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 26, 2009

When they get tired of death

Commentary By Ron Beasley

I watched the movie The Devil's Own this weekend which gives us an insight to the horrific violence in Northern Ireland from the late 60's to 2000.  This violence centered around a conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants of Northern Ireland and the desire of the Catholics to join with Ireland.  The British sent in the Army which only made matters worse.  When the violence died down it was because both parties were tired of the killing not because of military intervention by outsiders. 

With the deadly blast in Iraq this weekend there are some lessons to be learned from the Northern Ireland experience although the militarists among us will not learn them and see this as an excuse for the US to remain in Iraq.  Foreign military intervention by the US will only weaken both the US and Iraq.  The Iraqis will quit fighting each other when a majority get tired of the death and destruction and a US presence will make that day come later not sooner.  The US broke Iraq but can't fix it.



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3 comments:

  1. HootsbuddyOctober 26, 2009 at 8:06 AM

    Someone said the IRA gave up violence after 9/11 because the WTC attack gave terrorism a bad name.

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  2. Steve HyndOctober 26, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    I wouldn't say that was true, John. The peace process in N.I. was already well advanced by the time of 9/11.
    Regards, Steve

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  3. EarlOctober 26, 2009 at 5:26 PM

    "When they get tired of death..."
    I've been saying that for a long time, I think...

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