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Forum: Diavlog comments 11-28-2011, 11:37 PM
Replies: 212
Views: 21,874
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Lessons Learned: Iraq War Redux? (Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt)

I think it's fairly obvious why the Center didn't ask that question: it's not a good question. Most experienced researchers would recognize that sort of question to be presumptuous. It is not...
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-28-2011, 10:20 PM
Replies: 212
Views: 21,874
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Lessons Learned: Iraq War Redux? (Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt)

Your statement couldn't be farther from the truth.

2011 Arab Public Opinion (http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2011/1121_arab_public_opinion_telhami.aspx)


The Arab-Israeli Issue
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-27-2011, 09:06 PM
Replies: 212
Views: 21,874
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Lessons Learned: Iraq War Redux? (Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt)

One Palestine, Complete puts the lie to your counterclaim. Don't let the present geopolitics of Arab-Jewish relations constrain your imagination of what is possible in theory and practice.
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-27-2011, 04:31 PM
Replies: 212
Views: 21,874
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Lessons Learned: Iraq War Redux? (Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt)

Neither the British nor the UN had the right to dispose of Palestine. Similarly, the US Supreme Court had no right to decide the plight of Cherokee lands, even though it did so favorably to some...
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-26-2011, 10:07 PM
Replies: 157
Views: 21,047
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Is US decline in the eye of the beholder?

Whenever American exceptionalism is called into question in the popular media the tendency is always dismiss it as a fad. In point of fact, when you read a serious discussion like Wallerstein's The...
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-25-2011, 12:53 PM
Replies: 212
Views: 21,874
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt

On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Richard Haas claims the IAEA report pulls together all this evidence about Iran program that points to its desire to weaponize its program. Iran responds to IAEA...
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-24-2011, 02:04 PM
Replies: 157
Views: 21,047
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Values Added: The Whirligig of Time (Glenn Loury & Walter Russell Mead)

I think this is the elephant in the room: white supremacy. Ironic how American support for Israel against its own national interests can be attributed to a "complex set of factors" with little or no...
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-24-2011, 01:25 AM
Replies: 212
Views: 21,874
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Lessons Learned: Iraq War Redux? (Robert Wright & Heather Hurlburt)

I completely agree. When Heather proclaims at the outset that Iran's hostility toward its neighbors is indisputable, I thought maybe she should inform the Arab street of all this hostitly, 64%...
Forum: Diavlog comments 11-01-2011, 07:12 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 10,813
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Values Added: Capitalism and Its Discontents (John McWhorter & Glenn Loury)

I'd like to second this post. I was especially put off by John's dismissive, snobbish tone. I can think of two more goals I'd like this movement (if it can be called a movement) to adopt: (1) push to...
Forum: Diavlog comments 05-25-2011, 10:31 PM
Replies: 220
Views: 28,987
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Cosmopolitian disdain

Ouch!
Forum: Diavlog comments 03-26-2011, 03:08 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 18,097
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Rave On (Robert Wright & Ann Althouse)

Ann has a thing about drums . . . interesting how tribalism and drums go together in her mind.
Forum: Diavlog comments 02-20-2011, 11:11 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 16,665
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: RACISM and the STUDY OF HUMAN ORIGINS

Someone should dig up Wolpoff'S past lectures on multiregionalism and the "Out of Africa" because I know there is at least one I recall hearing in college that demonstrated to me his utter contempt...
Forum: Diavlog comments 12-15-2010, 11:43 PM
Replies: 82
Views: 19,540
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: The Scandal of the Cross (Robert P. George & Cornel West)

Greed is bad (http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/32935?in=26:55&out=27:06)

Spiritual malnutrition and moral constipation. Classic Cornel West. lmao!
Forum: Diavlog comments 10-11-2010, 11:00 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 14,153
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: "Creeping Shariah"

I agree.

Dr. Jackson would be a great choice to discuss Shariah here, along with another scholar, maybe Tariq Ramadhan? I say Tariq because Muslims in Europe have similar challenges.
Forum: Diavlog comments 10-11-2010, 06:20 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 14,153
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: "Creeping Shariah"

The exchange about the absurdity of creeping shariah was a missed opportunity. Rather than dwell on the absurdity of imposing shariah, why not use that time to actually explain what in fact is the...
Forum: Diavlog comments 10-07-2010, 01:39 AM
Replies: 116
Views: 19,420
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Values Added: Immigration (Simone Campbell & Mark Krikorian)

May be not the worst but she certainly is near the top.
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-28-2010, 05:50 PM
Replies: 80
Views: 12,033
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Greg Mortenson

It is an entirely plausible proposition that if you look at the regions around the world where gender inequality is the greatest (in favor of men, of course), literacy levels among men will be the...
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-28-2010, 03:05 PM
Replies: 80
Views: 12,033
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Greg Mortenson

Great reply, Preppy. I was thinking along the same lines when I read Jeff's question. The goal is to advance the country as a whole, and to do that you need to address the educational needs of...
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-27-2010, 01:32 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 11,715
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Science Saturday: War of the Doves (Robert Wright & John Horgan)

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/31183?in=39:01&out=39:26

Now who would've thought that John's entire journalistic and/or intellectual project boils down to:
...
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-22-2010, 11:02 PM
Replies: 178
Views: 30,179
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Big Government Libertarianism (Glenn Loury & Jim Pinkerton)

So a purpose of the law is to control and/or minimize an infectious outbreak even though an outbreak may not be imminent. How is that concern any different than a country wanting to reduce public...
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-22-2010, 09:17 PM
Replies: 178
Views: 30,179
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Big Government Libertarianism (Glenn Loury & Jim Pinkerton)

I stand corrected.
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-22-2010, 09:16 PM
Replies: 178
Views: 30,179
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Big Government Libertarianism (Glenn Loury & Jim Pinkerton)

What is the serious epidemiological concern behind State Law (I presume in all states) requiring public school employees have updated TB tests every three years or so?
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-22-2010, 09:00 PM
Replies: 178
Views: 30,179
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Big Government Libertarianism (Glenn Loury & Jim Pinkerton)

Putting forth a public health rationale doesn't equate to "immigrants are diseased". How do you make that leap?
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-22-2010, 08:55 PM
Replies: 178
Views: 30,179
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Big Government Libertarianism (Glenn Loury & Jim Pinkerton)

I disagree. But if Florian is reading this I'd like to know what he thinks(about "common sense never being an argument"), since he is a trained philosopher.
Forum: Diavlog comments 09-22-2010, 08:46 PM
Replies: 178
Views: 30,179
Posted By grits-n-gravy
Re: Big Government Libertarianism (Glenn Loury & Jim Pinkerton)

Well that's the point. A common sense argument need not be 'made'. It's truthfulness, i.e. the need for border security, is prima facie.
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