[Peace-discuss] Democrats cave completely

[John W.]

At 01:11 PM 12/12/2007, you wrote:

>I don't think the term Mephistophelian bargain makes the right point. As I 
>understand it that bargain gives up something of oneself (your soul, so to 
>speak) for some gain. In this case the DEMS may selling their souls to 
>gain some domestic benefits, but it says nothing about the effect on the 
>Iraqis and Afghans, as if they did not matter. My point is that the 
>bargain is trading Iraqi lives for domestic gains. The DEMs may be selling 
>their souls, but more than that is that they are willing to keep killing 
>Iraqis for some those gains. To see it as a Mephistophelian bargain is to 
>ignore the effect on the Iraqis -- a kind of ethnocentricity (like racism 
>but where the offense isn't to a race but to a people).


Depends on who you perceive as being the Mephistopheles character(s) in my 
little literary metaphor.  The devil and his minions deal in souls of all 
kinds.  They don't care whose soul is being sacrificed.  The more the better.

Regardless of your literary interpretation, please be assured that no one 
in THIS thread on THIS list has ignored the impact on the Iraqis.

Lucifer




>On Dec 12, 2007 1:21 AM, John W. 
><<mailto:jbw292002 at gmail.com>jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>At 11:56 PM 12/11/2007, Michael Shapiro wrote:
>
>>I think this shows some Democrat's true colors -- they are willing to 
>>spill the blood of Iraqis and Afgans to get some concessions for domestic 
>>issues.
>>
>>"A Democratic deal to give President Bush some war funding in exchange 
>>for additional domestic spending"
>>
>>This bargain is pretty insidious, deviant.
>
>
>It's a Mephistophelian bargain.  And it's Politics As Usual.  Ask Dick 
>Durbin next time you talk to him whether he finds anything unusual or 
>objectionable about it.
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