Allah tried to be a peacemaker once before, stepping into the middle of a "kerfuffle" between Michele of ASV and Bill of INDC a while I ago... I should know, I gave 'em each 20 bucks so that they could iron out their differences over a "vitual drink" (I think they each bought some cheap beer and pocketed the rest).

He and I once got into a small dispute over at Michele's site, but it ended without too much bloodshed. It certainly didn't blow up the way I've seen these things go in the past.

Generals who speak like that should leave the military immediately. His statements raise the tension level and provoke the armed opposition to take violent action against the people under his command.

He got too relaxed, felt like he was among friends, considered it a sort of joke.

Bad news.

Andrea Harris is one of your favorite bloggers?

Oh, well.

Your comment window says: "Remember: Be polite. Attack ideas, not people." Harris's original post said, "fuck you, Patticakes" (later changed to "fuck you, Patterico" -- because, Harris explained, "Patticakes" was "just not up to [her] preferred level of invective"!).

Then she pretended to feel threatened when Xrlq made a joke about how she should be kicked off the Internet.

FWIW, I eventually moderated my position on Mattis's comments -- after reading views of bloggers who somehow managed to disagree with me without telling me to fuck myself. I still think his comments were a mistake, but I have backed off my original position that he should be punished severely.

http://patterico.com/2005/02/17/2671/hopefully-final-thoughts-on-mattis/

I have heard a lot of good things about Gen. Mattis and I have respect for him. I can't say the same about Andrea Harris, who was sometimes a chest-beater, sometimes a whiner -- but almost always shrill, insulting, unpleasant, and juvenile.

Talk to Xrlq for more details.

One more thing: people who read this post and don't know the background should know that I did not (even arguably) engage in either lethal threats or legal action, and that you're not referring to me when you talk about that.

Btw, thanks for calling me one of your favorite bloggers!

Here's is what Patterico referred to:

http://xrlq.com/2005/02/09/2156/blogtard-of-the-day-andrea-harris/
http://victorysoap.us/archives/2005/02/mistake_of_the.php
http://victorysoap.us/archives/2005/02/message_to_xluu.php