Comments on: Hillary Clinton: Experience in watching genocide ignored or just lying in wait?

By: Buck Burris

Buck Burris — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:58:52 +0000

I strongly suggest that Americans read Harvey Cleckley’s “Masks of Sanity” or Robert Hare’s “Without Conscience” aqnd start thinking more carefully about her political leaders. We have had several recently whose behavior fits the description of the sociopaths in Cleckley’s book. We can do better, but only if we pay better attention and reason more carefully. Lying — especially unnecessarily! — is no laughing matter. But it does tell us something of the character of the person doing it.
Those who understand the behavior patterns of sociopaths are not surprised by the seemingly incomprehensible behavior of such powerful politicians as George W. Bush, Gov. Spitzer of New York, or Hillary Clinton. Nor are they eager to be ruled by such persons.

By: latinovoter1

latinovoter1 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:19:25 +0000

Hillary is a MONSTER!

By: Lyndall Beddy

Lyndall Beddy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:45:17 +0000

The Americans have always tried to save the world. My great great great grandfather was an American missionary. My American family helped fund Sol Plaatjies.Why not help them?

By: Owen

Owen — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:53:02 +0000

@ Micheal ‘Americans …. the world, the very least they — and indeed the rest of us — should expect is someone that is considered honest and trustworthy.

Why do you then support an amnesty for JZ and the arms deal????

By: Lyndall Beddy

Lyndall Beddy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:46:17 +0000

Both Mohammed and the Zulu king had multiple wives for reasons. They were both trying to combine scattered tribes or clans into a nation.There had to be a representative (or wife) for each clan.They were representatives of their people. I suspect they were more likely chosen for their brains than their looks.

By: Lyndall Beddy

Lyndall Beddy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:34:27 +0000

The only people who can deprogramme the suicide bombers are their teachers. Change their mindset first! Only Muslim scholars will be able to do that.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:29:37 +0000

Does America have anything to gain for the benefit of the American people by getting involved in Darfur and Zimbabwe?

If the answer’s no, stay well clear. It’s not America’s problem.

It’s the AU’s problem. Or, if the AU are too inept (and they almost certainly are) then it’s the task of UN (who only exist thanks to lavish USA funding) who are specifically set up to sort out the mess which Africans have routinely created in their own states.

To expect the USA to nanny the whole planet is, frankly, unreasonable. Especially if they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

Don’t is the cheaper, less painful route to this inescapable damnation. It’s the sensible route.

By: BLACKLISTED DICTATOR

BLACKLISTED DICTATOR — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:35:47 +0000

Traps,
Is there any way that you could put yourself forward as Secretary of State in the next Obama administration? You really have a profound understanding for the foreign policy errors that The US has made during the Bush and Clinton administrations and I am sure that the world will be a much better place under your guidance.
You state that the war in Iraq may have been illegal. Perhaps Turnbull and Associates could prosecute the Bush administration?

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:04:44 +0000

Whenever the Republicans have intervened, it’s because they have felt that this intervention is somehow going to bring good things for AMERICA. Those good things may be oil, or prestige, or regional economic advantage, or a boost to sales of American goods or any combination of these. They aren’t intervening to do good deeds of fraternal charity and sisterly mercy and paternalistic altruism.

They’re intervening to obtain American gain for the American people who democratically mandated them to do this on their behalf.

They’re looking after Number One.

Nothing wrong with that, as I see it?

By: Noam Chomsky Wannabee

Noam Chomsky Wannabee — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:59:46 +0000

Generally America as Chomsky points out does not have double standards but single standards. There are certains bodies that count and certain ones that don’t count. Atrocities committed by our enemies (Darfur, Communist Russia, Sadam Hussein) are serious and need to be stopped, atrocities committed by our friends (Suharto, Israel, El Salvador, previous South American dictatorships) are not atrocities at all. They are benign interventions. Atrocities committed by people in out of teh way places who are not our friends or enemies (Rwanda, Bosnia) are not really much to worry about.