Comments on: “Redo”

By: Ginny

Ginny — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:40:57 +0000

Ed, As usual, I should have not trusted my vague memory and weak sense of history and checked. The BBC sections on Religion and Ethics were some of the early googles for both Ottoman and Muslims/Spain. A Pajamas column deals with a more contemporary history. (For anyone else that needs what I clearly needed.)

By: ed

ed — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:10:33 +0000

To the best of my knowledge, the Ottoman Empire never included any territories in Spain. They didn’t capture Byzantium, Constantinople until 1453 and the last Moorish territory, Granada, was taken by the Christians in 1492.

By: Vince P

Vince P — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:54:15 +0000

[I had a response typed out, but asked myself "Why are you responding?"]

By: fred lapides

fred lapides — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:46:09 +0000

Of course an anti-Obama piece. Of course: he did not go enough times to Iraq so he doesn’t know.McCain when. Heavily guarded by large number of troops in a safe zone, he declared all was normal! You don’t have to be in a place to know what is going on overall–[that is why there is intel and briefings etc etc.How many times has bush been in Iraq?But that said, how many people have we lost since this past month, now that the surge is a huge success? Why is the Iraq govt down on the US proposals for a settlement that keeps us in their country?When will the 2 million Iraqis who fled return to their country? Why is the infra-structure worse now, 5 years after the war began, than it was under evil Saddam? In sum: huge success so why not bring all back home?