War and Democracy in Ancient and Contemporary Middle East

[ChaneyBrinkmanBurlin]

He's a professor of linguistics and philosophy, and he's infinitely more intelligent than Hanson.

[pretorious700]

@ChaneyBrinkmanBurlin Being "intelligent" means nothing if your conclusions are wrong.

[2Banarne2]

"i just wana kill people normaly" that was kinda funny :D

[noobler9]

fairly sensible but misses the fact that these conflicts are based on ideologies that are mostly in conflict outside of direct warfare thus the way to win is through DEMONSTRATIVE missionary works of peace, prosperity

[noobler9]

@noobler9 this isn't to say we can't publicly shame theocrats for their incompetency or even go to war but that we should be honest and embrace the fact that communication will win this conflict not bombs, which will only give respite, progress is not inevitable so we must help democrats in discourse at least as much or more than by dealing death, ideas trump initial armaments as long as absolute deterrence exists with believable sympathy exists

[noobler9]

@noobler9 I did like how he dodged that last question though by inserting his own interpretation to the girl's unanswered question, instead of being bluntly honest about invasive retaliatory assassination

[ufster81]

@thaglund1

on second thought, even a stupid redneck like you deserves a clear cut example of americentricism right out of this video to help your tiny brain process it easily. when the idiot professor speaks of the palestinians in kuwait, he is blatantly lying about the fact that they were removed with the free will of the kuwaiti regime that he confesses the ameritard gov't has so-called re-instituted and uses this as an example of perceived grievances changing rapidly. suck on that, tommy.

[gerardk51]

Victor Hanson rocks!

[hicaleb]

@ufster81  really?

[ufster81]

@hicaleb

yes, really. are all of you americans this dumb ?

[Nasiruddin84]

I don't agree with all he says, but he gives a very rational analysis of things, which is hard to find nowadays.

[corso338]

This video is not very good....Totally based on post cold war strategic thinking. He is biassed he has no idea of history and very one sided story. Very bad. You know what? I think this is a case of fried air...talking because you ahve a mouth.

[thepofmeister]

ISis RA ELohim = ISRAEL. . . ZEITGEIST THE MOVIE on you tube. to ƒuck with religiofascist slime. here's for an unconditionally loving humanitarian world equal for all.

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister how original an atheist anti american UK faggot ,go bow to your new muslim rulers you submissive self hating gordon brown scumbag.

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt i'm not anti american. i'm anti you. please end up in a fema camp. maybe there is somethin in eugenics after all, if it wipes fecal matter like you off a what should be civilized country. our prime minister is a pussy-boy to the same fourth reich your muppet in the white house is... are you israeli? actually... can't tell, you're no advert for your country anyway, you jealous little drama queen. i'm as fat, as you are ugly, ass hole. um, actually, i'm not that fat! tick turd.

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister i went looking for u yesterday ,needless to say u werent at the olive garden.

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt what the... how the hell am i supposed to know where or what the olive garden is? ! ? ! ? let me know so i can enjoy the deft and adroit insult! is this a jesus ref, or is it a homo club or...? ?

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt -you know what,this if really ridiculous.you're insulting me,i'm insulting youwe don't know each other and maybe luckily,we never will.you have the last insult,if it makes you feel better.if it's victory,maybe you need it a little more than i do.i've got my wife,three kids,i care about all our future, even yours.whoever you are,wherever you are.i don't want me or you to be living under a fascist fourth reich.live well,in peace,be happy and lucky.i don't hate you.i wish you well.

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister i didnt mean to destroy your family,they always said i was a home -wrecker.

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt you didn't distroy anything, other than your self respect, dignity and reputation - but, i meant it, we wish you a happy life... why can't you be big, and wish it back? if aliens where attacking this world, and they never will, but if they did, wouldn't we fight side by side? wouldn't our differences seem... ridiculous?

[thepofmeister]

everyone, i really must apologize for this ƒucking pecker-breath who's latched on to give abuse. i've filled up enough space on here bitch slapping this piles down. this little shade thinks it'll have the last word! and i could slap the ƒucker down every time, me and my wife think it's hilarious, but is this blog for abuse? who thinks it should end now?

[wdsftygt]

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[thepofmeister]

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[thepofmeister]

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[thepofmeister]

bye bye, fuc*wit. 9/11 was an inside job. if you don't know that - you know fuc* all.

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister there are padded rooms for things like you

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt and there's a toilet bowl down which the likes of you, should be flushed

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister shut up u ugly pale bandanad rectum eater

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt - hey lady boy, don't be jealous of your superiors. thanks for the flirt, but slime like you'll never grow a back bone. pity you know how to type!

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister youre giving the camera a sweet look you ugly sensitive troubled young fat gay man

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt hehehe! you retarded freak! ew... that a little malcontent inane, banal no-mark like you checks out people's pictures, is just... wrong, fa*.i shouldn't encourage you, but, go *uck yourself - you've plenty of practice dip shit! and please, stop flirting!

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister whats with harmless porcelain white fag men like you using the word mark all the time,i dont really have to check out your photo ,your leering cum hungry ass is staring at me every time u send me a message.

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt -you're still flirting freak - shut the ƒuck up - and ƒuck off, and you won't have to be humbled by my beauty, sack breath! next:

[wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister you rotting troubled faggot stop sending me messages,you may actually be a fat dike .I just dont know.

[thepofmeister]

@wdsftygt you ever considered suicide scum bag? your best option.

[Linguiphile]

Kigamit, I am a long-time student of the history, cultures and languages of Native N. America. I am also of mixed Irish and Cherokee ancestry. Your comments are politically correct, not factually so.

As much as I admire American aboriginals, honesty forces me to admit that, as tends to be the case in all primitive societies, such social ills as war, rape, thievery, vengeance killing and slavery were no less common among my American forefathers than among my pre-civilization European ones.

[tristaotezoira]

Ok, the world is full of ak47's. Meanwhile, ideas as "good", "bad", "barbarian" and "civilized" cannot embrace the crux of the question, nor event the world we live since WWII: the "victoryous" allies have failed to prevent communist Russia from taking Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, etc.

It's not necessary to go as far as the "Ancient World" to understand the problem: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq are western attempts of restablishing economic and politic supremacy over the mediterranean !!

[Re5Publica]

@tristaotezoira Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan are nowhere near the Mediterranean....

[tristaotezoira]

@Re5Publica I know man.... but they are strategically important...

Now that US commands Kwait, they have a secure base there... I think that Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan were a diversion....

[Re5Publica]

@tristaotezoira The U.S. doesn't "command" Kuwait. And no, those were all wars fought to contain communism, a totalitarian and expansionist ideology which the world would undoubtedly be better without.

[Jujuman2003]

Victor Hanson is a rightwing hack with the intellectual honesty of Joseph Goebbels but without Goebbels's intelligence. Why should anyone trust a guy who once said Obama would lose to McCain 18 to 520 electoral votes?!

[klgamit]

Regarding the Arab world, he only sees on side of the coin. Assuming that the west is superior in having democracies and a more liberal type of life. The Indians didn't live in this type of world but they were much more humane than the Europeans that drove their of their lands and killed them by the hundreds of thousands.

[Bobbel888]

Agree, he could go as coin designer.

[rollotwomassey]

The Indians weren't any more or less humane than the Europeans. The Europeans just had more technology and, with Indian resistance fragmented and scattered, they could not drive off an endless flow of European and [eventually] American settlers. The Indians had wars too and were subject to the same human failings that we're all subject to. It's just that there is little to no historical record of their depredations and, moreover, no political will in academia to examine them closer.

[klgamit]

For this guy, the fact that the history is filled with wars makes them inevitable and the only possible way to have some kind of stability is to have more "deterrence" than someone who is conflict with you. What I see is no belief in the good nature of mankind and in the possibility of peace. We need more people to talk about compassion, friendship and all the other good things that humans are capable of in order to live in a better world with more peace and less wars.

[klgamit]

I am almost certain that this man is a spokesman for a certain political party ...

He makes loose points and doesn't go into the depth of the events he allegedly describes... Half truth is worse than outright lies. This man is biased and tells half truths all over the place

[danbagheri]

I never said anyone is a barbarian, you just assumed that i would suggest this. The barbarian are those who try to force their view of the world onto othet people.

[MrCropper]

"The barbarian are those who try to force their view of the world onto other people."

Like the Muslims? I agree, the Muslims are barbarians. But the Christians are just as bad.

[danbagheri]

Your telling me Israel is not trying to impose their views and way of living on the native inhabitants of Palestine? My dear friend every major super power in history by rule has tried to enforce their ways onto others by the means of force.

My problem is not with Israel, it is with the doctrine of Israel.

[B21983]

Second, of course Israel is not imposing their views or way of life on Palestinian Arabs. If they were, Palestinian Arabs would be accepting of homosexuality. Sadly, they remain a highly conservative and religious society. Its too bad Israel hasnt imposed their way of life - gay rights, women's rights, free speech, freedom of religion, and general elections would do the Palestinians well. I hope they get those liberties one day.

[wdsftygt]

@B21983 Israel does not "accept " homosexuality ,they just try not to kill them for it.

[B21983]

To apply "native inhabitants" to the Arabs only is very racially insensitive. I accept and honor the Arab presence on the land and their rights to it. Jews too are indiginous to the land. Neither Jews nor Palestinian Arabs are "genetically pure" or can trace every chromosome to an inhabitant living there in antiquity. First step to peace and mutual reconciliation is recognizing that the conflict is between two middle eastern peoples.

[wdsftygt]

@B21983 the arabs have enough land in the middle east ,they want israel because they are jealous

[Halo4Lyf]

@danbagheri Saying the "Palestinians" are the native inhabitants of the Levant is like saying that the Dutch were the natives of Pennsylvania.

[danbagheri]

There is no point, peoples opinion here seems to have already been made before I even begin to reason.

[ABAisSCIENCE]

God bless this man for his strong comments to the woman at the end of the video.

Shall we judge Israel for responding to over 100 hundred rockets sent against Israel on Christmas & Christmas Eve by attacking Gaza?

Well, yes we do, but that doesn't make it right.

Arabs by cartoons & parent's words are teaching children by conditioning to hate & desire death of Jews to the point of "no flesh" (suicide bomber) behavior if necessary.

Israel builds armoured school buses for their children.

[ABAisSCIENCE]

Meanwhile, the Arab brings out children to violence to get dead bodies to praise over their "dead flesh" on T.V. are around the siblings for the goal of raising the demand of more "dead flesh" because their children are a tool for winning the war as opposed to their pride & joy.

Arab does not see there child as a blessing, unless it is for the use of winning the war by conditioning (treating) them like dogs.

Because of this the Arab though will win for we do not see that ABAisSCIENCE.

[fkhosmoo]

1) All western (christian) countries (democracy or not) have always hated Jewish people. Far worse than moslem countries. That has never changed. The let the Jews leave europe because nobody wanted them in their country.

[rollotwomassey]

That was more the case in the Middle Ages [especially during the Inquisition] but not so much now...

[rollotwomassey]

This man's views should be the default position of the American academic, intellectual and media class.

[danbagheri]

the west has not really been inpower since late 17th century.

[bebeinpa]

What then, explains all the complaints against the West?

[danbagheri]

first off he never really answered the girls question, he only shiefted the burden of proof. Also his historical views are very dillusional.

[danbagheri]

very diluted view of history, and a very bias prespective. i cant belive he is so highly respected,

[bebeinpa]

I can't believe that Noam Chomsky, a professor of Linguistics is considered an expert on world affairs.

[Halo4Lyf]

@danbagheri Do you speak Ancient Greek and Latin? No? Yeah, that's what I thought.

[generalzeedot]

is this man really trying to imply that there's a pro-arab sentiment in the west???? what a complete wanker

[Aaron518]

Here in America there is,and it's a pretty big one too. The far liberal left,for the most part,thinks that the US and Britain are imperialist bullies and that everything would be ok in the Middle East if we just talked everything out.And I know because I used to be one of them and I still get the emails from all the groups that millions are a part of. That young girl asking the very last question about check points is a good example of that mind set.

[bebeinpa]

I, Too, was once a leftist and believed all this. Leftists believe that the Middle East is violent and backward because of the West, as if these countries are mere puppets and can't make decisions on their own.

[Aaron518]

Victor totally owned that girl at the end. OUCH!