tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052951.post110737477201440108..comments2023-12-14T08:22:01.499-05:00Comments on Superannuated Pedagogue: You can count on me...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052951.post-1107634020841209632005-02-05T15:07:00.000-05:002005-02-05T15:07:00.000-05:00The post on Vietnam elections was interesting. Now...The post on Vietnam elections was interesting. Now if the Iraq election would have gone worse and failed would you have posted that article to show that failed elections are good because successful ones didn't work in Vietnam? It would seem that failed elections would break the "parallel" between Iraq and Vietnam so that would have to of been a good thing no? Or would you have simply reinforced your previous comments on the doubts surrounding the election and look at the election as vindication? <br /><br />I am always amused when historians use "parallels" to compare historical events. I've always felt that forming "parallels" was the weakest form of critique or analyses a historian could use. Writing on "parallels" is similar to someone asking why apples fall from trees and answering them with "Apples fall from trees, just like oranges that's just the way it is". So the person goes on with their life knowing that apples fall from trees because oranges do too but one day they run across a pear tree. Now they have a problem, pears don't look like apples or oranges. Oranges and apples are fairly rounded but the pear doesn't look anything like them. It would impossible to use any "parallel" between the fruits. The fault being that when the person first asked the question, the answer should have been gravity but instead, they were told it happens because that’s what happens to other things like it. No one is any smarter from comparing historical events; you get smarted by understanding them and not making cosmetic "parallels".<br /><br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052951.post-1107466726471750562005-02-03T16:38:00.000-05:002005-02-03T16:38:00.000-05:00I don't think that being negative is necessarily w...I don't think that being negative is necessarily wrong if it is based on facts. We should analyze and critque the governments actions because our lives and our future are at stake.<br /><br />I also would like to add the treatment of the Iraqi prisoners is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe that ''there is no legal prohibition under the Convention Against Torture on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment with respect to aliens overseas."<br />I thought this is exactly the opposite of what American represented. What happened to democracy, freedom or humanity?<br /><br />Mirdita SadikuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052951.post-1107464717754229732005-02-03T16:05:00.000-05:002005-02-03T16:05:00.000-05:00Professor Macleod,
http://www.tomdispatch.com/in...Professor Macleod,<br /> <br />http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2158<br /> <br />I retrieved this article from your blog today and I found it to be very interesting, as well as a little frightening. In the wake of 9/11 it is agreeable that there are certain steps that are needed to be taken in securing the American home front. But we should be asking ourselves if these new plans and secret laws are there to protect and serve or rather to search and destroy. <br />The part of this article that hit home with me was the paragraph about the airport security. The fact that there are laws implemented that we have no way of knowing about and are refused knowledge about is unconstitutional. I don't understand why so many people don't see it this way. I think the problem is the fact that nothing real bad has happened yet. Granted Sept. 11th was a horrific event and the current events that are unfolding in Iraq are just as challenging but at home the reality of what is really going on hasn't hit yet. It is my estimation that we wont see the effects of these new laws and new security surveillance systems until much later down the line. The problem is that by then it will already be to late. <br />N.R.P.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052951.post-1107448284511300852005-02-03T11:31:00.000-05:002005-02-03T11:31:00.000-05:00Yes, maybe that is too much information. But I was...Yes, maybe that is too much information. But I was really just trying to avoid telling you what I was really wearing -- my Spiderman underoos!dewar macleodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11630184503431756001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052951.post-1107393279730017552005-02-02T20:14:00.000-05:002005-02-02T20:14:00.000-05:00Too much info on the whole dancing around in under...Too much info on the whole dancing around in underpants bit. I would like to know though how well you think Saddam Hussain would have done if he were on the ballot. This is not for a grade but simply of wonder.<br />ABTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com