First and foremost please stop saying Iranian Regime and its proxies and start saying American regime and its Israeli Proxies, or if you prfere, the other way around. Secondly in common with most Western commentary, the only regime with nulcear weapons in the Middle East is Israel, which is committing Genocide as we speak and now enganged in and dragging the US in an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression on Iran. What use your scholarship or intellectual rigour, if you do not have the moral fibre or a concience to condemn acts of blatant illegality by the US and Israel.
That's a valid point. Isreal has had the bomb for decades and no one has felt the need to stop them. The Iranians should point that out and see if Bibi denies.
Words are important. I think both ways of talking about regimes keeps them on the same footing especially when they are both acting in a similar way. Trump and Netanyahu are in many ways committing a despicable act.(Biden participated) But so did Bush and Cheney under the false pretense of the Iraq War. You loose much of your argument though when you accuse someone of limited moral fiber. Seems you cast that stone without considering the many possible outcomes of your decision.
I admit that I should not make an ad hominem comment on Mr. Bernstein, whom I normally admire for his analytical rigour. However, when he or any other intellectual is mainly concerned with the economic impact of the conflct not its morality or illegality, I cannot but conlcude economics without geo politics is a soulless condition. What would he say if Trump nukes Iran. Would he tut tut and worry that Oil prices will go through the roof? It is like some economist back in 1938, writing about the disruption of trade in Easttern Europe when Germany invaded Czechoslavakia.
Well said. A stove pipe thinking on just one topic like economics can distort the understanding of a complex and integrated subject. It takes a concerted effort and a lot of words to give a comprehensive overview of the US, Israeli Palestinian, and Iranian geo-political muck-up. A dozen books, maybe!?
Spinach is better than lettuce on a bacon and tomato sandwich.
For one thing, it reminds me of what one gets at an afternoon meeting with a Member of Parliament.
BS&T[ea].
Happy am I to live within shopping distance of a community-scale protein processing facility, thanks to the USDA-funded Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, w,hose Wolfpack Meats sells nice, meaty, farm-raised bacon, as well as proof that 10^7 coyotes can't be wrong: Nevada lamb is very good.
Alas, until Fair season is over there will be no more bacon. The 4-H projects still have trotters attached.
I like spinach!!
Sure, but I'm talking about "*budget* spinach." Agree re regular spinach.
Jared, spinach is in the eye of the beholder. Your spinach is my pizza. So stop apologizing !!!
First and foremost please stop saying Iranian Regime and its proxies and start saying American regime and its Israeli Proxies, or if you prfere, the other way around. Secondly in common with most Western commentary, the only regime with nulcear weapons in the Middle East is Israel, which is committing Genocide as we speak and now enganged in and dragging the US in an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression on Iran. What use your scholarship or intellectual rigour, if you do not have the moral fibre or a concience to condemn acts of blatant illegality by the US and Israel.
That's a valid point. Isreal has had the bomb for decades and no one has felt the need to stop them. The Iranians should point that out and see if Bibi denies.
Mr. Bernstein can’t criticize the US-Israeli empire. He owes his livelihood to it, and hopes to return to a position of power within it.
Words are important. I think both ways of talking about regimes keeps them on the same footing especially when they are both acting in a similar way. Trump and Netanyahu are in many ways committing a despicable act.(Biden participated) But so did Bush and Cheney under the false pretense of the Iraq War. You loose much of your argument though when you accuse someone of limited moral fiber. Seems you cast that stone without considering the many possible outcomes of your decision.
I admit that I should not make an ad hominem comment on Mr. Bernstein, whom I normally admire for his analytical rigour. However, when he or any other intellectual is mainly concerned with the economic impact of the conflct not its morality or illegality, I cannot but conlcude economics without geo politics is a soulless condition. What would he say if Trump nukes Iran. Would he tut tut and worry that Oil prices will go through the roof? It is like some economist back in 1938, writing about the disruption of trade in Easttern Europe when Germany invaded Czechoslavakia.
Well said. A stove pipe thinking on just one topic like economics can distort the understanding of a complex and integrated subject. It takes a concerted effort and a lot of words to give a comprehensive overview of the US, Israeli Palestinian, and Iranian geo-political muck-up. A dozen books, maybe!?
I hope everyone remembers the Movie “Wag the Dog.” (1997, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro)
republicans lie all the time, they will blow off the parliamentarian.
At some point they will blow off the parliamentarian. She has no legal power. Taking health care from people might be cruel enough to trigger them.
They already ignored the parliamentarian when they purportedly overruled California's Clean Air Act preemption exception
Spinach is better than lettuce on a bacon and tomato sandwich.
For one thing, it reminds me of what one gets at an afternoon meeting with a Member of Parliament.
BS&T[ea].
Happy am I to live within shopping distance of a community-scale protein processing facility, thanks to the USDA-funded Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, w,hose Wolfpack Meats sells nice, meaty, farm-raised bacon, as well as proof that 10^7 coyotes can't be wrong: Nevada lamb is very good.
Alas, until Fair season is over there will be no more bacon. The 4-H projects still have trotters attached.
De gustibus non disputandum est.
The bombing was to take our eyes off the budget chicanery, pure and simple.