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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} American Taliban How War Sex Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right by Markos Moulitsas American Taliban: How War Sex Sin and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right by Markos Moulitsas. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 658c2dd19d01c3e8 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Answer This: Moulitsas. Over the past five years, perhaps no one has more prominently personified the left-wing blogosphere than Markos Moulitsas, who founded the liberal online community Daily Kos in 2002. Among its hundreds of thousands of registered users, the site can boast such notable posters as Sens. John Kerry and Harry Reid, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. The annual Netroots Nation convention, an offshoot of the site, has become a must-attend for liberals in just four years of existence. Moulitsas' new book, "American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right,” continues his penchant for blunt political talk, especially against the right. As the title suggests, Moulitsas divines links between the Republican Party and the Wahhabi Islamist political movement in Afghanistan. "America’s primary international enemy—Islamic radicalism—insists on government by theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, wants to eradicate homosexuals from society, and insists on the use of force over diplomacy. Remind you of a certain American political party?" reads the book's Amazon.com blurb. Somewhere, Bill O'Reilly's head is steaming (he's a frequent critic of Markos). Perhaps our latest "Answer This. " will reveal Moulitsas’s softer side. At the least, it includes the debut of our first Spanish-language haiku (Moulitsas's mother is Salvadoran). Tell us your favorite joke. I've got three: Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, and Ken Buck. It's hilarious that Democrats are competitive in these races that should've been easy Republican pickups. When's the last time you used profanity? Daily. Heck, minutely. I learned to curse like a motherf'r when I was in the Army, and I've never let up. How many hours of sleep do you get (on average)? Six hours before the kids make enough of a ruckus to wake me up, though I'll usually linger in a half-wake, half-asleep daze for another hour before getting up for good. Describe your level of ambition. I'm content with my lot in life. I've got a great family, my hobby is my job, I get to hang out with the Daily Kos community every day — I can't think of anything else I'd want. In fact, my greatest ambition these days is to finish an Ironman Triathlon. One of these days, I might even start training for one. You're president of the United States for enough time to only make one executive decision. What is it? Full and complete withdrawals from both Iraq and Afghanistan. What's a common and accepted practice for Americans nowadays that you think we'll look back on with regret? Hating on gays. In a generation or two, opposition to gay marriage will seem barbaric, much like opposition to interracial marriage. What is your favorite body part (on yourself) and why? Legs. They are the only place on my body I've ever been able to grow a muscle. What would you attempt to do if you knew that you could not fail? If it's worth doing and I want to do it, then I'll try it. I've never been afraid to fail. In fact, some of my best lessons were learned via failure. In fact, I can't think of anything more boring than doing something with guaranteed success. I need a little uncertainty and drama in my life to make it worth living. On what type of products do you never go cheap on, for the sake of quality? Everything. I buy for the long-haul. Every time I've gone cheap I've ended up upgrading, costing me extra money in the end. Describe a few pet peeves of yours. The Beltway punditry, and its obsession of process over policy. Any politician or pundit who claims to speak for "the American people." Democrats who think they need to act like Republicans to get elected. Email. How often do you Google yourself? Never. Half the links are people who like me. The other half are people who hate me. And then there's the crank who thinks I'm an undercover CIA agent sent to destroy the progressive movement. I've seen more than enough praise and criticism to last a lifetime. What do you know now that you wished someone had told you ten years ago? Buy early into Google. Oh, and wait a couple of years before you buy your house. What childhood event shaped or scarred you the most? I was nine when my family came to the United States from El Salvador, in 1980. I've seen war up front and way too personal. Would you rather:… …live without music or live without TV? I'm a trained classical pianist, and it remains among my most cherished hobbies. I'd give up my TV before I gave up my piano. But good thing you didn't ask about the internet. …be gossiped about or never talked about at all? Your relevance is directly proportional to the amount of chatter you generate about yourself. Given that I'm trying to have an impact on the American political system, I'm more than happy to tolerate crazy CIA conspiracy theories about me. Think of one of your least favorite people in Washington and, without naming them, describe what makes that person so unappealing. Heck, anyone who thinks process — like "bipartisanship" — is more important than the actual end policy. People's lives are at stake. No one cares how a piece of legislation was passed, they only care if it makes their lives better. Let your mother know how much she means to you, in the form of a haiku. Roger Ebert, Hypocrisy, and 'the Big Lie' advertisements GA_googleFillSlot("left1"); GA_googleFillSlot("left2"); GA_googleFillSlot("left3"); GA_googleFillSlot("left4"); GA_googleFillSlot("left5"); Print|Email Roger Ebert, Hypocrisy, and "the Big Lie" Michael C. Moynihan | August 26, 2010. As I observed on Twitter last night (which you would have known if you were following me), the strangest thing about Markos Moulitsas's stupid new book American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right is that it is blurbed by David Coverdale, the leather-faced former Whitesnake front man. Quoth Mr. Tawney Kitaen, "American Taliban shines a blinding light on the conservative right's dark agenda. Anyone who genuinely cares about America should read this book."� The title of Moulitsas' book is pretty self-explanatory, but according to the promotional materials provided by the publisher, the DailyKos founder "pulls no punches as he compares how the Republican Party and Islamic radicals maintain similar worldviews and tactics."� To my comrades on the left, congratulations on the acquisition of your very own Dinesh D'Souza. But today I noticed a few other effusive blurb writers praising the Republican-Taliban connection: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is, I am often told, a paragon of reason on cable news. Indeed, she opined to Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.): "Do you feel like it's possible to have a constructive debate, even about hot-button issues like abortion, like some of the other things that have attracted some of the most extreme rhetoric? Or do you feel like things have now been so heated, for so long, and there's been so many exaggerations that the prospects for civil discussion are dim?"� Yes, purge the extreme, over-heated rhetoric from the debate. by providing a blurb for a book comparing the Republican Party to the Taliban! Because, as Maddow says, "It isn't possible to understand American politics now without understanding the worldview and arguments of Markos Moulitsas."� In a recent blog post upbraiding Glenn Beck for his reckless invocations of Nazism and Communism, Roger Ebert, the boring movie critic turned heavy-breathing political blogger, laments the "increasing tendency of the extreme right to automatically describe its opponents in negative buzz words."� Couldn't agree more, Roger. But wait! Here he is, offering a warm encomium to American Taliban and Moulitsas, who "alerts us to a clear and present danger in America: radical zealots who disregard our Constitution and our freedoms and who disguise themselves as patriots."� In Ebert's post on Beck, he rightly bemoans the lazy use of Nazi references, "This whole argument is described by a term widely familiar on the internet (sic), the (sic) reductio ad Hitlerum. It is also known, Wikipedia explains, as playing the Nazi card."� But that's only when the other side calls people fascists; when Ebert does it, it's with a certain measure of precision and élan.