) wouldn't be particularly put-out by the idea of bombing them into the paleolithic era. Thus such people would mindlessly support any warmaking that affected Them and not Us, with a sly wink in the general direction of spreading Democracy. But that kind of characterization of neo-cons displays insight no more acute than that of the average six-year-old, and debate no more refined than the average sandbox hissy fit. Your patience for slumming continues to amaze me. You have given him the characteristically thoughtful and rational reply we’ve come to expect of you, Dave. But his question is as simple-minded as it is inflammatory. It is a no-brainer that true Islamophobes (or others who have essentially consigned muslims to the Hopeless Troublemaker category) wouldn’t be particularly put-out by the idea of bombing them into the paleolithic era. Thus such people would mindlessly support any warmaking that affected Them and not Us, with a sly wink in the general direction of spreading Democracy.

But that kind of characterization of neo-cons displays insight no more acute than that of the average six-year-old, and debate no more refined than the average sandbox hissy fit. Your patience for slumming continues to amaze me.

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