A quagmire or not?

A bit in a hurry there Dave? I'll agree that acknowledgement of good posts/links should be done just to encourage more.

First, while normally anything controversial will get hit on in less than 30 minutes here, some posts take a while to digest to reply, and your no one has read was less than 16 hours.

Second, we don't all work 8 to 5, and/or have access at work. I got home at quarter till 11 last night, did a bit of catching up, but didn't reply to everything I read. And I do keep links to some posts that I'm already involved with and sometimes go to those first and miss others or don't get to them in that catchup session.

Third, too many posts on Iraq or the national elections immediately get slammed from one side or the other. I'll confess, I'm beginning to hesitate to get involved too fast unless very definate points to make or very strong objections.

The article is very worth reading. It's worth may be enough to preclude an instant reply, other than an acknowledgement (deserved in this case) that it had been read.

I'll confess I don't remember reading this last night, even while online a while. I should have seen it before work though. I may have and postpone reply for whatever reason and forgotten about it. I often read Speakeasy on the side while involved in live 'chats' or IM's online, particularly in the evening and late night, and only respond to a few a the time as my attention is divided

All that said, many good points in the article, and I suspect most of us have ignored one or the other of them in our debates here and elsewhere.

RogerNC

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Hi, Roger.

Maybe I was just frustrated, but lately most of the posts by the forum's "resident liberals" (not) "Socialists" have slowly scrolled down the board with one or two replies, general from the other few liberals. OTOH, the various Kerry-bashing reports from conservative sources (which mercifully have decreased in the last week or so) would give rise to much larger threads of agreement... To me, one of the valuess of a forum like this is reasoned discussion among people of divergent views, from which some minds may actually change, at least around the edges of positions. Lately, that's been all too infrequent, as the debate's gotten shriller and shriller.

-- Dave K.
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The opinions expressed above are my own,
and do not necessarily reflect those of CNET!

Although I've contributed my part to some of the controversial stuff too I guess.

And Del has posted a lot of links about how things in Iraq aren't necessarily as bad the evening news portrays, with very few replies.

I'll grant bashing, but it's not been all Kerry-bashing either.

Granted, the article was good and as unpolitical as anything is likely to ever be, but because there are no replies by early evening (hmm about 7 pm your time?) did seem to be jumping the gun a bit and complaining about someone, though I don't know who.

RogerNC

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Wasn't it Brownsville, Texas that Ronnie Raygun said the Sandanistas were going to overrun?

Dan

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