Thanks to @scoble for winning the award for FF
- Admiral70
There was a Scoble Puppet on the Live Ustream of Crunchies. It said it was him, said funny stuff about the nominees not being based on primary colors in their logo, tweets by employees, it was cute.
- mandyvan
Yeah. Ahmadinejad seems quite amenable to bargaining with the Great Satan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wait - isn't Israel the Great Satan? Or are there two now?
- Internet's Tad
Victor, that's a quote from Sun Tzu's book, Art of War
- imabonehead
I mean, we met with Kim Jong Il, and no one got hit with nuclear weapons. That's got to be a point in diplomacy's favor. The one thing that W actually *didn't* fail at.
- Victor Ganata
Although, I gotta admit, it's pretty sad when your definition for not failing is not getting hit by nuclear weapons.
- Victor Ganata
Tad, no. Israel is a 'rotting corpse'. America is the Great Satan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
after using friendfeed and twitter for a while now... I'm pretty sure I know who people in this thread are... and it is amazing that the people for diplomacy also think America should get a beat down. Nothing could be more telling then that truth.
- Noah David Simon
Beat down? None of these countries could possibly threaten us in a meaningful way. The big guns are Russia and China, and they're ostensibly our allies. For now.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor - "keep your friends close..." is from Sun Tzu
- anna sauce
so McCain criticizing the DoD was odd, and yet another one of his weird moves to punch holes in the republican platform- which he kept on doing. I'm a liberal/democrat, but he definitely has an odd campaign style. Soundbytes "miss congeniality" then potshots at Reaganisms
- anna sauce
Victor in the age of terrorism, U should know better then 2talk about threat in terms of penis size. u aren't thinking.
- Noah David Simon
Noah: that's just fearmongering now. Non-state actors are a different story. I still believe 9/11 should've been prosecuted as a criminal act rather than as an act of war, but that's history now
- Victor Ganata
It's so much easier than said than done, I believe it's a noble idea; but abviously you do not know how polotics operate. Words can only go but so far my friend. Please don't get me wrong, I would love to have world peace, but unfortunately we live in a cynical world that is filled with chaos and a ever-changing enviroment that begins with polotics.
- Rodney
I'd be grateful if the people who think that the "keep your friends close..." quote is from Sun Tzu could tell me where in the Art of War it is. It sounds more like something from Machiavelli but I can't find it in any of his works and it definitely isn't in my translation of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Googling shows the only definite source is one of the Godfather movies
- Adewale Oshineye
Idiotic point, Jason. International diplomacy is a dance with lots of rules. There are various levels of talks and certain hoops to go through.
- Rob Sterling
all I can say is that diplomacy seems to be working in n Korea. To attack someone before you engage them is dishonorable. After all I don't see anyone giving props to Tojo.
- Victor Ganata