On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:33:36 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As expected you start off with an attack. > > Actually, it was a description. Hackery is as hackery > does. Since you questioned my qualifications
I said "Your expertise lately seems to be partisan slash attacks using Freeper sources and arguments." We can go back through this list and find your many slash attacks with tactics and arguments similar to those found on the Free Republic website. I do not know any professional qualifications you claim to have. >and made > a statement about Keegan's, to put it mildly, you > earned it. Since you so proudly opine on these issues > and call into question the abilities of one of the > world's foremost military historians and mine - and > I'm a professional in this field too, by the way - I > think I'm justified in asking where you get off doing > so. Again, you do not dispute any of the facts I presented. Do you now dispute my right to have an opinion here? As a supporter of Hamilton are you one of his "Hamiltonian elistists" who fears and distrusts the democratic mob? Are you a neo-Straussian who fells that he is a member of an elite who needs to guide the world through necessary lies to the mass of citizens? >What are yours, exactly? If Keegan's lack of > military service disqualifies him, what was yours, > exactly? I did not say it disqualified him, but as one who called forth young men to go forth to war against the heathen foe it deserves to be mentioned. >What training in security studies, military > history, strategic theory, or international security > do you have, exactly that make you qualified to do that? Makes me qualified to do what? To point out where the others are located who think he is "a brilliant military historian"? To point out where other historians show Keegan has numerous errors of fact in a recent book? To point out that reviewers have called his Iraq War book a combination of "brilliance and idiocy"? To point out where he gives his opinions on Muslims and the War on terror? To point out he is the pro-Iraq War military editor and writer for a British newspaper. What qualifications does one need to do that? Where is anything I have said , and I have said very little, I prefer to point to others who say what needs to be said, demand training in "training in security studies, military, history, strategic theory, or international security." Not required but I will respond to some of that. Actually I happen to have had college courses in military history, international relations, futures studies, and behavioral science. My professional background includes Marketing Analyst, Retail Sales Planning and Forecasting, Research Analyst, Security Consultant and Freelance Writer. Mainly this enables me to recognize spin and BS and research the facts. What qualifications do you have to demand that others must have professional training to disagree with you? Don't give me BS about defending an honoured historian. I cited everything I said about him. What personality and political quirks brings a demand to know elistist qualifications to express an opinion? I note that you are now having strident disagreements with the person this list is named after, who happens to be a professional futurist and writer. Has he demanded you write a few books before you disagree with him? Gary Denton -- TANSTAAFL Maru -- #1 on google for liberal news _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
