[MD] Intellect battles the [immigrant] barbarians

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt had said]
"To prevent Iran from occupying Iraq and a large part of the Middle East, 
and vice versa, I consider what we did moral on the MOQ grounds of society 
having the right and obligation to keep barbaric biological forces in check."

[Ron]
'nuff said, o.k whos going to be the one identifying "barbaric biological 
forces" If that's the MOQ grounds I'm outta here. And if it's platt, I'm 
moving to canada.

[Arlo]
Stick around Ron, and feel free to stay in the States for now. Platt 
justifies pretty much everything by claiming it to "society over barbaric 
forces". It is simply an apologist strategy for justifying everything and 
anything the USofA has done or may do.

A while back I posted a rubric to understanding everything Platt says.

Start with these simple paired axioms.

1a. The republicans are right about everything.
1b. The democrats are wrong about everything.

2a. Conservatives are wholly moral, virtuous, principled people.
2b. Liberals are immoral, deceptive, conniving evil commies.

3a. Everything right-wing radio reports is unquestionable truth.
3b. Everything the "liberal media" reports is a lie.

Using this, for example, its easy to see why helping a dictator to use 
chemical weapons was "moral". Reagan was a conservative. And why our 
actions in the war are justified. Bush is a conservative.

Now, of course, Platt also tries to make anyone who disagrees with him 
conversely axiomatic. I'm sure you'll see, if you haven't already, how 
that's just hot air. I'm confident, if you and I talk and debate, that we 
will disagree and agree, but that (like with Craig, who I believe also 
considers himself a conservative) Platt is really the only one here trapped 
inside such outrageous Party Ideology.

I'll also remind you of the two Neocon myths, one in the Morally Superior 
Wholly Noble American Nation, and the other is in Christianity The Moral 
Religion (for a later time). According to Neocon thinking, America is a 
faultless, always moral, always Holy, always pure force in the world, whose 
role is to bring its Divine Morality to the pure, wretched, immoral nations 
of the world. Anything done in American interests, then, is Always Good. No 
matter the cost. No matter the act. The simply rubric becomes "Does it 
serve America's interest?" If it does, then it is moral.

Again I'll caution you that there will be an attempt to use converse 
positioning, namely that if you are critical of the US at all, you must 
believe the US to be wholly immoral, evil and wrong in all cases. And again 
I am sure you will come to see that (despite Platt's predicted claim that 
this is my position) no one other than Platt accepts such an absurd 
dichotomy here.

At any rate, I hope this helps. Like Ian and Khaled I keep telling myself 
to just ignore Platt's outrageous comments, but like a loose tooth I find 
it unbearable not to push at it. Maybe someday I'll learn.

(As I said, get ready for this post in mirror image condemning me for all 
these things. Like I said, I am confident in time you will see that for the 
rhetorical nonsense it is).