tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post7867818803738146575..comments2024-03-23T20:50:38.503-04:00Comments on thwap's schoolyard: Hillary Clinton was Sorta Rightthwaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-68058394588463184752008-01-25T05:54:00.000-05:002008-01-25T05:54:00.000-05:00Tsk-tsk! Hillary's not an ally of discredited neo...Tsk-tsk! Hillary's not an ally of discredited neo-con hack, Michael Ledeen! She's a <I>Democrat</I>, which means, uh, ... um, ... she'll spend a lot more time twisting elbows at the UN before she does anything.<BR/><BR/>But yeah, ... a few missiles lobbed over the US-Canada (or Mexico) border, and she thinks the USA would be as justified as she imagined Israel was, to bomb airports, schools, hospitals, entire cities, ports, roads.<BR/><BR/>Like my WSW link put it:<BR/><BR/>"<I>The analogy is a far-fetched one at best, but she should have continued: “Wouldn’t we bomb apartment buildings in Montreal, demolish Toronto’s international airport, incinerate entire Canadian families in their homes and on the highways, and turn the population of southern Ontario into refugees?”<BR/><BR/>Another border analogy, which more accurately captures the wildly disproportionate character of Israel’s response, would be: “Imagine if members of the right-wing Minutemen group opened fire on Mexican migrants preparing to cross the border and the government of Mexico responded with massive air raids against San Diego, Dallas and Houston, blew up the runways at New York’s JFK airport and sent hundreds of thousands of Americans fleeing north.</I>”thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-56166129438871544252008-01-25T01:09:00.000-05:002008-01-25T01:09:00.000-05:00Yeah, you'll think "warm and fuzzy" when she uses ...Yeah, you'll think "warm and fuzzy" when she uses that statement while authorizin' the assault. <BR/><BR/>"Invade Canada...the next country we choose to grab by the throat and throw against the wall!"trog69https://www.blogger.com/profile/00448911131570383708noreply@blogger.com