One of the best things about this blog is the discussion on the Comments boards. Amazing to think of this globe-circling, multicultural discussion forum under continual development here. However, my own experience and that of many other people who try to post comments is that they now often take a long, long time to post.
I am very sorry about that.
The reason for the delay is the complex anti-spam software we had to put in to save the site from the barrage of extremely nasty, often very pornographic spam that had started to come in.
We haven’t completely solved the spam problem. But we’ve succeeded in blocking a vast proportion of it. The “cost” of doing this is that all incoming comments now go through the very complex series of anti-spam filters we’ve installed. That can take time.
Someone who’s posted a comment may rapidly jump to the conclusion that the attempt to post it failed, and then try again (and again, and again, and again). If you do that, you end up with multiple iterations of the comment on the board. No big problem in that except it’s a bit of a waste of time for the commenter, and for me when I go in to delete the duplicates– and a bit of a distraction for readers.
So I’m afraid I just need to ask you for some patience. Maybe you could go off and visit another JWN post or another website for a minute or two before you come back and check whether your comment has posted. In my experience the comments-posting system is actually working pretty well these days, even if slowly. So you don’t even really need to go back and check, at all.
Except hey, it’s always nice to see one’s own words in “print”, don’t you think?
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It may be the wrong place here, but after the heatetd “yanks” debate, remebrer the tools you have.
Try a google-search “yanks + 1917” and the answer is clear. Go to wikipedia and you don’t know who is insulted.
Best greetings
Jaan Kaes
Sorry: Go to wikipedia “yankee” and you don’t know who is insulted.
Next best greetings
Jaan Kaes
Hey Jon did’t know you are reading this too :0. Greets
Note to the reader – running statistic – in my 11 posts here, twice my IP address has been banned without explanation, 7 posts have been censored without due explanation, and 4 posts have been allowed. This post is a repeat of deleted material.
Tony – This has got to be the funniest, most eager nonsense I’ve read since Juan Cole’s famous “transcendent nationalism” in reference to Muqtada’s ill-fated and ill-conceived campaign back in 2003 (see his remarkably silly Le Monde Diplomatique piece at the time). You’ve just repeated that laughable line. Please get over yourself and your ideological premises (and all the [arab] nationalist mixed with Third Worldist undertones). It’s quite the silly spectacle.
Beautifully said Tony.
The problem that the nihilists and leftist-fascists have in their analysis of Iraq is that they deny that Iraqis (and by extension human beings) have aspirations besides power grabbing, ideological and opportunistic ruling on others, and cheap false nationalism (nationalism is better described as social egotism).
For Helena, Iraqis or the socially conscious layers of their society have no desire to bring about civil society and inter-sectarian justice. History is simplisticially reduced down to grab for oil, cheap nationalism, anti-Americanism, and 3rd worldism.
The progress the Iraqis are making in bringing about civil society must be condemened by the Cole-Cobban axis, as it eats away right at their ideological upbringing and biases, and also livelihoods and Entitle VIs. If there are no blood conflicts in Iraq, then who needs these “scholars”?
For them, a thug carrying an AK-47 is a far more romantic and vivid expression of social justice, than all the liberties, elections, parliaments, constitutions, laws and institutions that an Iraqi civil society may ever achieve or require.
Unlike what the piece implies, inter-sectarian political rivalries, in a civil setting, is the only way for Iraqis to reckon with their identity. This sad piece reflects – as us middle easterners like to say – “the camel who dreams of cotton seeds”. A lot of wishful thinking about religious, fascist, and opportunistic thugs to come together and rule over the civil and conscious segments of Iraqi society.
Iraqis have made a conscious choice through their participation in the election that they prefer construction of a civil society over cheap cries of “gut independence”.
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