From the print and online editions of the nation's premier urban-policy magazine http://www.city-journal.org/cj-comments.xml?story=8062 Manhattan Institute "He wondered out loud why that crowd disliked Americans so much." Religous Ideology! Indoctrination from an impressinable age! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#45194 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#45194 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:28:05 EST Sanguinary: "characterized by slaughter" from online etymology dictionary. Odd that Athenians are committing suicide over the possibility that they might not get to freeload off of the rest of Europe. Maybe that expectation of others' largesse is a mindset that will remove itself from the meme pool. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15882 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15882 Tue, 08 May 2012 08:25:14 EDT I sympathize with the journalists. There is one country in the Middle East where they could write pretty much whatever they wanted about the government without a moment's apprehension of being tossed in jail or punished in any way. My guess is that it's the one country in the region to which their opprobrium is reliably turned. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15871 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15871 Mon, 07 May 2012 21:49:57 EDT CB: I asked: Does it make you melancholy? Yes, he said. Think of it: they were just as intelligent as we are. Well, yes, as individuals, but as a society.... The Mother Goddess always requires human sacrifice http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15869 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15869 Mon, 07 May 2012 21:32:52 EDT "The Cold War was ugly." And the Leftists lost...still fighting the great battle, hating the same people. Scew 'em, can't take a joke, can they? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15865 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15865 Mon, 07 May 2012 19:29:18 EDT Don't try to suggest in Ízmir that people like Edogan is liked. He is pretty widely reviled in Turkey's most liberal (in its real meaning) and secular city. Don't tell my father-in-law that everyone has healthcare; the laughter might cause a heart attack, and he can't afford to see a GP let alone visit a hospital. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15863 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15863 Mon, 07 May 2012 19:14:07 EDT Years ago, I had experience with Greeks and Turks, both groups living in Munich. Very unpleasant people, both groups, and highly anti-American. I know I should care what happens to their countries, but I don't. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15862 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15862 Mon, 07 May 2012 18:44:37 EDT America is the worst nation in the world, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15861 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15861 Mon, 07 May 2012 18:40:34 EDT The Cold War was indeed ugly. But why the dislike for Americans? The Bear lives just across the Black Sea; without American power the Turks would have been one more snack. The Greeks almost were. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15860 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15860 Mon, 07 May 2012 18:40:27 EDT Ah, the sin of envy. Never confessed, always embraced. Et satan conduit le bal. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15564 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15564 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:53:47 EDT Ah, the Church of St. Georges ruins? Et satan conduit le bal! http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15563 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15563 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:29:44 EDT Claire Berlinski is an international poetess who lives in Constantinople. http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15543 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15543 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:53:59 EDT Sanguinary coups: that's a bit vague Claire. Sanguinary means cheerful, doesn't it Actually the coups were not particularly bloody, if that is what is implied and rules for evidence for detainees and the nature of indictments seem rather in advance of those applied today. But why quarral with the folklore? http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15541 http://www.city-journal.org/comments/index.php?story=8062#15541 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:18:32 EDT