Comments on: To Engage or Not To Engage https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:25:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: catgirl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534619 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:25:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534619 I agree. Symbolic gestures and nice and, well, symbolic, but they’re just not terribly effective. We should send a very low-level official with the same conditions that Britain is doing.

]]> By: robert estrada https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534618 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:56:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534618 When are the neocon / bitters / racists going to realize that the politics of testosterone has failed yet again? The only way out of their mess of the last 8 years (and I am not limiting it solely to that time period) is to have whatever feelings we have but use that funny lump of tissue between our ears not the plastic â??nads on the bumpers of their trucks.
Robert Estrada

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534617 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:39:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534617 the Bush Depression

Cripes, but you are an ignorant twat sometimes.

Sorry, you are right.

Change to: The Bush Recession.

]]> By: Ang https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534616 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:24:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534616 the Bush Depression

Cripes, but you are an ignorant twat sometimes.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534615 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:00:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534615 We could resurrect Condoleezza Rice and send her. She managed to bollix up everything she was involved in and would cause this conference to not know which way is up.

]]> By: David Lee https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534614 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:58:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534614 Let’s send Bush and Cheney. We could all get lucky.

]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534613 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:13:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534613 I’d say we should at least send someone to the talks, if only to let them know what bigots they are.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534612 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:23:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/19/to-engage-or-not-to-engage/#comment-534612 I disagree with your stance. First of all, the fact that some countries are not attending is NOT disengagement. Some countries were engaged enough to cause the change in conference no longer coming out against freedom to discuss religion (the blasphemy stuff).

Those who have run the so-called human rights UN commission are the worst offenders of human rights and their actions have been offensive in the past and will be offensive at this conference. Why should the US and other countries want to be tainted by this behavior?

There has to be some sane possibility of more progress and this commission has to become real.

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