Comments on: You better start behaving before dad cuts your allowance

By: DJ Drrrty Poonjabi

DJ Drrrty Poonjabi — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:57:57 +0000

Welcome home, Salil.

By: Salil Maniktahla

Salil Maniktahla — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:03:44 +0000

Sheesh. A guy disappears for a few months and comes back, and...well. Nothing's changed at all.

Well, almost nothing. The overall coherency of the debate seems to have lost some ground. But what it's lost in grammatical correctness and the proper placement of articles, it seems to have gained in sheer emotional volume.

Anyone feel like it's kind of shrill around here? A little louder, please, the neighbor's dog hasn't started barking yet.

By: Ponniyin Selvan

Ponniyin Selvan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:43:33 +0000

Coming back to PL-480, there have been enough assertions and counter-assertions and the waters are murky enough, that I wont be as sure as you are that it was beneficial in the long run.

India used to suffer famine conditions frequently, more than a million folks died just in early 1940s. That has been the thing of the past after India attained Independence due to help from many places and more importantly United States. Now India is self sufficient in food production and even exporting food grains. What exactly is the "long run" ??. I know that many "five star activists" / "NGO" live off other people's problems. I find nothing wrong with that too.. If you can shoot some "videos" of starving kids in Somalia and make money off it, go ahead.

By: Thalassa

Thalassa — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:57:48 +0000

Ok, my bad SM folks. I forgot the very first advice in your note to commenters. I’ll refrain from feeding the trolls.

By: Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery

Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:53:01 +0000

As long as the War on Drugs, War on Poverty and all other Wars on Eternally-Unsolvable-Problems last.

Well put. When Moornam is not being a Hinduvta flag bearer, he actually does make some good points!

By: No von Mises

No von Mises — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:32:07 +0000

As much as I hate to recall the sophistry of Tom Friedman, I really do think a lot of this depends on how the West, India, and China start dealing with the problem of excessive oil consumption.

Sriram, you've hated to mention Tom Friedman on more than one occasion so I think you'll enjoy a parody of the specious one.

By: Classical Liberal Warrior Against Terror

Classical Liberal Warrior Against Terror — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:53:41 +0000

dont know why the links got screwed up http://www.amazon.com/Two-Faces-Islam-Fundamentalism-Terrorism/dp/1400030455/sr=1-1/qid=1172698860/ref=sr_1_1/105-5281626-2341226?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/index.html

By: Classical Liberal Warrior Against Terror

Classical Liberal Warrior Against Terror — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:49:41 +0000

Here\'s a few dated resources for those who want to explore this topic stephen schwartz book on sauid role{link}

9-11 commision report, Its a pain in the gand to read but if you are following this topic closely you know its been edited to remove saudi role...{link}

who knows saudi arabia might be the mecca for terrorist related funding

By: MoorNam

MoorNam — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:50:28 +0000

How long will war on terror last?

As long as the War on Drugs, War on Poverty and all other Wars on Eternally-Unsolvable-Problems last.

M. Nam

By: Thalassa

Thalassa — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:15:10 +0000

Havent you been following the thread, there are those who fervently believe that some of these countries have nothing to do with terrorism.

Do not twist my words. I said nothing of the sort. I said that there is no proof that UAE and Saudi Arabia are state sponsors of terrorism and I stand by my statement.

By your logic countries like Malaysia, Britain, Egypt are also terrorism sponsors given their citizens have been involved in acts of terrorism. There's a world of difference between citizens in their individual capacity working as terrorists and the entire state machinery supporting terrorist acts.