Comments on: A provocative point http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/13/a-provocative-point/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: gs http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/13/a-provocative-point/#comment-310301 gs Tue, 13 May 2008 03:17:50 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6413#comment-310301 Luttwak's next-to-last sentence:<blockquote>That an Obama presidency would cause such complications in our dealings with the Islamic world is not likely to be a major factor with American voters, and the implication is not that it should be.</blockquote>Is he being artful here? He could have ended the sentence with "...American voters, and it should not be." He also neglects to mention Hamas's apparent <a href="http://cameron.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/04/16/a-hamas-problem-for-obama/" rel="nofollow">endorsement</a> of Obama. But Luttwak has a legitimate point: consider the assassinations of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat" rel="nofollow">Sadat</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" rel="nofollow">Rabin</a>. Luttwak’s next-to-last sentence:
That an Obama presidency would cause such complications in our dealings with the Islamic world is not likely to be a major factor with American voters, and the implication is not that it should be.

Is he being artful here? He could have ended the sentence with “…American voters, and it should not be.” He also neglects to mention Hamas’s apparent endorsement of Obama.

But Luttwak has a legitimate point: consider the assassinations of Sadat and Rabin.

]]> By: Brent Logan http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2008/05/13/a-provocative-point/#comment-310283 Brent Logan Tue, 13 May 2008 02:03:32 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=6413#comment-310283 Now you've done it -- you've given me a reason to vote for Obama! Dammit! Now you’ve done it — you’ve given me a reason to vote for Obama! Dammit!

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