This....(Froomkin quoting I-Won't-Type-His-Name)

[Aviation Pro]

...Shitstain Asshole is bugfuck insane. From today's Froomkin:

As for Lewis, here's Cheney's quote yesterday: "Dr. Bernard Lewis explained the terrorists' reasoning this way: 'During the Cold War,' Dr. Lewis wrote, 'two things came to be known and generally recognized in the Middle East concerning the two rival superpowers. If you did anything to annoy the Russians, punishment would be swift and dire. If you said or did anything against the Americans, not only would there be no punishment; there might even be some possibility of reward, as the usual anxious procession of diplomats and politicians, journalists and scholars and miscellaneous others came with their usual pleading inquiries: "What have we done to offend you? What can we do to put it right?"' End quote."

Two things Shoots-Guy-In-Face:

1. We won the Cold War that you're trying to restart.
2. You fucking admire Soviet tactics? Which fucking side are you on, you limp-dicked, fuckwad of a draft dodger?

[Jim__]

1. So, judging by history, which tactics work, Dick?

Or, are you capable of grasping that simple fact?

[MrModerate]

2. Not to mention that truth is no bar to his bloviation . . .

In that the Soviets absorbed any number of "annoyances" from clients and satraps without doing squat, because (outside of a rathion of ideology that had to be trotted out whenever they spoke to the REMFs at home) they were mostly realists rather than fabulists.

And yes, Americans *are* more likely to "feel your pain" than committed Stalinists.

I know the world will be shocked to read such a radical assessment.