Palpable concern.

Well, Structuralist IR Theory would state that MSNBC NEVER had influence over foreign policy.  Not special interest groups, not leaders, not even large corporations: a country does what it's going to do.  It's the IR Theory that people like Mearsheimer champion and spend their careers explaining.

Yakk: If an MSNC falls in a forest and only NRO sees it, does anyone hear the derp?

Your end was to paint MSNBC as "derpful".

And your means of such includes writing "MSNC"?

Good luck with that.

Well, as someone who is in Afghanistan right now, all I can say is, "guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhfaaaaccckkkkk this place."

I hope my insight may shed some light on the delicate situation and complex politics of the issue.

Zagloba: vygramul: Well, Structuralist IR Theory would state that MSNBC NEVER had influence over foreign policy.  Not special interest groups, not leaders, not even large corporations: a country does what it's going to do.  It's the IR Theory that people like Mearsheimer champion and spend their careers explaining.

...and certainly not lobbies. Especially of the Israel variety.

/WTF are you smoking?

...and that's why I have to question Mearsheimer.  He's a structuralist.  He is a professor of IR who says lobbies and interest groups have no effect on foreign policy.  And then he writes a book about how Israel is the one big exception.  It doesn't reflect well to have that kind of glaring contradiction.

I've never been a fan of structuralism.  But I am less of a fan of people who believe exceptions don't prove a hypothesis false.  Mearsheimer should look at his conclusions about Israel and realize his entire structuralist world-view is wrong.  Instead, he just says it's an exception, but otherwise structuralism is correct.  It's the height of bullshiat.

But, then, IR theory is the Swiss-Cheese of political science: full of holes.

So, in answer to your question: I'm not smoking anything.  Mearsheimer is.  Whether he smoked it while writing the book, or whether that's the only time he's NOT smoking is left as an exercise for the reader.

valid point about women but fark em. we have spent far too much time, money and lives in that shiat hole of corruption and ass backwardness. send the word out that the drones will still be flying and with the cost saving in manpower and no bribes they can launch a lot more hellfires.

an occasional agent orange flyover of a poppy field or two wouldn't hurt either.

IlGreven: On MSNBC, Ed Schultz is super-liberal and Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes are pragmatic liberal. Everyone else on the network is no further left than dead center.

Bedtime 10 pm? Lawrence O'Donnell is in there with Maddow and Hayes. Matthews is between Maddow and Schultz. Al Sharpton just attacks the GOP more than he ever espouses any actual thought or ideas.

Obama takes regular hits from the hosts on Guantanamo, drones and Afghanistan among other things and has for some time but has most assuredly NOT lost the support of msnbc.

And they will not be supporting Nader in 2016.

I don't trust any headline that doesn't start with a ridiculous notion and end in a question mark.