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Post-140: WashPost Commenters Angry About Syria

8/27/2013

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More bad news keeps coming from work. The dark clouds are gathering. The latest, they refuse to pay me for several dozen essays I did months ago. Pathetic.

Speaking of dark clouds, tonight I browsed the comments to a Washington Post article on the (seemingly) impending war against Syria. John Kerry 2013 sounds a lot like Donald Rumsfeld 2003: "There must be accountability for those who would use the world’s most heinous weapons against the world’s most vulnerable people. Nothing today is more serious [...] This international norm cannot be violated without consequences,” said Rumsfeld, err, Kerry.

This led to what somebody, or some algorithm, selected as the top reader comment:
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The reader comments were amazing. They were overwhelmingly against the war, a bit to my surprise. There were almost no non-ad-hominem-based pro-war comments (see the end of this post for the one I found). I will post some representative comments below:
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The above makes most sense to me, to be honest.
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Of all the dozens of substantive comments I saw, only one was pro-war, although others were (partisanly) "anti-anti-war", attacking "Tea Party" members and attacking Republicans, the relevance of which I cannot determine.

This is the single "pro-war comment" which was not based in ad-hominem:
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