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Comment on God as a Convenient Falsehood in The Invention of Lying by Odette Beneke

Odette Beneke — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:08:53 +0000

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Comment on Terrorizing Terrorists by Brian

Brian — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:05:29 +0000

I have not seen the argument for Predator drone strikes in Pakistan better made than in your piece. For once it seems we are able to fight fire with fire and combat terrorists without having one hand tied behind our backs.

Comment on Nightmare in the Middle East by Phadellos

Phadellos — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:40:02 +0000

Taliban is an Afghan solution to an Afghan problem. we leave the country be during the ruinous civil war and when at last peace and security return to the afgahn for the first time in a decades, we came in and start another war. I doubt the reason of the war is as much about bin laden as it is about our hostility for the taliban itself. If there’s no Osama in Afghan, we would’ve find other excuse to invade. and our choice of allies couldn’t be worse. we were allied with the very peoples that make Afghan lives miserable in the first place. the coalition of thugs, drug lords and war criminals called northern alliance. this choice haunt us till this day. the corruption run rampant and the drug production in record high. Though American media try hard to portray that we have popular support from a majority of the afghan populations, the fact on the ground say’s otherwise.

Comment on Nightmare in the Middle East by Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:22:42 +0000

Israel as civilizations last hope? WOW! I stopped reading after that…you’re obviously waaaaay too ignorant to write anything about the middle east…

Comment on Nightmare in the Middle East by Philip

Philip — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:39:26 +0000

I started reading this article hoping for an honest analysis and I came away tasting blood I was biting my tongue so hard. This exemplifies how and why Americans are so misinformed about international affairs. This piece is wrought with cherries like “(Israel is) Civilization’s last hope in the region” and “(Yemen) the most-backward country in this stubbornly backward region” and is punctuated with the classic “Ameri’cuh” sentiment that Muslims=backwards terrorists. I half expected the classic “Let’s just turn the whole place into a parking lot” line at the end. Hope the few Americans who read this piece don’t take it as an educated assessment of the Middle East. Not only is this piece ignorant of the beauty of foreign culture but it also disrespectful to anyone who isn’t American or Israeli. Write a hate-piece somewhere else.

Comment on Nightmare in the Middle East by Mann

Mann — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:51:33 +0000

Please get you facts right before you claim you are the “expert”.

“Rafik, was assassinated by Syria” ? when was this decided? by what court? yours?

There are so much misinformation in your article it is not worth commenting.

Comment on Nightmare in the Middle East by Akhil Rana

Akhil Rana — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:50:39 +0000

Brilliant piece by Ralph Peters, not only has he used his military experience but he is also aware about the length and breadth of the issue. In my opinion, its time Washington establishes strong Military ties with India. India may be second to China in its Military strength, but its goodwill in the region is unquestionable! With 62 yrs of responsible actions, U.S must help India in technology sector and Arms development, increase trade with India. I see U.S and India as nations with strategic interests like no other two nations. Need not to say that India will stand with the U.S to pursue China to appreciate its currency that is hitting U.S economy the most!

Comment on Nightmare in the Middle East by Dr Zaius

Dr Zaius — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:47:09 +0000

Wow. Just about the best analysis of the state of the Middle East I’ve read. My kudos are only tempered by the fact that everything you say scares the s*** out of me.

Comment on When Scientists Lie by Victor Huynh

Victor Huynh — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:57:14 +0000

Common! Not all scientists are lying!
I think you suspect too much!

Comment on God as a Convenient Falsehood in The Invention of Lying by Mari Agev

Mari Agev — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:05:16 +0000

God isn’t meant to be understood or put into our own small box of understanding. Human pride leads us to believe that we can understand everything if we think long and hard about it and research it. People are always arguing about the evolution theory. Read Darwin’s “Origin of Species” and you will find that in absolutely no part in the book does the author mention exactly what the origin of species is. There is no definite answer there, so the man who came up with the theory had no real evidence.

When you make something, like a car, and then another, like a motorcycle, there are many elements in the car that you will find in a motorcycle. If you are an inventor and have made many different things, you will find that you have used certain techniques and mechanisms over and over for different inventions that perform different tasks. Why would you use the same mechanism for machines with different purposes? Because IT WORKS! So the whole “we have common ancestry with bats because of bones in our arms being similar” is weak. And the argument over having common ancestry with whales (and that they used to walk on land) because they have pelvic bones is completely bogus! Human’s have the pelvic bone to help hold our organs, support our vertebral column from the weight of our bodies, and support a developing fetus. Whales are mammals, they give birth, they have internal organs. So why wouldn’t the Creator give His creations similar bodily functions with the intention of performing the same tasks?

Our cells are too complex to have been evolved from a single celled organism. If so, then how did that organism form? Sure we need oxygen to live but oxygen is one of the worst things to be around for an organism to bond and form a living life with.

Also, how do you explain how our solar system isn’t part of any of the other clusters in the universe? It’s as though our solar system was formed with the intention and means of keeping life on our planet functioning.

If you truly, and I mean truly, research the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, you will find that there is no real evidence that he didn’t exist and die and come back to life. Many skeptics have converted because the truth is so blatantly obvious. If you are just going to sit around and base your beliefs on what other people think and hours of pondering about things without even going out to find out for yourself, then don’t go around knocking down God.

Everyone is always attacking God and Christianity. It’s okay to offend Christians but attack a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Buddist, or a believer of any other religion and people get angry and would tell the offender that they must apologize, yadda yadda yadda.

Yes, people have the argument that many Christians are hypocrites, well, there are hypocrites everywhere you go and in every religion.

So again, go do your own research, real research, and then you can come up with your own conclusions.