Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, October 5, 2009

Republicans - US should Attack Iran to save Israel from itself

Commentary By Ron Beasley



GOP senators: US, not Israel, should attack Iran �if necessary�

Two senior Republican senators say the United States, and not Israel, should attack Iran if military action becomes "necessary."

They also say a simple strike at the country's nuclear capability
wouldn't be enough -- the US would have to launch an "all-or-nothing"
war against Iran with the aim of crippling the country's military
capabilities.

"I think an Israeli attack on Iran is a nightmare for the world,
because it will rally the Arab world around Iran and they're not
aligned now. It's too much pressure to put on Israel," Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) told Fox News' Chris Wallace.

The best reaction comes from the Libertarian LewRockwell.com.

The U.S. should launch a �full-out military strike� on Iran so Israel doesn�t have to, says
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). Why not let Israel defend itself? �It�s
too much pressure to put on Israel,� says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
��I think an Israeli attack on Iran is a nightmare for the world,
because it will rally the Arab world around Iran and they�re not
aligned now.�

Mr. Graham�s silent syllogism renders this conclusion: The U.S. should attack Israel so the Arab world will rally against us. Then we can blame it on Obama.

Remember how Bush couldn�t figure out �why they hate us�? This
dynamite duo from the GOP lays that question to rest (and proves that
Ron Paul was right, naturally).

Footnote to Sen. Graham: The Iranians are Persians, not Arabs.  Can you comment intelligently on that fact for thirty coherent seconds, please?

Why is it that no body ever talks about Israel's illegal nukes?  Why are the Libertarians so anti-Semitic?



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2 comments:

  1. rustedOctober 5, 2009 at 6:12 AM

    Always remember made up facts to the GOP are always better then the "real facts"

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  2. KevinOctober 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM

    geez there is a large amount of stupid in that great big head of his...
    The threat from Iran is way overhyped. If they were set on war with the west there are many things they would be doing already.
    If I were them you bet I would have secret underground nuke labs...

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