[Urbane Guerrilla]

Not negotiating with al-Qaeda does not define stupidity and cannot define stupidity -- as long as al-Qaeda doesn't want to negotiate. You're being unfair to Republicans because they're Republicans, tw. Please take your delusional bigotry elsewhere before I put it someplace that will make you walk very oddly on departing.

You have yet again disgraced yourself, btw.

Don't for one minute fall for myths promoted by wacko and religious extremists - that Americans are the good guys. One benchmark for identifying the myopic and potentially 'evil' ones? They view in terms of "good verses evil" rather than a world full of perspectives.

I see, along with your inability to spell versus -- you're really not very good at foreign terminology, you know -- that you're still trying, in the old Soviet manner, to tell us there is no basis for seeing that we have, and are a living example of, a solution to the world's ills. This tired old Sixties-leftism claptrap will not suffice, tw, except for those as thickheaded as yourself. That is almost no one on this board, come to think of it.

Too many still never learned lessons even taught by Kennedy and Khrushchev that one October when American and Soviet 'big dics' tried to destroy the world.

That is exactly the thing they did not do -- and I think a more careful reading of the Cuban Missile Crisis will show that. Both sides knew what might have happened; neither side wanted to make that happen. But then, are we to be surprised when tw deals in half truths?

Tw also needs perpetual reminding that for the "unnecessary deaths" he decries so vehemently, you cannot beat the Communists. But oh, no -- criticizing the Communists doesn't accord with tw's extremist agenda, and you'll never hear him do it. I've been listening for this for a couple of years now, and the lack of fire against the Communists tells me what tw is.

That was when America kept doing things that made Russian security threatened. America was building bases that surrounded Russia. NATO forces were being deployed closer to Russia.

It is clear that tw believes this implicitly and literally. So also, in my experience, did the Soviet propaganda mongers, who promulgated this very idea, inside the USSR and out -- in case anyone might be listening.

All this started with George Jr whose staff had even written a memo saying that the United States should be ready to unilaterally attack Russia, Germany, or India. Why? The objective was to keep the United Stated number one at all costs.

I'm sure of two things: either this will remain unsourced, or a complete reading of the matter will show quite a different slant. Expect tw to deal in half truths only. He probably got all excited about a war plan, devised well ahead of events as a plan for what to do about prosecuting a war. They keep them on file, you know.

The people who insist that we are damaged strike me as myopic and as fatuous. Fatuity is not good for foreign policy.