tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post340832300695947751..comments2024-03-29T09:58:31.251+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Bad RecognitionDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-52473595645744038622012-11-21T16:12:57.627+00:002012-11-21T16:12:57.627+00:00Parts of Russia, unless Stalin is to have the last...Parts of Russia, unless Stalin is to have the last word.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-525469387301496982012-11-21T00:24:11.888+00:002012-11-21T00:24:11.888+00:00Which other country is Georgia occupying exactly?
...Which other country is Georgia occupying exactly?<br /><br />Rogal Dornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-58754712349128925922012-11-21T00:17:01.005+00:002012-11-21T00:17:01.005+00:00It is not the Western outpost that its neocon part...It is not the Western outpost that its neocon partisans claim it to be, not even in their own terms, which are wrong anyway. The same is true of Israel. But they are both countries, even if they are both occupying parts of other countries. Taiwan just isn't a country. Like Kosovo.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-62373102573939844692012-11-21T00:08:44.891+00:002012-11-21T00:08:44.891+00:00Are you trying to claim Georgia shouldn't be a...Are you trying to claim Georgia shouldn't be a country now?Rogal Dornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-27623554454349155222012-11-20T23:50:03.372+00:002012-11-20T23:50:03.372+00:00That has absolutely nothing to do with it.
If a B...That has absolutely nothing to do with it.<br /><br />If a British Civil War ended with the losing side holed up on the Isle of Wight, then the Isle of Wight would not thus become a country.<br /><br />Furthermore, the ideological arguments advanced for Taiwan (or Georgia, or Israel) a some sort of "outpost of Western values" not only bear little resemblance, ever-less in the Israeli case and never very much in the other two, to what those societies and cultures are actually like.<br /><br />They also presuppose the "Western values" formulated by the post-War New York Jewish Left in general and by its Trotskyist wing in particular. Those are not the real ones, nor anything like them.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-58338053371058438702012-11-20T23:36:44.778+00:002012-11-20T23:36:44.778+00:00Why ever not?
You can actually criticise the gove...Why ever not?<br /><br />You can actually criticise the government in Taiwan without fear of being shot anymore. You can VOTE FOR THE GOVERNMENT AS WELL!<br /><br />What a novel concept. Maybe they'll get to doing that in Syria in, Oh I don't know, another few centuries?Rogal Dornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-83532943002143702402012-11-20T23:04:58.959+00:002012-11-20T23:04:58.959+00:00Well, at least now Assad can phone the Taiwanese t...Well, at least now Assad can phone the Taiwanese to ask for advice when countries stop recognising you.<br /><br />Then again, Taiwan is more deserving of statehood than Syria ever will be isn't it David?Rogal Dornnoreply@blogger.com