Comments on: Lecturehop: How Not to Fix the Middle East

By: disgusted

disgusted — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:43 +0000

let’s see.. israel-based, jewish, AIPAC-affiliated, supports the wars in the middle east.. this guy just REEKS of zionism. disgusting.. a disgrace to columbia and an undervaluation of my education

By: How to fix

How to fix — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:09:21 +0000

The Middle East: Give India clearance to lay Pakistan to waste and move into Afghanistan. We destroy Iran by bombing their military bases to hell and then invading with most of the Marines. We send half of the Army to aid Israel in destroying Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon. We send the half the special ops forces and half the army to organize the Armenians, Greeks and Kurds and invite the Serbians to invade Turkey. Then the Greeks and Armenians split Turkey up. If the Kurds agree to convert away from the religion of peace then they will be welcomed to their original lands. We send the remaining special ops and various forces who have completed their missions to invade Saudia Arabia. The Air force will concentrate on Mecca, making sure the Kabbah is nothing but a smoking hole in the ground. Then, provided that the remaining citizens of the middle east convert away from Islam (and burn their korans as evidence) we will have fixed the middle east.

By: huh?

huh? — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:58:31 +0000

Well, I knew I was using the word loosely, but didn’t realize how loosely. Yes, that’s right, too eager to throw the poster’s own pejorative back at him/her. What I really meant ot criticize was they seemed like either a partisan or ideologue.

By: fix-it

fix-it — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:15:23 +0000

“He provided a rigorous framework to reevaluate Columbia’s own policy in the Middle East.” Surely it should read “reevaluate America’s own policy in the Middle East.” Columbia is big, but not that big.

By: Sure

Sure — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:56:12 +0000

Sure, she could have included all of that. But it looks like you already knew it all.

By: in all honesty

in all honesty — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:26:40 +0000

“A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer.”

The commenter doesn’t seem like a shill. Maybe you meant “shrill”?

By: huh?

huh? — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:03:33 +0000

Are you serious? Stop attacking your fellow students and grow up. Jeesh, your response is incredibly harsh and mean-spirited. Maybe you would be justified if Sabel got some major facts wrong, but she’s just reporting what happened at a lecture, not doing opposition-research on the speaker! You betray your own “shill” status in your ridiculous post; just for example: “it would be nice if this article was slightly informing and used the world neoconservative.” Oh, yes, neoconservative! I really wish it used that word, that way we could really, really expose Martin Kramer as a fraud! Haha – are you a freshman? Because you sound very foolish.

By: I second that uh

I second that uh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:38:05 +0000

If Claire Sabel wants to continue masquerading as a journalist, perhaps she could also mention Kramer’s ties with the Giuliani campaign (gulp), his slander against academics like Rashid Khalidi (especially during last year’s rather sleazy election ploy), his love of AIPAC and the promotion of HR3077, and his general lack of irony which manifests itself in his habit of labeling anyone critical of Israel as \extreme\.

I’m not suggesting that Sabel simply to brush off Kramer as a partisan shill (I reserve such tactics for Kramer), but it would be nice if this article was slightly informing and used the word \neoconservative\?

Thank you Bwog correspondent Sabel for generally wasting our time. You’ll be big at the Washington Post…

By: uh...

uh... — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:58:40 +0000

Professor Martin Kramer teaches where, exactly? don’t you think this is pertinent information for this article? you don’t say where he teaches or where he does his work, only that he got his MA from columbia 30 years ago.