Comments on: Making Contributions http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Wed, 23 May 2012 23:22:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: George Ajjan http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7625 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:21:50 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7625 Actually from what I hear he remains quite close to McCain despite their disagreements. I do believe anything can happen under the right circumstances. Here's to hope! Actually from what I hear he remains quite close to McCain despite their disagreements. I do believe anything can happen under the right circumstances. Here’s to hope!

]]> by: Daniel Larison http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7621 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:39:33 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7621 If Republican politicians started quoting favourably from my blog, I think it would be a sign of the end times. That's a sad commentary on the state of things, but there it is. William Lind in the Pentagon wouldn't be bad at all. I think Hagel might be a very good Secretary of State. I don't tend to agree with his general foreign policy views, but I do get the sense that he at least has some notion of what he's talking about when he speaks on the subject. The pity is that I can't think of anyone who would appoint him. He's burned his bridges with McCain, the rest are so far out there that they would never even think of it, and no Democrat is going to give such a plum position to someone from the other side. If Republican politicians started quoting favourably from my blog, I think it would be a sign of the end times. That’s a sad commentary on the state of things, but there it is. William Lind in the Pentagon wouldn’t be bad at all. I think Hagel might be a very good Secretary of State. I don’t tend to agree with his general foreign policy views, but I do get the sense that he at least has some notion of what he’s talking about when he speaks on the subject. The pity is that I can’t think of anyone who would appoint him. He’s burned his bridges with McCain, the rest are so far out there that they would never even think of it, and no Democrat is going to give such a plum position to someone from the other side.

]]> by: George Ajjan http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7616 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:56:01 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7616 I'd love to know what percentage of Senators (let alone Congressmen) know that Iranians are not Arab, for example. In the most recent debate, Brownback was quoting from Thomas Friedman on foreign policy. Earlier he advocated engaging with Iranian labor unions. This is the Republican Party? Imagine if there was sensibility and these guys quoted from blogs like ours and a name like William Lind would be bandied about for Secretary of Defense. I hear your frustrations on Hagel. What strongly appealed to me was the fact that he was a mainstream GOP guy (more so that Ron Paul), not to mention a Senator, but went off the reservation on foreign policy sometimes. I would love to see him as a Secretary of State. Sorry to hear about your absence from the JRC, but I'm sure our paths will cross eventually - looking forward to it. George I’d love to know what percentage of Senators (let alone Congressmen) know that Iranians are not Arab, for example.

In the most recent debate, Brownback was quoting from Thomas Friedman on foreign policy. Earlier he advocated engaging with Iranian labor unions. This is the Republican Party?

Imagine if there was sensibility and these guys quoted from blogs like ours and a name like William Lind would be bandied about for Secretary of Defense.

I hear your frustrations on Hagel. What strongly appealed to me was the fact that he was a mainstream GOP guy (more so that Ron Paul), not to mention a Senator, but went off the reservation on foreign policy sometimes. I would love to see him as a Secretary of State.

Sorry to hear about your absence from the JRC, but I’m sure our paths will cross eventually - looking forward to it.

George

]]> by: Daniel Larison http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7613 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:09:00 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7613 Thanks, George. I had missed Brownback's "insight" into Near Eastern history. Not knowing much about the region, he must have assumed that each main community had its own country. I don't know how you can serve in the U.S. Senate and be running for President and believe this, since you would think it is common knowledge that the Kurds have never before had a state of their own, but it does help make sense of why he supports partition. He thinks it means "going back" to the way things used to be. Tommy Thompson is, well, let's just say that foreign policy was never going to be his strong suit. I am willing to consider the possibility that I have been too hard on Hagel in some ways. It just seems to me that he might have done a great deal more, or tried to do a great deal more, especially if he was going to decide to retire from the Senate in any case. Thanks for the link to the syriapol page. I will be interested in reading the blog there in the future. I don't know that I can get away for JRC this month. I have begun teaching, and church-related activities are taking up a fair amount of time this month. I would have been very glad to meet you, but I'm afraid it will have to wait until another time. Thanks, George. I had missed Brownback’s “insight” into Near Eastern history. Not knowing much about the region, he must have assumed that each main community had its own country. I don’t know how you can serve in the U.S. Senate and be running for President and believe this, since you would think it is common knowledge that the Kurds have never before had a state of their own, but it does help make sense of why he supports partition. He thinks it means “going back” to the way things used to be. Tommy Thompson is, well, let’s just say that foreign policy was never going to be his strong suit.

I am willing to consider the possibility that I have been too hard on Hagel in some ways. It just seems to me that he might have done a great deal more, or tried to do a great deal more, especially if he was going to decide to retire from the Senate in any case. Thanks for the link to the syriapol page. I will be interested in reading the blog there in the future.

I don’t know that I can get away for JRC this month. I have begun teaching, and church-related activities are taking up a fair amount of time this month. I would have been very glad to meet you, but I’m afraid it will have to wait until another time.

]]> by: George Ajjan http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7610 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:41:07 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/09/06/making-contributions/#comment-7610 Daniel, Brownback, the genius, apparently never heard of the Ottoman Empire, having said<i>"We need to put a three-state solution in place, like was in Iraq prior to World War I".</i> Tommy Thompson's voluntary ethnic cleansing policy, in which "people will go to those particular territories", (like Protestants left Maryland in droves I suppose), has to rank as one of the silliest proposals in this whole campaign season. I am a fan of Chuck Hagel. He is not as courageous as Ron Paul, Jimmy Duncan, etc., but at least he has the guts to vocally question America's imbalance when it comes to Israel and its neighbors, and as a Secretary of State would probably do a lot more to engage <a href="http://syria.ajjan.com" rel="nofollow">Syria</a>, push for a resolution to the Palestine question, and cool off Iranian tensions. Will you be at the JRC in DC this month? Hope to meet you there. George Daniel,

Brownback, the genius, apparently never heard of the Ottoman Empire, having said“We need to put a three-state solution in place, like was in Iraq prior to World War I”.

Tommy Thompson’s voluntary ethnic cleansing policy, in which “people will go to those particular territories”, (like Protestants left Maryland in droves I suppose), has to rank as one of the silliest proposals in this whole campaign season.

I am a fan of Chuck Hagel. He is not as courageous as Ron Paul, Jimmy Duncan, etc., but at least he has the guts to vocally question America’s imbalance when it comes to Israel and its neighbors, and as a Secretary of State would probably do a lot more to engage Syria, push for a resolution to the Palestine question, and cool off Iranian tensions.

Will you be at the JRC in DC this month? Hope to meet you there.

George

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