Comments on: Max Boot Compares Walled Baghdad Neighborhoods To American Gated Communties

By: nellieh

nellieh — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:40:50 +0000

Jesus Christ! These gratuitous, gaggy, F’n comments should be printed ans stuffed down this assh*les throat. Where do people like him come from? The Ivy League? What kind of privileged life did he lead? If not, he is kissing enough ass to live one. He sure is in a different reality that those dodging RPGs in those “gated communities.” What a complete jagoff.
P.S For Boot’s education; RPGs Rocket propelled Grenades. They kill and maim.

By: helenahandbasket

helenahandbasket — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:27:27 +0000

Boot’s brain is its own “gated community”, with walls built of mush.

By: DieNowForPeace

DieNowForPeace — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:26:34 +0000

Eh, stupid fcuk, American cowards CHOOSE to live behind segregating walls of fear (so called “Gated Communities”).

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:19:28 +0000

So Palestine is also a “Gated Community”? And the Warsaw ghetto was one too?

By: Art

Art — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:14:27 +0000

Back in the cold war era…
East Berlin was a gated community.

By: Bluestocking

Bluestocking — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:46:44 +0000

It is, in essence, an update of the old plan known as “concentration” zones or camps. The latter name causes understandable confusion, since we’re not talking about extermination camps of the kind that Hitler built, but rather of settlements where locals can be moved to live under guard, thereby preventing insurgent infiltration. The British used this strategy in the Boer war, the Americans during the Philippine war, and many other powers took similar steps in many other conflicts. In Vietnam they were known as “strategic hamlets.”

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Boot apparently either forgot or never learned that the earliest of the Nazi concentration camps — Dachau being one example — weren’t used as death camps in the beginning but were exactly the kind of camps that he describes. Boot also either forgot or never learned about the Jewish ghettos in Poland which the Nazis built and into which they forcibly relocated Polish Jews in order to facilitate their future transport to the death camps — the ghettos were deliberately constructed near railway lines, ostensibly in order to make it easier to transport the products which the ghetto residents were forced to manufacture for the Germans, but also in order to make it easier for the people to be taken to the camps later on. That’s what makes these sort of forced relocation zones so problematic — the step between creating these kinds of places and an all-out genocidal campaign is a very small one indeed.

By: DRxJ

DRxJ — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:42:22 +0000

Yes.
So true.
Here in Southwest Michigan, if our houses in the gated community are not foreclosed, and if we are lucky enough to have a job, once we are able to leave after our 5 hours of electricity, we risk life and limb every single day just so we can provide our families with necessities, such as food and water!
Dum Bass!

By: christopher wiwi

christopher wiwi — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:04:54 +0000

Max looks old enough to go over and fight and then he can really tell us what walled nieghborhood is so much like the gated community`s here where we have missles flying through the air,machine gun fire and suicide bombings. What a moron, he is another boot licking neocon cheerleader for this illegal WAR.Yea a real close comparison between here and a
Baghdad neighborhood.

By: Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:54:15 +0000

I am just now watching last night’s Countdown. Keith Olbermann just called Das Boot a dumbass :)

By: misshusseinmolly

misshusseinmolly — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:52:06 +0000

This guy is as clueless as the guy who compared waterboarding to swimming. He either genuinely thinks of a walled area in Baghdad as a country club, or he really thinks we are stupid enough to buy his spin. Either way, he’s totally removed from reality.

By: Mugsy

Mugsy — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:52:05 +0000

The walls around Dora and Sadr City are similar to “gated communities” the same way lightbulbs don’t emit light but “suck dark”.

By: Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:13:17 +0000

This baby-faced prick is way too young to be called a senior anything. What a joke to trot out these little boys who pretend to be experts at anything. Their expertise is limited to fu(kups.

By: Klem Kiddilehopper

Klem Kiddilehopper — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:29:43 +0000

Max Boot, another in a long line of young Chicken-Hawks,following in the footsteps of Bush, Cheney,Rush,Hannity,Boortz,Bolton and on and on! What a throughly repulsive excuse for a human!

“War hath no fury like a non-combatant!”
C E Montague,1867-1928 – British Writer

By: kassandrasduplex

kassandrasduplex — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:30:31 +0000

The Zionists’ future wet dream: wall into apartheid prisons everybody you don’t like. See what we can do in Gaza can be replicated anyplace…
Not too far down the road the United States will be partitioned off the same way.
Isn’t Gaza now the largest prison colony on earth?

By: bernardaB

bernardaB — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:56:53 +0000

As kimmy above mentioned, maybe Max JackBoot could discuss Israel’s Warsaw Ghetto-style walled community – The West Bank. The second one to go along with the Gaza walled community. “Wall of Shame”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1NZGI02WkI&mode=related&search=

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:18:17 +0000

Is there a link to the original column in German?

Where do they get these people?

By: Chocolate Jesus

Chocolate Jesus — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:55 +0000

what a loser this guy is. I’d love to hear him explain exactly which iraqi political party it is thats going to steer the iraqi people away a hamas like government. amazing how these idi#ts who seem so concerned about “izlameofascizm”
have no problem sending american troops to die for a government who throws VIP parades for Iranian heads of state and whose constitution includes “no law shall contradict islam” as one of its opening lines..

By: jonny

jonny — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:47:26 +0000

Jeezis Herbert Wept.

Spelunking fresh depths of right-wing stupidity — just when you thought you’d seen the last of crawly blind white things …

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:13:52 +0000

There are other realities emerging from the debacle called Iraq too. It is the policy of military expansion that threatens to start a new cold war, according to the usually moderate Gorbachev. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23661731-2703,00.html

Hillary Clinton’s hot talk about annihilating Iran sure doesn’t help either. Our foreign policy is currently out of control and we need some adults to put things back together before it is too late, as this warning from Gorbachev illustrates.

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:31:00 +0000

Then Max Boot should stroll the beautifully gated communities of the Gaza Strip then… NO?