...and I knew Lloyd had gotten old but HOLY CRAP HAWK IS ANCIENT.

Man, I dunno. Hudson Hawk isn't that much better than this desk.

it's hard to believe this desk and the film Hudson Hawk were made by the same species.

The "stupid fucking Seahawks aren't that fucking good"? Oh how I beg to differ Miss Thing ... GO HAWKS. This was absolutely delightful

*nsfw *fail = when winning isn't an option MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Go Hawks!

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I don't think anyone is calling them unstoppable. There is just, as you point out, an unwillingness to do so. Internally to each warlord's zone, there is the inability to do so. Across the African Union, well, the majority dislike the precedent of unseating dictators for war crimes, so they are unwilling to help. The rest of the world is sitting far away, and comfortable. Our war hawks out here refuse to go in because there is nothing in it for them. Our peacniks refuse to go in because war is bad, end of conversation.

The sad truth is there are very few people in the world who both care about the plight of such people AND are willing to endorse intervention.

Look no further than Somalia. The world powers decide to use military escorts to distribute aid to the country fairly. A few US marines get killed, and immediately EVERY world power pulls out and leaves things alone. To this day standard warlord manuals clearly state that in the case of UN peacekeepers or foreign intervention, shoot 2-3 of them and wait a week for them all to go home.

Go Hawks.

Go Coleman. May he do his part in pushing past the Whiners.

This is better than releasing the rabbit to the clutches of hawks because it's the dog you loved eating the frog you're learning to love. And thus the ultimate in life lessons: Learning to tolerate people that you love which cause you pain.

When he has a child that destroys his beloved card/toy collection, he'll remember his dog eating the frog and finally be able to forgive good ol Jimmy.

OR --

He'll murder his child in that moment, because of the stored up hatred over all those years. And people will say "He was such a nice man, we would have never known..."

But Jimmy knows. Jimmy laughs from the grave!

Damn you Jimmy!

YOU MADE ME KILL MY SON.

He is making reference to Orwell's "Slavery is Freedom." The hawks do wage endless war to end war and taxation is theft, as Chodorov and others have demonstrated, and social democrats do advocate massive taxation. Your gripe is a bit like complaining of ad hominem when saying Communists and Nazis engage in theft and murder. Sometimes people do bad things and that needs to be pointed out. There are however plenty of non-ad hominem argument provided by Murphy, which I encourage you to read.
Furthermore, "argumentum ad hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument."

These you cited above are not "fallacies" and hardly irrelevant, as they provide reasons why the current system is not desirable. In any case, I can put you in touch with the author to see if he'd like to respond to your response to his essay.

Robert is used to this kind of BS and has worked out some really good replies. This is the man who, after all, is challenging Krugman to a debate it seems Krugman will continue to avoid.

In any case, whether the rest of it is "worth your time" or not, only you can decide on that.

"From each according to their abilities, to each according to their need."

Yeah, just started reading that.

Only a few pages in and he's already engaging in ad homs.
"left-wing egalitarians believe that slavery is Freedom.
The hawks wage endless war to end war, while the social democrats engage
in massive theft—or “taxation” as they call it—to eliminate crime"

Not sure that the rest of it is worth my time.

it b *dead fred

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I never understood this scene to be honest. If I was Ethan Hawke and someone told me I had to let the guy I've been hunting all this time, I'd just kill him. They're not putting one of their own away for killing an arms dealer. The point is Ethan played this role like he had a singular purpose, like he wasn't wise to the game when the guys in his position always are or they're marginalized way ahead of time.

So if you happen to have spent your life hunting someone who is just the personification of evil and your told to let them go. Just blow their brains out please, take the moral hit for the rest of us.