Comments on: Why You No Post (on Iraq)? https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/10/why-you-no-post-on-iraq/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: AndrewSshi https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/10/why-you-no-post-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4437 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:21:24 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=441#comment-4437 Long time lurker here. I finally registered to say that if you’ve got linguists who promote anarcho-syndicalism, you can surely have an Africa specialist talk about the Middle East. You need to embrace your inner blowhard. 😉

]]> By: Isaac https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/10/why-you-no-post-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4436 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:02:46 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=441#comment-4436 “I would rather that energy go into a process of investigating the planning and conduct of the war to date.”

Really? That should still be up for debate? We invaded a country based completely on hollow lies.

Now we should discuss how such lies would have been better served?

It was a hatchet-job from the jump. We never should have invaded and we don’t belong there now. No debate necessary, just a bit of reality.

]]> By: Doug https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/10/why-you-no-post-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4434 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:56:12 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=441#comment-4434 I think that unless there’s a big push for coming home now, our people won’t be coming home later either. It’s the pressure for doing it immediately that makes it possible to do it a little bit further down the road. If the folks who want to get our service men and women out of the middle of a civil war don’t make a huge fuss, the friends of perpetual occupation will keep kicking the start of the return a Friedman Unit or two down the road. Whether they are kicking it down the road sincerely or cynically is immaterial, it is a recipe for preserving the status quo. So there needs to be pressure to bring them home NOW in order to get what you’re aiming at.

But for folks on your side in general, the propositions you’re putting forward complement the effort to end our war in Iraq. Stopping the war is part and parcel of rolling back the claims of the unitary executive. A wartime footing is not conducive to an open society. The excuse of the war will be convenient for the war party in everything it does. Stopping the war — the sooner the better — will advance the agenda you discuss here, and vice versa. This is a positive-sum game.

]]> By: kiita https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/10/10/why-you-no-post-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4425 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:37:29 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=441#comment-4425 I appreciate this post and the previous one, “Third Way.” As a scholar with parallel interests in comparative empires, I struggle with how to position myself in these debates. I find these posts helpful in that regard.

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