“They came back and lived fulfilling lives” – oh no they didn’t. 9.7 million died and that’s just military personnel.

“The rest of us want war” – have you joined the rebels yet or you prefer to stay in your comfy armchair and BHS slippers?

This is not a Soviet dissident, Daphne, but an American dissident. Most other American dissidents are saying the same thing because the evidence is the same. The message, Daphne, not the messenger. Your prejudices have kept you ignorant of most messages.

[Daphne – You take a big risk, Kevin, when you hector me about messages, medium and context. This is my field, remember? No, you cannot divorce a message from its context or its source. The context and the source are an integral part of the message. You have an example of that in the current Libyan crisis: Germany’s noncommittal stance has met with disapproval, but Malta’s noncommittal stance has met with suspicion. The declared message is more or less the same, but the speaker and the context are different. Germany does not have Malta’s history of closeness to Gaddafi. Similarly, with your man in the YouTube video, redneck = redneck reasoning. He will be taken seriously only by other rednecks – and the US is full of them, which means that he is more or less the norm and not a dissident – or by conspiracy theorists like you who press the pause button on logical thought when it suits them.]

Read that earlier and I dare anyone to fault his logic!

Thanks Daphne, somebody had to say it. Geez!!

Ten years’ worth, Ciccio. That’s two decades for you.

They look like they need an emergency aid shipment of hair colour.

They look middle aged and therefore quite odd for them to keep getting it wrong, time and time again. I’m still 23 and I’ve never fallen for idealism or ideology. I also learn from my mistakes too.

He’s just a talk-show host on a Sunday afternoon programme on ITALIAN TELEVISION, for crying out loud. Why has everyone taken him so seriously?

Read this, David:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/opinion/03kristof.html?_r=4

A good argument:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/opinion/03kristof.html?_r=4