




if (typeof(disqus_iframe_css) == 'undefined') {
	disqus_iframe_css = '';
}
if (typeof(disqus_def_name) == 'undefined') {
	disqus_def_name = '';
}
if (typeof(disqus_def_email) == 'undefined') {
	disqus_def_email = '';
}
if (typeof(disqus_skip_auth) == 'undefined') {
	disqus_skip_auth = false;
}
if (typeof(disqus_default_text) == 'undefined') {
	disqus_default_text = 'Type your comment here.';
}

(function(){
	
	var ie = document.uniqueID
		&& document.compatMode
		&& !window.XMLHttpRequest
		&& document.execCommand ;

	try {
		if(!!ie) {
			document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache", false, true);
		}
	} catch(e) {};
})();

var Dsq = new function() {
	this.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
	this.jsonData = {"reactions": [], "has_more_reactions": false, "users": {"EEllis": {"username": "EEllis", "tumblr": "", "display_name": "EEllis", "url": "http://disqus.com/EEllis/", "registered": true, "linkedin": "", "blog": "", "remote_domain": null, "points": 112, "facebook": "", "avatar": "http://media.disqus.com/uploads/forums/2724//avatar92.jpg", "delicious": "", "is_remote": false, "verified": true, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}, "runasim": {"username": "runasim", "tumblr": "", "display_name": "runasim", "url": "http://disqus.com/runasim/", "registered": true, "linkedin": "", "blog": "", "remote_domain": null, "points": 143, "facebook": "", "avatar": "http://media.disqus.com/uploads/forums/2724//avatar92.jpg", "delicious": "", "is_remote": false, "verified": false, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}, "Neocon": {"username": "Neocon", "tumblr": "", "display_name": "Neocon", "url": "http://disqus.com/Neocon/", "registered": true, "linkedin": "", "blog": "", "remote_domain": null, "points": 1, "facebook": "", "avatar": "http://media.disqus.com/uploads/forums/2724//avatar92.jpg", "delicious": "", "is_remote": false, "verified": false, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}, "WagnerSch": {"username": "WagnerSch", "tumblr": "", "display_name": "WagnerSch", "url": "http://disqus.com/WagnerSch/", "registered": true, "linkedin": "", "blog": "", "remote_domain": null, "points": 3, "facebook": "", "avatar": "http://media.disqus.com/uploads/forums/2724//avatar92.jpg", "delicious": "", "is_remote": false, "verified": false, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}, "CStanley": {"username": "CStanley", "tumblr": "", "display_name": "CStanley", "url": "http://disqus.com/CStanley/", "registered": true, "linkedin": "", "blog": "", "remote_domain": null, "points": 569, "facebook": "", "avatar": "http://media.disqus.com/uploads/forums/2724//avatar92.jpg", "delicious": "", "is_remote": false, "verified": true, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}, "ChrisWWW": {"username": "ChrisWWW", "tumblr": "", "display_name": "ChrisWWW", "url": "http://disqus.com/ChrisWWW/", "registered": true, "linkedin": "", "blog": "http://www.whyweworry.com", "remote_domain": null, "points": 762, "facebook": "", "avatar": "http://media.disqus.com/uploads/users/5979/avatar92.jpg", "delicious": "", "is_remote": false, "verified": true, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}, "MsSwin": {"username": "MsSwin", "tumblr": "", "display_name": "MsSwin", "url": "http://disqus.com/MsSwin/", "registered": true, "linkedin": "", "blog": "http://dotpoli.com", "remote_domain": null, "points": 2, "facebook": "", "avatar": "http://media.disqus.com/uploads/users/22584/avatar92.jpg", "delicious": "", "is_remote": false, "verified": false, "flickr": "", "twitter": "", "remote_domain_name": ""}}, "forum": {"use_media": false, "name": "The Moderate Voice", "streaming_realtime": false, "url": "themoderatevoice", "allow_anon_post": false, "reactions_enabled": true, "reply_position": 1, "show_avatar": true, "allow_anon_votes": false, "disqus_auth_disabled": false}, "realtime_enabled": false, "request": {"username": "", "is_global_moderator": false, "sharing": {}, "sort": 4, "forum": "themoderatevoice", "is_initial_load": true, "is_authenticated": false, "timestamp": "2009-12-18_22:54:49", "remote_domain": "", "page": 1, "is_moderator": false, "display_username": "", "points": null, "subscribe_on_post": 2, "moderator_can_edit": false, "is_remote": false, "is_verified": false, "missing_perm": "locked"}, "realtime_paused": false, "posts": {"500096": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We could, for example, couple discussing Israel's policies with discussing the more questionable policies of its neighbors. <br>  <br>Linkage does not work.  <br><br> Linkage is what the progressives are demanding of the Middle east.  50 years of progressive rule and the way things are shaping up in Europe and Israel will once again be homeless.<br><br>They have found a champion in Barak Obama.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_20:08:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "Neocon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498945": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CStanley,<br>\"What specifically can we do to support Israel that isn't an 'emotional' reaction?\"<br><br>The ultimate goal, would be to regain  a position of trrustwrothiness among Israel's neighbors.  That's important in order to be able to pressure them into doing their part  to resolve the conflict(s) instead of just sitting back pointing fingers at Israel and the US.  <br><br>Why aren't the 'moderate' Arab nations busy helping Palestinians  develop economically, for example?   We can't pressure them, becasue anything the US says is immediatley suspected  of  being  a ploy to enhance Israel's position and, diminish theirs. <br><br>One immediate step toward reaching that goal would be to watch what we say how we say it, and what we don't say.  Words can create powerful perceptions.<br><br>It is a problem, when the humanitarian US,, busy promoting democracy,, never has one word  of sympathy for the cilivians dying in Gaza.  Dead children are dead children,  no matter what political party rules them.  Choosing words carefully can eliminate all political connotations and at the same time express  a common humanity.    Even some Jews recognize this, and there have been attempts by mourning mothers in Israel to reach out ot mourning mothers in Gaza.   It's not easy, and nothing is solved by the odd, sporadic gesture.  However, the act of reaching out, suffering human to suffering human, reframes the picture.  Similarly, we could realign the picture of the US in the ME.<br><br>When the Arabs presened their iproposal for a setlement, why was there no recognition of the effortt, even if it was undoable?  Words matter.<br><br>Why have we not talked about the cluster bombs left in Lebanon?<br>Why is nothing said about the fact that God seems to have promised the same land to two different peoples?<br><br>These are complicated issues, and it may well be that Israel is right on them.<br>The fact that these are taboo subjects in US politics, however, sends only one message to Israel's neighbors:  The US  has a closed mind when it comes to their oncerns.  The result is that  the US is shut out of the avenues of influence and persuasion. through which it could support Israel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:58:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "runasim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "499332": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CStanley,<br>The only persuasion involved was that Kennedy found a way to give in to Kruschev's demand, removing missiles from Turkey, while saving face by insisting that this part of the deal be kept secret. -<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Are you saying that a nuclear war would have been the better result, so that  those who might object  could save some abstract principle?  Just how many people have to die for the sake of a cut-'in'-stone principke that benefits no living soul?<br><br>How have we suffered, btw, by removing a few missiles from Turkey?  How did that, in any way, impinge on subsequent US interests?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_17:52:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "runasim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "502785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CStanley,<br>Allow me to clarify then. I think ceding part of Czechoslovakia was a mistake. Among other things, Czechoslovakia was a sovereign nation and it wasn't Neville Chamberlain's to give away. <br><br>However, while ceding part of Czechoslovakia was a mistake, I still don't think it had any significant effect on the subsequent war. I don't think Hitler was \"emboldened\" by Chamberlain or anything like that. War was inevitable. The fall of the entirety of Czechoslovakia was probably inevitable too. <br><br>The reason I brought it up at all was because I find the Republican's rhetorical use of the Munich agreement as being dishonest by reason of incompleteness. This is how an honest Munich agreement argument would go:<br><br><b>War between the United States and Iran is inescapable. Diplomacy of any kind will never alleviate the tension between our two nations.</b><br><br>That's the only way it works, unless you honestly think that Obama is going to cede something significant to Iran. And no, a propaganda victory doesn't count.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_10:22:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "496520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>If our current bellicose stance hasn't worked (and it hasn't), America would be insane not to try a different approach.</i><br><br>But the point is, WHAT OTHER APPROACH? Why can't anyone describe how talks with Iran could possibly be constructive, and whether or not we have any leverage to negotiate with them? If we don't currently have leverage, how could we get some? And if we don't, then how is it not a net negative to hold negotiations that are obviously only going to result in a PR victory for Iran?<br><br>If the answer is, as Obama's surrogates are saying, that we get leverage first through \"preparation\" before holding the high level talks, then I'd like to know how that is different from the Bush administration's approach other than the substitution of the word \"preparation\" for \"preconditions\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_11:25:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "499977": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Runasim- let me dispense with the Cuban missile crisis comment first. Where did I say that the result wasn't the best possible one under the circumstances? I actually said precisely the opposite- that Kennedy did what he had to do. My comment about it was just to point out that you are using it as an example of something that it is not an example of.<br><i>Why aren't the 'moderate' Arab nations busy helping Palestinians develop economically, for example? We can't pressure them, becasue anything the US says is immediatley suspected of being a ploy to enhance Israel's position and, diminish theirs. </i><br>The problem as I see it here is that you assume there is anything that the US could say which would change the opinion in the Arab world. I don't think there really was EVER a time when that was true, and even if I concede that sometimes our actions and words have made that situation worse, that's still the reality that we have to deal with and I sincerely believe that any attempt to 'speak softly' now will only be interpreted as weakness, not a show of good faith.<br><br>As a rationale for my belief, I noted in another blog comment elsewhere today that when we finally had an opportunity to read the internal communications of the USSR government during the Cold War, it was revealed that although things weren't black and white (USSR wasn't strictly acting out of imperialism, but was indeed sometimes reacting to their own perception of threat from US,) it was also the case that their leaders would not have taken any action on our part as a show of good faith in threat reduction. They would have exploited any such moves as weaknesses on our part. I see no reason to assume otherwise about those who oppose us today.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_19:45:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498882": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>If that's the case, you don't see a problem with strengthening the hand of the aggressor before you join in the effort to defeat him??</blockquote><br>That's hardly my point.<br><br>If you equate *any* negotiation with appeasement then you abandon anything but a sliver of hope for a diplomatic path to peace.<br><br>Let me tell you what would really be appeasement. Offering to help them dismantle Israel in return for their nuclear program. Offering to let them annex Iraq in return for their nuclear program. Giving them Florida for their nuclear program.<br><br>As opposed to say ending certain sanctions in return for their nuclear program, or helping them generate other sources of energy. <br><br>See the difference?<br><br><blockquote>So Chris, no matter what you feel about those Israeli policies, and I think there is room for criticism, there's a difference between private discussions we might have with Israel and publicly selling them down the river.</blockquote><br>How would we be selling them down the river by negotiating with Iran publicly? Wouldn't we have to be actually, you know, trading something valuable of Israels to Iran for that to be the case?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:47:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "500497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>I sincerely believe that any attempt to 'speak softly' now will only be interpreted as weakness, not a show of good faith.</blockquote><br>And even if it is, what are you afraid of? What more are these guys gonna do? Toughen up CStanley! We're the big badass USA. We could handle the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and we can handle little old Iran.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_21:48:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "499994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Why aren't the 'moderate' Arab nations busy helping Palestinians develop economically, for example? </i> Because their leaders have chosen instead to keep picking at this scab since it serves as a useful scapegoat to distract from their own inadequacies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_19:47:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498843": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>So you're not really worried about appeasement but propaganda victories? Or, propaganda victories = appeasement? </i>I'd say that handing the opponent a propaganda victory is one form of appeasement, yes. Particularly in today's geopolitical climate, where world opinion is so important- and voicing sympathy with the complaints of the terrorists and terrorist supporting states as well as publicly doing a mea culpa over the US's 'cowboy diplomacy' do in effect hand over those propaganda victories.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:41:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "501148": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CStanley,<br>You're unable to articulate in concrete terms what the potential downside would be to negotiations. I've heard a lot about nebulous words like 'propaganda victory,' and 'sign of weakness' but little in the way of consequences that mean anything outside of the realm of pride.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_00:46:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "500506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>50 years of progressive rule and the way things are shaping up in Europe and Israel will once again be homeless.</blockquote><br>Is there any way we can bring you down from the mountain of hyperbole?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_21:50:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "504474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Biden's is the most cutting, so I'll give you that one first:<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IRYCHy3y4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IRYCHy3y4</a><br><br>Here's Rice dialing down on the idea that it would be Ahmad. specificallly that Obama would meet with (yet Obama did at least one time say that he'd meet with Ahmad.):<br><a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xj82Zuc0Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xj82Zuc0Y</a><br><br>You'll have to google for the others, I've gotta run...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_13:52:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "501297": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, Chris, considering that you've already said that you don't consider giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler to be an error of significance, I'm going to assume that I can't persuade you that giving propaganda victories is significant even though I think history supports my view that both are so.<br><br>Best quick example I can think of where a president naively approached a summit meeting and came out with egg on his face would be Kennedy, 1961, Vienna summit. As far as I know, most historians view that meeting as an utter failure (certainly there are accounts that have Kennedy himself reporting it as such) and many see a connection between Bay of Pigs, Vienna Summit, and the subsequent emboldening that led Kruschev to begin building missiles in Cuba. So as I've asked elsewhere- when Obama compares himself to Kennedy, is he saying he'll be like the neophyte Kennedy or the one who emerged after realizing that talking without having leverage could bring us to the brink of war?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_01:47:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "497576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What exactly is the downside to negotiations? Even without preconditions and preparations? Please explain.<br><br>And let me tell you the real significance of the rightwing's use of the Munich Agreement. It means that rightwing sees war between the United States and Iran as inevitable. Does anyone seriously think the Munich Agreement had any serious effect on WW2 one way or the other? Hitler was going to invade Poland, and he was going to take all of Czechoslovakia. War was inevitable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_13:45:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "496426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...and Conservatives need to learn that going to war with your supposed enemies NEVER leads to peace.<br><br>If our current bellicose stance hasn't worked (and it hasn't), America would be insane not to try a different approach.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_11:09:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "WagnerSch", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "502315": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris, I honestly didn't think I was twisting your words, though I admit to phrasing it with a sarcastic tone. If you think that I mischaracterized you then I'll have to explain further what you meant by your earlier statement:<br><i>Does anyone seriously think the Munich Agreement had any serious effect on WW2 one way or the other? Hitler was going to invade Poland, and he was going to take all of Czechoslovakia. War was inevitable.</i><br>How is not having \"any serious effect\" different from my paraphrase \"&lt;not&gt; an error of significance?\"<br><br>And the funny thing is that what you wrote to show an example of twisting my words was pretty much what runasim already did, or didn't you notice?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_09:09:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "503598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>And no, a propaganda victory doesn't count.</i><br><br>By your measure it doesn't. Let me try one more way to get you to see why it does.<br><br>If Iran scores a propaganda victory, several things happen.<br><br>One, the neutering of the UN Security Council is almost complete (not that that hasn't already transpired, see <i>Hussein, Saddam</i>.) The idea that Iran has to suspend enrichment isn't just a precondition that the US has placed on them, it's the result of the SC resolution. Apparently a US president isn't supposed to act unilaterally in defiance of the SC, unless he's doing so in a way that weakens the response.<br><br>Second, the result of legitimizing Ahmedinejad makes is much less likely that the internal opposition to him from more moderate leaders will oust him. I don't know if you are one who refuses to read anything by Taheri but he's got an article about how this is already manifesting itself, since some of the leaders are deciding to play a waiting game with the US election. That's actually one of the main points of the current strategy- that diplomatic isolation coupled with economic sanctions can force Iran to moderate, because their isolated position isn't sustainable.<br><br>And for the third part, what you seem to ignore is that the US is part of the Quartet negotiating for a peaceful settlement of the two state map for Israel and Palestine. So in that regard, if we fail to support Israel's interests for her own existence by legitimizing a leader who has stated a desire to obliterate her, then we are doing exactly what you've said Chamberlain did to Czechoslovakia- giving away what isn't ours to give. Obviously we wouldn't be doing it directly- no one is claiming that Obama's planning to sign an agreement saying that Israel no longer exists and the Palestinians are the rightful inhabitants of that entire territory. But in effect what Chamberlain did was assure Germany that the Allies wouldn't defend that territory that he wanted to take-and that's the exact same effect of going to Iran and allowing them to believe that we don't have the resolve to defend Israeli territory.<br><br>And sorry, but I reject your assertion that WWII was inevitable. Even if it was, there's certainly reason to believe it would have been a much more limited conflict if the Allies had acted with resolve instead of an attempt to placate Hitler. But the basic premise of those of us who support a harder line diplomacy is that such approaches work better to prevent war than a softer approach does, at least in situations where you face a determined aggressor. The way I see it, the real question is whether the aggressive motivations are really there or not; currently many conservatives see that motivation in Ahmadinejad but not necessarily in the more moderate mullahs of Iran. So forcing Iran to choose between the aggressive and the more acceptable course for regional stability is based on making the mullahs see that Ahmad's way is a dead end.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_12:15:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498824": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Does anyone seriously think the Munich Agreement had any serious effect on WW2 one way or the other? Hitler was going to invade Poland, and he was going to take all of Czechoslovakia. War was inevitable.</i>Actually, I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who DOESN'T think that- or at least that the war could have been won much more quickly and with less bloodshed if the capitulation hadn't occurred. I mean think about what you are saying here- war was inevitable. If that's the case, you don't see a problem with strengthening the hand of the aggressor before you join in the effort to defeat him??<br><br>And that's the point- sometimes war really is inevitable, unless the would be agressor sees that there's enough resolve on the part of the allies of the nation that they seek to conquer that they calculate that they can't win and so they back down. Look at Korea as an example- Truman's administration listed the nations they'd support militarily against aggression and left Korea off the list, which was quickly jumped upon as an opportunity for N. Korea to attempt to annex the south. If the US publicly criticizes Israel or signals weakness in our resolve to come to her defense, a similar dynamic is likely to occur.<br><br>So Chris, no matter what you feel about those Israeli policies, and I think there is room for criticism, there's a difference between private discussions we might have with Israel and publicly selling them down the river.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:38:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498867": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Look at it this way, Chris- is there any doubt that getting world opinion on the side of the terrorists is the coin of the realm these days? And if so, then how is that propaganda victory different than scoring a land concession as in Munich?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:45:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "505781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So Chris then we have your assurance and agreement that Israel is safe, must be protected and that no further concessions on their part is necessary.<br><br>Further that Barak Obama will not demand that Israel give up anything but will in fact bargain with Hamas and everyone else who wants to destroy Israel with an iron fist because \"Israel's security\" is first and foremost.<br><br>I am glad to know that you favor those things.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_16:46:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "Neocon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris, you are so far to the left that I don't think I can debate these issues with you- we just don't see things the same way at all. And you apparently criticize Obama from the left while I'm critical of him from the other direction, so it's hard to have a real discussion on merits or shortcomings of his policies that way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:27:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "502170": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>Well, Chris, considering that you've already said that you don't consider giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler to be an error of significance...</blockquote><br>Oh come now... twisting my words like that is beneath you and unnecessary. I can play that game too.<br><br><i>Well, CStanley, given that you've already said you'd rather see a nuclear war than negotiations that could hand an adversary a PR victory, I don't know how I can convince you of the value of human life.</i>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_08:41:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>It's finding a way to make the deal in a way that doesn't harm one's own interests, which sometimes means making the deals behind closed doors and in non-public channels, so that the opponent doesn't score a propaganda victory.</blockquote><br><br>So you're not really worried about appeasement but propaganda victories? Or, propaganda victories = appeasement?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:28:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498629": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Again, going back to the Cuban missile crises, had JFk set preconditions to corresponding with the USSR, applying persuasion would not be possible, and KA-BOOM.</i><br><br>The only persuasion involved was that Kennedy found a way to give in to Kruschev's demand, removing missiles from Turkey, while saving face by insisting that this part of the deal be kept secret. That was a good thing, but that is not \"open diplomacy\" and it is not persuasion. It's finding a way to make the deal in a way that doesn't harm one's own interests, which sometimes means making the deals behind closed doors and in non-public channels, so that the opponent doesn't score a propaganda victory.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:10:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "495815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Since Obama's staff and surrogates are attempting to do damage control regarding his statements on negotiating without precondition, I can only assume one of two things must be true: either Obama answered that early debate question without having adequately considered the appropriate response, and now knows that he can't be seen as flipflopping so he's sticking by it even as everyone else around him changes the story- or, his debate response and website position have been crafted to appeal to the far left netroots and he actually has no intention of fulfilling that pledge (he'll find some way, of course, to fudge it and appear as though he is meeting without precondition when really there are preconditions, or he'll find some excuse for why a meeting isn't possible after all.)<br><br>In both cases, of course, that's a good thing, if he doesn't actually intend to follow through on a disastrous foreign policy that would make Jimmy Carter look like a master of diplomacy. I think there's still a very small chance that he really does mean what he says, but I think that's very remote (though it still will worry me if he's elected.)<br><br>Anyway- great piece, Dennis, and I'm glad someone is willing to ask the questions instead of just saying \"Bush's approach has been a disaster so we should do the opposite\" (The George Costanza Doctrine) or \"We should give Obama a chance\" (which apparently means we need to all turn our brains off and stop attempting to question whether or not he has good new ideas.)<br><br>Just to add a bit more to the issues you raised about the faults of both extreme approaches; diplomacy without leverage often leads to stall tactics being employed. That was one of the concerns pre-Iraq invasion, that if we were to have 'let the inspectors do their job', then Saddam would do what he had always done, and used the time to hide any weapons or weapons programs that he may have had, or as we later learned that he didn't have stockpiles he still would have dodged the bullet in that round of inspections and then gone back to planning his next move. It's an endless game for some of those players- and the current situation shows that Iran is probably playing the same game in continuing to enrich uranium while it figures out how to restart a weaponization program under the radar.<br><br>Propaganda is also a big downside to negotiations without leverage; by scheduling a summit level meeting, each country is saying it is willing to negotiate. If we're willing to 'sit down and talk' with Iran, the implication there is that we are willing to give some things in order to get other assurances- but if we're not willing to give any of the things that Iran would want us to give, then the meeting will fail to produce any results and the propaganda win goes to Iran (\"See, we were willing to discuss these things but the US will not negotiate on a single thing that we asked for!\") If that's going to be the outcome, then agreeing to the meeting in the first place leads to a greater PR disaster than not agreeing to the meeting until those preconditions are met. This is particularly true when some of the things we require of Iran involve their support of terrorist acts, killing of our troops, and threatening the existence of one of our allies. Having a meeting for the sake of having a meeting is obviously going to be seen as doing it from a state of weakness to negotiate for them to stop doing those things- which gives legitimacy not only to the govt that supports terrorism, but also to the terrorist acts themselves.<br><br>Now, those are weaknesses of the extreme pacifist view of negotiating no matter what. On the other extreme, blustering is certainly not helpful and constant brinkmanship (particularly when everyone knows you probably are NOT going to follow through because your military is stretched too thin) quickly takes away the leverage that you have.<br><br>Clearly the right approach is somewhere in the middle, with 'talking' being effective in some circumstances but not others. It's so important to determine what those criteria should be, and how we create leverage- and to examine each candidate to see if he/she understands this and has an idea of how to do it.  Since so much is at stake, wouldn't it be far better if we, the voters, could discuss those things without everyone taking it personally when one approach or the other is being criticized? How do we get past the \"How dare you call me an appeaser!\" or \"I am not a warmonger!\" nonsense?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_09:24:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "499532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Cstanley,<br>\"If the US publicly criticizes Israel or signals weakness in our resolve to come to her defense,...\"<br>----------------------------------<br><br>That is the ' if you don't support he war, then you are a traitor'  argument.<br>It's this  either/or phraseology that repeatedly lead us into blind alleys with no escape.<br><br>We can chew gum and walk at the same time,<br><br>Let me ask the oppostie question.   What is leading to decreased support for Israel in places like Europe?  It's the perception that they are obligated to support Israel, regardless of its policies, even to the point of sacrificing their own self interests.  .I think self-interest is bound to trump any other considerations in the long run. <br>To truly support Israel, then,  that perception has to be reversed.<br>No withdrawal of support at all is required, but a re-alignment of how these problemts are discussed is.<br><br>We could, for example, couple  discussing Israel's policies with  discussing the more questionable policies of its neighbors.   This would  put everything  in a regional framework, instead of keeping  it as Israel-aginst-the-world situation, where everyone has to choose sides.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_18:26:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "runasim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "495178": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"As it's unimaginable that any liberal, or anyone at all, is naive enought to believe that, I can only assume that this is a rhetorical statement , inserted for dramatic effect.\"<br><br>And I think that it is unimaginable  that you can belive what you just wrote. Just goes to show doesn't it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_05:44:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "EEllis", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "495564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Obama himself has repeatedly said that all options (and I think we all know what those options are) should be on the table, so I can't even fathom where such a notion came from.<br><br>The following are ALL from Israeli Papers during the course of the last 6 months.<br><br>Obama has repeatedly stated that he wants to engage in talks with an Iranian regime that incessantly talks of vaporizing Israel and is hell bent on developing nuclear weapons to accomplish this goal. When Hillary Clinton recently threatened to obliterate Iran if it attacked Israel, Obama actually scolded her for \"saber rattling.\"<br><br>So I think this shows that All options is just a metaphor to appease those who think he might be soft.<br><br>Additionally:<br><br>A group of experts collected by the Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz deemed him to be the candidate likely to be least supportive of Israel. He is the candidate most favored by the Arab-American community.  He is endorsed by Hamas.<br><br>This is so important a deal that on Barak Obama's own website they posted this:<br><br>Obama's camp is well-aware that the Israeli newspaper Haaretz -- in a recurring feature ranking the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates or people who may run on how good they are for Israel -- puts him last on its list.<br><br>In response to this the Obama Campaign has established a blogg in Israel to try and pull the wool over the eyes of the concerned Jewish nation as they have been able to do here in America.<br><br>And we have this:<br><br>Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, has long been recognized by Israeli leaders, including prime ministers, as biased against Israel and is notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state. He was appointed as a primary Obama adviser on the Middle East earlier this year.<br><br>And my favorite one is this in which Barak Obama is speaking of how he is perceived in the Middle East.<br><br>It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'\" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.<br><br>\"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security,\" Obama said. <br><br>Notice how he plays up his perceived Muslim ties when it suits him and screams foul when its used against him?<br><br>Moreover, Obama has stated that nobody is suffering more than the Palestinians. Obama is so anti-Israel that a high level Hamas adviser recently said that Hamas supports Obama's foreign policy vision.<br><br>I realize no ones listening.  Certainly at this blog.  But my mission continues.   Facts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_08:25:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "Neocon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "502222": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hyperbole...............A figure of speech in which exageragion is used for emphasis.<br><br>Everyone who follows politics knows that the far left which has repackaged themselves as progressives have always had a problem with Israel.  You hear it day in and day out.  You can see it in your writings.  The minute I posted about Sadat you had to throw out the Assassination of Begin and accuse me of intellectual dishonesty.  <br><br>The far left has always had social agendas in mind.  They want America to look like Europe with health care for all.  35 hour work weeks, government guarantees for everything they do from the time they get up in the morning till they go to bed at night.<br><br>Israel is a symbol to them.  It is the reason we fight in the middle east.  It is the reason we have a big military.  It is these reasons that we do not have health care and 35 hour work weeks and we do not have nirvana.  <br><br>So no.  There is no exxageration in my mind when I say given the predisposition of the Europeans toward Israel.  Given they put them on boats and told them to go away in 1948.  Given that they are Europes \"Slavery Issue\"  (you know that thing a country or a continent is most embarrassed about having in their past) Given that the only thing that has kept them from utterly abandoning Israel was their need to have close relationships to the United States with the USSR staring across barbed wire fences with 2 million soldiers just itching to eat them alive.<br><br>Now the USSR is gone.  And now there is no reason to hold the USA near and dear.  There is no evil empire to provide the cement that bonds the bricks of this realtionship together.  Their world is filling with Muslims as they have opened their doors to them because of serious shorfalls in birthrates in Europe due to several factors that I will not go into now.<br><br>The dynamics of what is transpiring in this world is simple.  Israels peaceful survival depends upon America.  Every other nation on earth has abandoned her a long time ago.  Europe has never been her friend and has never really pretended to be her friend since the 50's.<br><br>And now we have Barak Obama coming to power in America.  Being pushed to the gates of Babylon by the far left progressives and their anti Israel stance.  His rating by Israeli newspapers puts him at the bottom of the list of those candidates least likely to support Israel.  His chief middle east advisor has pushed Israel unmercifully for large concessions.<br><br>Appeasement is in the air.  Its just repackaged my friend.  Instead of the USA giving away Israel, Barak Obama is going to ask Israel to give herself away.  The results are the same.<br><br>If the progressive left (NOT DEMOCRATS) were in power for 50 years and if Europe continues on doing what they are doing today then there is no doubt in my mind that Israel would once again be homeless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_08:52:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "Neocon", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498896": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>Look at it this way, Chris- is there any doubt that getting world opinion on the side of the terrorists is the coin of the realm these days? And if so, then how is that propaganda victory different than scoring a land concession as in Munich?</blockquote><br><br>Yes, I think there are more important things to worry about than propaganda victories. How much of the world is sympathetic to \"the terrorists\" anyways?<br><br>=====<br>I'm heading home, so I won't be on for a while. But it's been a pleasure to argue with you CStanley, as usual.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_16:50:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>What specifically can we do to support Israel that isn't an 'emotional' reaction?</blockquote><br>Show our support for talks with Hamas (which Israel is already doing *gasp*).<br><br>Ask them to halt the new settlements and seriously consider rolling back existing ones. <br><br>Reexamine their policy toward the West Bank which is looking more and more like a set of Apartheid era bantustans everyday.<br><br>Those are just a few :-D", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_15:38:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Regarding the difference between preconditions and preparation,  again points to what is stupid (IMO, of course)  about how issues are debated in US politics.<br>That the question is even raised reflects an ongoing  and completely erroneous way ''talking' and 'negotiations' are represented by one sector of the public.   Neither entails capitulation, any more than saying 'good morning' to a neighbor means you'll be handing over your house to him in the afternoon. <br><br>Contact in some form, however, is necessary in order to use the art of persuasion.  A good example is the Cuban missile crises, when JFK  continued  the art of persuasion, by written word, all during and up to the final  resolution. of the crisis.  Had he not 'talked' to Kruschev by letter,  we might not be around to argue the finer points of foreign relations.  <br><br>Preparation is a must, a given, when adversaries  communicate in any way.or at any level.  <br>Preconditions are a much more risky tool.  We set preconditions to talking to Iran, and Iran said 'no, thanks'. Again, going back to the Cuban missile crises,  had JFk set preconditions to corresponding with the USSR, applying persuasion would not be possible, and KA-BOOM.  Is anyone unhappy that a nuclear war was averted and by lalking we persuaded  the USSR to back off?<br>Talking definitely did nto mean capitualation in that case. Neither did  persuasion exclude  the showcased military option, the 'on the table' part of stated positions.<br>That's what constitutes a full array of foreign relations tools:  talking, while the military option is plainly present.  <br><br>The either/or appraoch means cutting off 50% of resouces.  <br><br><br>'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_15:55:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "runasim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>Rather I try to gauge what would best serve US interests and Israel's interests. </i>What do you think that would be though? That's what I haven't heard anyone describe- it's all about criticism of our current policy (sometimes legitimate criticism, and sometimes a straw man version which pretends that we currently \"refuse to talk to our enemies\".<br><br>What specifically can we do to support Israel that isn't an 'emotional' reaction?<br><br>Is it necessary, in your opinion, to apply as much leverage as possible to preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weaponry, or are you one who believes that Iran won't do that anyway (wants only nuclear technology for energy use) or that it wants weapons but will only use them for political power in the region and to feel more secure in its own defense, rather than having any aim toward the destruction of Israel?<br><br>Those are the sort of questions that I wish Obama and his supporters would answer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_15:21:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "502886": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<blockquote>The minute I posted about Sadat you had to throw out the Assassination of Begin and accuse me of intellectual dishonesty.</blockquote><br>Because it was true :-) There are implacable nuts on both sides.<br><br><blockquote>Israel is a symbol to them. It is the reason we fight in the middle east. It is the reason we have a big military. It is these reasons that we do not have health care and 35 hour work weeks and we do not have nirvana.</blockquote><br>There's you climbing that mountain again...<br><br><blockquote>So no. There is no exxageration in my mind when I say given the predisposition of the Europeans toward Israel. Given they put them on boats and told them to go away in 1948.</blockquote><br>Uhh... remember how our government wouldn't let them come to the United States either?<br><br>Ben-Gurion was okay with that anyways, \"If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.\" - 1938<br><br><blockquote>Their world is filling with Muslims as they have opened their doors to them because of serious shorfalls in birthrates in Europe due to several factors that I will not go into now.</blockquote><br>O noes!<br><br><blockquote>Israels peaceful survival depends upon America.</blockquote><br>I thought it was assured by their secret nuclear arsenal?<br><br><blockquote>And now we have Barak Obama coming to power in America. Being pushed to the gates of Babylon by the far left progressives and their anti Israel stance. His rating by Israeli newspapers puts him at the bottom of the list of those candidates least likely to support Israel. His chief middle east advisor has pushed Israel unmercifully for large concessions.</blockquote><br>The air must be thin at the top of the mountain :-)<br><br>You realize that Jews in America overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party and Barack Obama in a matchup with McCain?<br><br><blockquote>Appeasement is in the air. Its just repackaged my friend. Instead of the USA giving away Israel, Barak Obama is going to ask Israel to give herself away. The results are the same.</blockquote><br>Is this before or after he gives reparations to African Americans? He'll probably sign that one into law while sitting in a mosque!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_10:35:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "510441": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't know if Chris or anyone else is still checking in here, but I just came across this:<br><a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/opinion/22thrall.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/opinion/22thr...</a><br><br>I don't know who these authors are but they're channelling me! Maybe they read my blog comments and decided to write an op-ed with my thesis. LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-22_11:21:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "503719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Also, Chris, you might want to note that everyone from Bill Richardson to Chris Dodd to Joe Biden to Susan Rice is attempting to back off of Obama's stated position, so maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world really does think it's naive and a bit dangerous to pledge to talk mano-a-mano with leaders of countries that support terrorism and have nuclear aims, without precondition?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_12:25:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "504172": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CStanley,<br>I didn't note that. Link me!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_13:15:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ChrisWWW", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "505327": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Appeasers\" who have caught hell from the far right:<br><br>John F. Kennedy for promising not to invade Cuba if missiles were withdrawn by Russia<br><br>Dwight D. Eisenhower for inviting Khrushchev to the United States<br><br>Ronald Reagan for reaching arms control agreement with Gorbachev<br><br>Obama for even suggeting talking with our foes<br><br>\"Appeasers\" who have not caught hell from the far right:<br><br>George W. Bush for talking and negotiating with Libya, North Korea and Iran", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-21_15:45:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "MsSwin", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "494964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Liberals need to learn that talking with a supposed enemy doesn\u2019t always lead to peace\"<br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>As  it's unimaginable that any liberal, or anyone at all,  is naive enought to believe that, I can only assume that this is a rhetorical statement , inserted for dramatic effect.<br>Obama himself has repeatedly said that all  options (and I think we all know what those options are)  should be on the table, so I can't even fathom where such a notion came from.<br><br>Obama would have to speak for himself regarding  exactly how he plans to  implement  his ideas regarding Iran.   The damage there has already been done, and Obama (or whoever will be the next president)  is not going to have the ooportnity  to srart fresh.  He/she will be entereing in the middle of a fight, not the beginning. .  All he can do is signal  Iran   that he is diffrent, from Bush  and he can only do so by emphasizing the difference.  <br><br>It should be obvious by now that threats don't intimidate adversaries like Iran.  On the contrary, it makes them more stubborn and determined.  It's a matter of pride, for one thing, and the US has been badly underestimating the role of pridie  when dealing with other countries and cultures.   <br><br>The best way to encourage outright war is to keep talking about it.  Far from  'getting it', I think Clinton fell in line with Bush, mistaking tought talk for actual power.  The whole world knows we coulfd obliterate Iran, including Iran.  Bragging about it only gives Iran more  of an alibi for developing  what they would call  a defense.<br><br>No one I can think of is opposed to being tough, and being ready to act tough.  This argument is about how to act before you have to prove just how tough you are.   <br><br>PS  To describe diplomacy as 'sweet talk' is just too ridiculous to even argue about here..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_03:37:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "runasim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "500853": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>And even if it is, what are you afraid of? What more are these guys gonna do? Toughen up CStanley! We're the big badass USA. We could handle the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and we can handle little old Iran. </i><br>So, if one considers a particular diplomatic move and thinks that it is boneheaded because there's more potential downside than there is any potential gain, then you're saying that not doing that boneheaded thing means we're afraid? <br><br>Come on, Chris- you're better than that. There's no point in arguing \"even if it is\" because 'if it is' as I think it is, then it would be foolish to engage in this exercise. If you think I'm wrong and you believe that our enemies in the Middle East really will look upon us differently if we show we are willing to try that approach, then we will just have to agree to disagree- but this has nothing to do with having courage.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_23:21:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "CStanley", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "499193": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "CStanley,<br>Re: propoganda to sway world sympathy to favor terrorists:<br><br>What is it that sways world opinion?  The perception of injustice, is primary, IMO.<br>When actions and words feed the perception, the propoganda ,is ready-made.<br><br>That's exactily my point about foreign relations and conflict resolution.  <br>Being right is not enough.  You have to outsmart and outmaneuver the adversary.<br>To do that, you have to be able to gauge the opponent's reaction, instead of just preahing from the pulpit of your own convictions.<br><br>Pride plays a huge part in the psychology of nations and cultures.<br>When we disregard the concerns of  the opponent, or when we talk down to them', we trigger pride.  That, more than almost anything else, can lead to irrational and hostile reactions, rather than compliance.   Ergo, if you don't want to trigger  irrational and hostile reactions and want to persuade instead, watch what you do and say.  <br><br>Terrorists can play the victim card most effectively when they are given good cause by indiscriminate harsh treatment, like torture and detention until proven innocent, or until never. .<br><br>A serious attempt at treating adversaries justly, however undermines the propoganda value of claimed victimhood.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_17:34:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "runasim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "498043": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Speaking for myself, not Obama:<br>Judging from the reaction, most of the antipathy is based on 'support for Israel' , and an inability to grasp the notion that support does not directly translate into supporit in only one way:  agree to everything Iaraeli political hawks say and do.<br>It's a twin to the pseufo definition of US patriotism to mean agreeing to everything the sitting government says and does.<br><br>There are ways to be patriotic and ways to  supporit Iseael that actually endanger the US and Israel, respectively.  Just like we would be better off today if more people had been 'unpatriotic' enough to question and debate the wisdom of  invading Iraq, Israel would be better off if we questioned and debated more what, support for Israel should actually consist of.  <br><br>Supporitng Israel in the emotional, rather than analytical, way that we have done so far, has led to a situation now, where we are less able to intercede on Israel's behalf  than ever before and we have been cornered into a situation where we have to contemplate nuclear confrontations.<br><br>One current result is that our hands are tied in Lebanon.  If we made the slightest move to support the Lebanese government,  the immediate effect would be to immediatley embolden  Hezbollah. even further.  How  does that support Israel?<br><br>Being in the corner into which we have painted ourselves weakens our ability  to intercede on Israel's behalf  all across the board., and that's not good for Israel;  it's very dangerous for  Israel.<br><br>Getting back to Obama,  my evaluating him does not depend on these ideologically co-opted definitons of support for Israel and patriotism.  Rather I try to gauge what would best serve US interests and Israel's interests.   I try to think long term, not just in the immediate context of word play used as attack weapons.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-05-20_14:53:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "runasim", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "http://themoderatevoice.com/disqus-blank.html", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "765792", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "2724", "hash": 3154609141404401138}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 765792, "num_posts": 43, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "8e626a1cbe92745e5f4435bb28791555", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=themoderatevoice' +
		'&t=obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://themoderatevoice.disqus.com/obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://themoderatevoice.disqus.com/obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/uploads/forums/2724//avatar92.jpg';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">43</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://themoderatevoice.disqus.com/obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://themoderatevoice.disqus.com/obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://themoderatevoice.disqus.com/obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
									<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You must log into an account in order to comment on The Moderate Voice" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Required:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:765792" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'themoderatevoice',
			't'				: 'obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/765792/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/themoderatevoice/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/themoderatevoice/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}









(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-494964">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-494964" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-494964" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-494964">runasim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-494964" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-494964" class="dsq-comment-message">"Liberals need to learn that talking with a supposed enemy doesn’t always lead to peace"<br>--------------------------------------------------<br><br>As  it\'s unimaginable that any liberal, or anyone at all,  is naive enought to believe that, I can only assume that this is a rhetorical statement , inserted for dramatic effect.<br>Obama himself has repeatedly said that all  options (and I think we all know what those options are)  should be on the table, so I can\'t even fathom where such a notion came from.<br><br>Obama would have to speak for himself regarding  exactly how he plans to  implement  his ideas regarding Iran.   The damage there has already been done, and Obama (or whoever will be the next president)  is not going to have the ooportnity  to srart fresh.  He/she will be entereing in the middle of a fight, not the beginning. .  All he can do is signal  Iran   that he is diffrent, from Bush  and he can only do so by emphasizing the difference.  <br><br>It should be obvious by now that threats don\'t intimidate adversaries like Iran.  On the contrary, it makes them more stubborn and determined.  It\'s a matter of pride, for one thing, and the US has been badly underestimating the role of pridie  when dealing with other countries and cultures.   <br><br>The best way to encourage outright war is to keep talking about it.  Far from  \'getting it\', I think Clinton fell in line with Bush, mistaking tought talk for actual power.  The whole world knows we coulfd obliterate Iran, including Iran.  Bragging about it only gives Iran more  of an alibi for developing  what they would call  a defense.<br><br>No one I can think of is opposed to being tough, and being ready to act tough.  This argument is about how to act before you have to prove just how tough you are.   <br><br>PS  To describe diplomacy as \'sweet talk\' is just too ridiculous to even argue about here..</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-495178">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-495178" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-495178" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-495178">EEllis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-495178" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-495178" class="dsq-comment-message">"As it\'s unimaginable that any liberal, or anyone at all, is naive enought to believe that, I can only assume that this is a rhetorical statement , inserted for dramatic effect."<br><br>And I think that it is unimaginable  that you can belive what you just wrote. Just goes to show doesn\'t it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-495564">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-495564" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-495564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-495564">Neocon</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-495564" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-495564" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama himself has repeatedly said that all options (and I think we all know what those options are) should be on the table, so I can\'t even fathom where such a notion came from.<br><br>The following are ALL from Israeli Papers during the course of the last 6 months.<br><br>Obama has repeatedly stated that he wants to engage in talks with an Iranian regime that incessantly talks of vaporizing Israel and is hell bent on developing nuclear weapons to accomplish this goal. When Hillary Clinton recently threatened to obliterate Iran if it attacked Israel, Obama actually scolded her for "saber rattling."<br><br>So I think this shows that All options is just a metaphor to appease those who think he might be soft.<br><br>Additionally:<br><br>A group of experts collected by the Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz deemed him to be the candidate likely to be least supportive of Israel. He is the candidate most favored by the Arab-American community.  He is endorsed by Hamas.<br><br>This is so important a deal that on Barak Obama\'s own website they posted this:<br><br>Obama\'s camp is well-aware that the Israeli newspaper Haaretz -- in a recurring feature ranking the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates or people who may run on how good they are for Israel -- puts him last on its list.<br><br>In response to this the Obama Campaign has established a blogg in Israel to try and pull the wool over the eyes of the concerned Jewish nation as they have been able to do here in America.<br><br>And we have this:<br><br>Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, has long been recognized by Israeli leaders, including prime ministers, as biased against Israel and is notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state. He was appointed as a primary Obama adviser on the Middle East earlier this year.<br><br>And my favorite one is this in which Barak Obama is speaking of how he is perceived in the Middle East.<br><br>It\'s conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, \'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he\'s not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,\'" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.<br><br>"That\'s a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they\'re not confused about my unyielding support for Israel\'s security," Obama said. <br><br>Notice how he plays up his perceived Muslim ties when it suits him and screams foul when its used against him?<br><br>Moreover, Obama has stated that nobody is suffering more than the Palestinians. Obama is so anti-Israel that a high level Hamas adviser recently said that Hamas supports Obama\'s foreign policy vision.<br><br>I realize no ones listening.  Certainly at this blog.  But my mission continues.   Facts.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-495815">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-495815" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-495815" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-495815">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-495815" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-495815" class="dsq-comment-message">Since Obama\'s staff and surrogates are attempting to do damage control regarding his statements on negotiating without precondition, I can only assume one of two things must be true: either Obama answered that early debate question without having adequately considered the appropriate response, and now knows that he can\'t be seen as flipflopping so he\'s sticking by it even as everyone else around him changes the story- or, his debate response and website position have been crafted to appeal to the far left netroots and he actually has no intention of fulfilling that pledge (he\'ll find some way, of course, to fudge it and appear as though he is meeting without precondition when really there are preconditions, or he\'ll find some excuse for why a meeting isn\'t possible after all.)<br><br>In both cases, of course, that\'s a good thing, if he doesn\'t actually intend to follow through on a disastrous foreign policy that would make Jimmy Carter look like a master of diplomacy. I think there\'s still a very small chance that he really does mean what he says, but I think that\'s very remote (though it still will worry me if he\'s elected.)<br><br>Anyway- great piece, Dennis, and I\'m glad someone is willing to ask the questions instead of just saying "Bush\'s approach has been a disaster so we should do the opposite" (The George Costanza Doctrine) or "We should give Obama a chance" (which apparently means we need to all turn our brains off and stop attempting to question whether or not he has good new ideas.)<br><br>Just to add a bit more to the issues you raised about the faults of both extreme approaches; diplomacy without leverage often leads to stall tactics being employed. That was one of the concerns pre-Iraq invasion, that if we were to have \'let the inspectors do their job\', then Saddam would do what he had always done, and used the time to hide any weapons or weapons programs that he may have had, or as we later learned that he didn\'t have stockpiles he still would have dodged the bullet in that round of inspections and then gone back to planning his next move. It\'s an endless game for some of those players- and the current situation shows that Iran is probably playing the same game in continuing to enrich uranium while it figures out how to restart a weaponization program under the radar.<br><br>Propaganda is also a big downside to negotiations without leverage; by scheduling a summit level meeting, each country is saying it is willing to negotiate. If we\'re willing to \'sit down and talk\' with Iran, the implication there is that we are willing to give some things in order to get other assurances- but if we\'re not willing to give any of the things that Iran would want us to give, then the meeting will fail to produce any results and the propaganda win goes to Iran ("See, we were willing to discuss these things but the US will not negotiate on a single thing that we asked for!") If that\'s going to be the outcome, then agreeing to the meeting in the first place leads to a greater PR disaster than not agreeing to the meeting until those preconditions are met. This is particularly true when some of the things we require of Iran involve their support of terrorist acts, killing of our troops, and threatening the existence of one of our allies. Having a meeting for the sake of having a meeting is obviously going to be seen as doing it from a state of weakness to negotiate for them to stop doing those things- which gives legitimacy not only to the govt that supports terrorism, but also to the terrorist acts themselves.<br><br>Now, those are weaknesses of the extreme pacifist view of negotiating no matter what. On the other extreme, blustering is certainly not helpful and constant brinkmanship (particularly when everyone knows you probably are NOT going to follow through because your military is stretched too thin) quickly takes away the leverage that you have.<br><br>Clearly the right approach is somewhere in the middle, with \'talking\' being effective in some circumstances but not others. It\'s so important to determine what those criteria should be, and how we create leverage- and to examine each candidate to see if he/she understands this and has an idea of how to do it.  Since so much is at stake, wouldn\'t it be far better if we, the voters, could discuss those things without everyone taking it personally when one approach or the other is being criticized? How do we get past the "How dare you call me an appeaser!" or "I am not a warmonger!" nonsense?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-496426">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-496426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-496426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-496426">WagnerSch</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-496426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-496426" class="dsq-comment-message">...and Conservatives need to learn that going to war with your supposed enemies NEVER leads to peace.<br><br>If our current bellicose stance hasn\'t worked (and it hasn\'t), America would be insane not to try a different approach.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-496520">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-496520" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-496520" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-496520">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-496520" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-496520" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>If our current bellicose stance hasn\'t worked (and it hasn\'t), America would be insane not to try a different approach.</i><br><br>But the point is, WHAT OTHER APPROACH? Why can\'t anyone describe how talks with Iran could possibly be constructive, and whether or not we have any leverage to negotiate with them? If we don\'t currently have leverage, how could we get some? And if we don\'t, then how is it not a net negative to hold negotiations that are obviously only going to result in a PR victory for Iran?<br><br>If the answer is, as Obama\'s surrogates are saying, that we get leverage first through "preparation" before holding the high level talks, then I\'d like to know how that is different from the Bush administration\'s approach other than the substitution of the word "preparation" for "preconditions"?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-497576">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-497576" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-497576" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-497576" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-497576" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-497576" class="dsq-comment-message">What exactly is the downside to negotiations? Even without preconditions and preparations? Please explain.<br><br>And let me tell you the real significance of the rightwing\'s use of the Munich Agreement. It means that rightwing sees war between the United States and Iran as inevitable. Does anyone seriously think the Munich Agreement had any serious effect on WW2 one way or the other? Hitler was going to invade Poland, and he was going to take all of Czechoslovakia. War was inevitable.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498043">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498043" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498043" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498043">runasim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498043" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498043" class="dsq-comment-message">Speaking for myself, not Obama:<br>Judging from the reaction, most of the antipathy is based on \'support for Israel\' , and an inability to grasp the notion that support does not directly translate into supporit in only one way:  agree to everything Iaraeli political hawks say and do.<br>It\'s a twin to the pseufo definition of US patriotism to mean agreeing to everything the sitting government says and does.<br><br>There are ways to be patriotic and ways to  supporit Iseael that actually endanger the US and Israel, respectively.  Just like we would be better off today if more people had been \'unpatriotic\' enough to question and debate the wisdom of  invading Iraq, Israel would be better off if we questioned and debated more what, support for Israel should actually consist of.  <br><br>Supporitng Israel in the emotional, rather than analytical, way that we have done so far, has led to a situation now, where we are less able to intercede on Israel\'s behalf  than ever before and we have been cornered into a situation where we have to contemplate nuclear confrontations.<br><br>One current result is that our hands are tied in Lebanon.  If we made the slightest move to support the Lebanese government,  the immediate effect would be to immediatley embolden  Hezbollah. even further.  How  does that support Israel?<br><br>Being in the corner into which we have painted ourselves weakens our ability  to intercede on Israel\'s behalf  all across the board., and that\'s not good for Israel;  it\'s very dangerous for  Israel.<br><br>Getting back to Obama,  my evaluating him does not depend on these ideologically co-opted definitons of support for Israel and patriotism.  Rather I try to gauge what would best serve US interests and Israel\'s interests.   I try to think long term, not just in the immediate context of word play used as attack weapons.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498270">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498270" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498270" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498270">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498270" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498270" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Rather I try to gauge what would best serve US interests and Israel\'s interests. </i>What do you think that would be though? That\'s what I haven\'t heard anyone describe- it\'s all about criticism of our current policy (sometimes legitimate criticism, and sometimes a straw man version which pretends that we currently "refuse to talk to our enemies".<br><br>What specifically can we do to support Israel that isn\'t an \'emotional\' reaction?<br><br>Is it necessary, in your opinion, to apply as much leverage as possible to preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weaponry, or are you one who believes that Iran won\'t do that anyway (wants only nuclear technology for energy use) or that it wants weapons but will only use them for political power in the region and to feel more secure in its own defense, rather than having any aim toward the destruction of Israel?<br><br>Those are the sort of questions that I wish Obama and his supporters would answer.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498394">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-498394" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498394" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>What specifically can we do to support Israel that isn\'t an \'emotional\' reaction?</blockquote><br>Show our support for talks with Hamas (which Israel is already doing *gasp*).<br><br>Ask them to halt the new settlements and seriously consider rolling back existing ones. <br><br>Reexamine their policy toward the West Bank which is looking more and more like a set of Apartheid era bantustans everyday.<br><br>Those are just a few :-D</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498525">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498525" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498525">runasim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498525" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498525" class="dsq-comment-message">Regarding the difference between preconditions and preparation,  again points to what is stupid (IMO, of course)  about how issues are debated in US politics.<br>That the question is even raised reflects an ongoing  and completely erroneous way \'\'talking\' and \'negotiations\' are represented by one sector of the public.   Neither entails capitulation, any more than saying \'good morning\' to a neighbor means you\'ll be handing over your house to him in the afternoon. <br><br>Contact in some form, however, is necessary in order to use the art of persuasion.  A good example is the Cuban missile crises, when JFK  continued  the art of persuasion, by written word, all during and up to the final  resolution. of the crisis.  Had he not \'talked\' to Kruschev by letter,  we might not be around to argue the finer points of foreign relations.  <br><br>Preparation is a must, a given, when adversaries  communicate in any way.or at any level.  <br>Preconditions are a much more risky tool.  We set preconditions to talking to Iran, and Iran said \'no, thanks\'. Again, going back to the Cuban missile crises,  had JFk set preconditions to corresponding with the USSR, applying persuasion would not be possible, and KA-BOOM.  Is anyone unhappy that a nuclear war was averted and by lalking we persuaded  the USSR to back off?<br>Talking definitely did nto mean capitualation in that case. Neither did  persuasion exclude  the showcased military option, the \'on the table\' part of stated positions.<br>That\'s what constitutes a full array of foreign relations tools:  talking, while the military option is plainly present.  <br><br>The either/or appraoch means cutting off 50% of resouces.  <br><br><br>\'</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498629">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498629" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498629" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498629">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498629" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498629" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Again, going back to the Cuban missile crises, had JFk set preconditions to corresponding with the USSR, applying persuasion would not be possible, and KA-BOOM.</i><br><br>The only persuasion involved was that Kennedy found a way to give in to Kruschev\'s demand, removing missiles from Turkey, while saving face by insisting that this part of the deal be kept secret. That was a good thing, but that is not "open diplomacy" and it is not persuasion. It\'s finding a way to make the deal in a way that doesn\'t harm one\'s own interests, which sometimes means making the deals behind closed doors and in non-public channels, so that the opponent doesn\'t score a propaganda victory.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498748">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498748" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498748">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498748" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498748" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris, you are so far to the left that I don\'t think I can debate these issues with you- we just don\'t see things the same way at all. And you apparently criticize Obama from the left while I\'m critical of him from the other direction, so it\'s hard to have a real discussion on merits or shortcomings of his policies that way.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498754">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498754" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498754" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-498754" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498754" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498754" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>It\'s finding a way to make the deal in a way that doesn\'t harm one\'s own interests, which sometimes means making the deals behind closed doors and in non-public channels, so that the opponent doesn\'t score a propaganda victory.</blockquote><br><br>So you\'re not really worried about appeasement but propaganda victories? Or, propaganda victories = appeasement?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498824">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498824" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498824" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498824">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498824" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498824" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Does anyone seriously think the Munich Agreement had any serious effect on WW2 one way or the other? Hitler was going to invade Poland, and he was going to take all of Czechoslovakia. War was inevitable.</i>Actually, I think you\'d be hard pressed to find anyone who DOESN\'T think that- or at least that the war could have been won much more quickly and with less bloodshed if the capitulation hadn\'t occurred. I mean think about what you are saying here- war was inevitable. If that\'s the case, you don\'t see a problem with strengthening the hand of the aggressor before you join in the effort to defeat him??<br><br>And that\'s the point- sometimes war really is inevitable, unless the would be agressor sees that there\'s enough resolve on the part of the allies of the nation that they seek to conquer that they calculate that they can\'t win and so they back down. Look at Korea as an example- Truman\'s administration listed the nations they\'d support militarily against aggression and left Korea off the list, which was quickly jumped upon as an opportunity for N. Korea to attempt to annex the south. If the US publicly criticizes Israel or signals weakness in our resolve to come to her defense, a similar dynamic is likely to occur.<br><br>So Chris, no matter what you feel about those Israeli policies, and I think there is room for criticism, there\'s a difference between private discussions we might have with Israel and publicly selling them down the river.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498843">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498843" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498843" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498843">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498843" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498843" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>So you\'re not really worried about appeasement but propaganda victories? Or, propaganda victories = appeasement? </i>I\'d say that handing the opponent a propaganda victory is one form of appeasement, yes. Particularly in today\'s geopolitical climate, where world opinion is so important- and voicing sympathy with the complaints of the terrorists and terrorist supporting states as well as publicly doing a mea culpa over the US\'s \'cowboy diplomacy\' do in effect hand over those propaganda victories.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498867">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498867" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498867" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498867">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498867" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498867" class="dsq-comment-message">Look at it this way, Chris- is there any doubt that getting world opinion on the side of the terrorists is the coin of the realm these days? And if so, then how is that propaganda victory different than scoring a land concession as in Munich?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498882">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498882" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498882" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-498882" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498882" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498882" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>If that\'s the case, you don\'t see a problem with strengthening the hand of the aggressor before you join in the effort to defeat him??</blockquote><br>That\'s hardly my point.<br><br>If you equate *any* negotiation with appeasement then you abandon anything but a sliver of hope for a diplomatic path to peace.<br><br>Let me tell you what would really be appeasement. Offering to help them dismantle Israel in return for their nuclear program. Offering to let them annex Iraq in return for their nuclear program. Giving them Florida for their nuclear program.<br><br>As opposed to say ending certain sanctions in return for their nuclear program, or helping them generate other sources of energy. <br><br>See the difference?<br><br><blockquote>So Chris, no matter what you feel about those Israeli policies, and I think there is room for criticism, there\'s a difference between private discussions we might have with Israel and publicly selling them down the river.</blockquote><br>How would we be selling them down the river by negotiating with Iran publicly? Wouldn\'t we have to be actually, you know, trading something valuable of Israels to Iran for that to be the case?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498896">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498896" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498896" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-498896" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498896" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498896" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>Look at it this way, Chris- is there any doubt that getting world opinion on the side of the terrorists is the coin of the realm these days? And if so, then how is that propaganda victory different than scoring a land concession as in Munich?</blockquote><br><br>Yes, I think there are more important things to worry about than propaganda victories. How much of the world is sympathetic to "the terrorists" anyways?<br><br>=====<br>I\'m heading home, so I won\'t be on for a while. But it\'s been a pleasure to argue with you CStanley, as usual.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-498945">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-498945" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-498945" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-498945">runasim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-498945" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-498945" class="dsq-comment-message">CStanley,<br>"What specifically can we do to support Israel that isn\'t an \'emotional\' reaction?"<br><br>The ultimate goal, would be to regain  a position of trrustwrothiness among Israel\'s neighbors.  That\'s important in order to be able to pressure them into doing their part  to resolve the conflict(s) instead of just sitting back pointing fingers at Israel and the US.  <br><br>Why aren\'t the \'moderate\' Arab nations busy helping Palestinians  develop economically, for example?   We can\'t pressure them, becasue anything the US says is immediatley suspected  of  being  a ploy to enhance Israel\'s position and, diminish theirs. <br><br>One immediate step toward reaching that goal would be to watch what we say how we say it, and what we don\'t say.  Words can create powerful perceptions.<br><br>It is a problem, when the humanitarian US,, busy promoting democracy,, never has one word  of sympathy for the cilivians dying in Gaza.  Dead children are dead children,  no matter what political party rules them.  Choosing words carefully can eliminate all political connotations and at the same time express  a common humanity.    Even some Jews recognize this, and there have been attempts by mourning mothers in Israel to reach out ot mourning mothers in Gaza.   It\'s not easy, and nothing is solved by the odd, sporadic gesture.  However, the act of reaching out, suffering human to suffering human, reframes the picture.  Similarly, we could realign the picture of the US in the ME.<br><br>When the Arabs presened their iproposal for a setlement, why was there no recognition of the effortt, even if it was undoable?  Words matter.<br><br>Why have we not talked about the cluster bombs left in Lebanon?<br>Why is nothing said about the fact that God seems to have promised the same land to two different peoples?<br><br>These are complicated issues, and it may well be that Israel is right on them.<br>The fact that these are taboo subjects in US politics, however, sends only one message to Israel\'s neighbors:  The US  has a closed mind when it comes to their oncerns.  The result is that  the US is shut out of the avenues of influence and persuasion. through which it could support Israel.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-499193">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-499193" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-499193" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-499193">runasim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-499193" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-499193" class="dsq-comment-message">CStanley,<br>Re: propoganda to sway world sympathy to favor terrorists:<br><br>What is it that sways world opinion?  The perception of injustice, is primary, IMO.<br>When actions and words feed the perception, the propoganda ,is ready-made.<br><br>That\'s exactily my point about foreign relations and conflict resolution.  <br>Being right is not enough.  You have to outsmart and outmaneuver the adversary.<br>To do that, you have to be able to gauge the opponent\'s reaction, instead of just preahing from the pulpit of your own convictions.<br><br>Pride plays a huge part in the psychology of nations and cultures.<br>When we disregard the concerns of  the opponent, or when we talk down to them\', we trigger pride.  That, more than almost anything else, can lead to irrational and hostile reactions, rather than compliance.   Ergo, if you don\'t want to trigger  irrational and hostile reactions and want to persuade instead, watch what you do and say.  <br><br>Terrorists can play the victim card most effectively when they are given good cause by indiscriminate harsh treatment, like torture and detention until proven innocent, or until never. .<br><br>A serious attempt at treating adversaries justly, however undermines the propoganda value of claimed victimhood.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-499332">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-499332" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-499332" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-499332">runasim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-499332" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-499332" class="dsq-comment-message">CStanley,<br>The only persuasion involved was that Kennedy found a way to give in to Kruschev\'s demand, removing missiles from Turkey, while saving face by insisting that this part of the deal be kept secret. -<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Are you saying that a nuclear war would have been the better result, so that  those who might object  could save some abstract principle?  Just how many people have to die for the sake of a cut-\'in\'-stone principke that benefits no living soul?<br><br>How have we suffered, btw, by removing a few missiles from Turkey?  How did that, in any way, impinge on subsequent US interests?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-499532">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-499532" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-499532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-499532">runasim</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-499532" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-499532" class="dsq-comment-message">Cstanley,<br>"If the US publicly criticizes Israel or signals weakness in our resolve to come to her defense,..."<br>----------------------------------<br><br>That is the \' if you don\'t support he war, then you are a traitor\'  argument.<br>It\'s this  either/or phraseology that repeatedly lead us into blind alleys with no escape.<br><br>We can chew gum and walk at the same time,<br><br>Let me ask the oppostie question.   What is leading to decreased support for Israel in places like Europe?  It\'s the perception that they are obligated to support Israel, regardless of its policies, even to the point of sacrificing their own self interests.  .I think self-interest is bound to trump any other considerations in the long run. <br>To truly support Israel, then,  that perception has to be reversed.<br>No withdrawal of support at all is required, but a re-alignment of how these problemts are discussed is.<br><br>We could, for example, couple  discussing Israel\'s policies with  discussing the more questionable policies of its neighbors.   This would  put everything  in a regional framework, instead of keeping  it as Israel-aginst-the-world situation, where everyone has to choose sides.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-499977">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-499977" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-499977" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-499977">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-499977" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-499977" class="dsq-comment-message">Runasim- let me dispense with the Cuban missile crisis comment first. Where did I say that the result wasn\'t the best possible one under the circumstances? I actually said precisely the opposite- that Kennedy did what he had to do. My comment about it was just to point out that you are using it as an example of something that it is not an example of.<br><i>Why aren\'t the \'moderate\' Arab nations busy helping Palestinians develop economically, for example? We can\'t pressure them, becasue anything the US says is immediatley suspected of being a ploy to enhance Israel\'s position and, diminish theirs. </i><br>The problem as I see it here is that you assume there is anything that the US could say which would change the opinion in the Arab world. I don\'t think there really was EVER a time when that was true, and even if I concede that sometimes our actions and words have made that situation worse, that\'s still the reality that we have to deal with and I sincerely believe that any attempt to \'speak softly\' now will only be interpreted as weakness, not a show of good faith.<br><br>As a rationale for my belief, I noted in another blog comment elsewhere today that when we finally had an opportunity to read the internal communications of the USSR government during the Cold War, it was revealed that although things weren\'t black and white (USSR wasn\'t strictly acting out of imperialism, but was indeed sometimes reacting to their own perception of threat from US,) it was also the case that their leaders would not have taken any action on our part as a show of good faith in threat reduction. They would have exploited any such moves as weaknesses on our part. I see no reason to assume otherwise about those who oppose us today.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-499994">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-499994" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-499994" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-499994">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-499994" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-499994" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>Why aren\'t the \'moderate\' Arab nations busy helping Palestinians develop economically, for example? </i> Because their leaders have chosen instead to keep picking at this scab since it serves as a useful scapegoat to distract from their own inadequacies.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-500497">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-500497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-500497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-500497" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-500497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-500497" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>I sincerely believe that any attempt to \'speak softly\' now will only be interpreted as weakness, not a show of good faith.</blockquote><br>And even if it is, what are you afraid of? What more are these guys gonna do? Toughen up CStanley! We\'re the big badass USA. We could handle the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and we can handle little old Iran.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-500506">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-500506" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-500506" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-500506" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-500506" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-500506" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>50 years of progressive rule and the way things are shaping up in Europe and Israel will once again be homeless.</blockquote><br>Is there any way we can bring you down from the mountain of hyperbole?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-500853">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-500853" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-500853" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-500853">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-500853" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-500853" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>And even if it is, what are you afraid of? What more are these guys gonna do? Toughen up CStanley! We\'re the big badass USA. We could handle the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and we can handle little old Iran. </i><br>So, if one considers a particular diplomatic move and thinks that it is boneheaded because there\'s more potential downside than there is any potential gain, then you\'re saying that not doing that boneheaded thing means we\'re afraid? <br><br>Come on, Chris- you\'re better than that. There\'s no point in arguing "even if it is" because \'if it is\' as I think it is, then it would be foolish to engage in this exercise. If you think I\'m wrong and you believe that our enemies in the Middle East really will look upon us differently if we show we are willing to try that approach, then we will just have to agree to disagree- but this has nothing to do with having courage.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-501148">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-501148" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-501148" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-501148" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-501148" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-501148" class="dsq-comment-message">CStanley,<br>You\'re unable to articulate in concrete terms what the potential downside would be to negotiations. I\'ve heard a lot about nebulous words like \'propaganda victory,\' and \'sign of weakness\' but little in the way of consequences that mean anything outside of the realm of pride.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-501297">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-501297" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-501297" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-501297">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-501297" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-501297" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, Chris, considering that you\'ve already said that you don\'t consider giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler to be an error of significance, I\'m going to assume that I can\'t persuade you that giving propaganda victories is significant even though I think history supports my view that both are so.<br><br>Best quick example I can think of where a president naively approached a summit meeting and came out with egg on his face would be Kennedy, 1961, Vienna summit. As far as I know, most historians view that meeting as an utter failure (certainly there are accounts that have Kennedy himself reporting it as such) and many see a connection between Bay of Pigs, Vienna Summit, and the subsequent emboldening that led Kruschev to begin building missiles in Cuba. So as I\'ve asked elsewhere- when Obama compares himself to Kennedy, is he saying he\'ll be like the neophyte Kennedy or the one who emerged after realizing that talking without having leverage could bring us to the brink of war?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-502170">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-502170" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-502170" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-502170" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-502170" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-502170" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>Well, Chris, considering that you\'ve already said that you don\'t consider giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler to be an error of significance...</blockquote><br>Oh come now... twisting my words like that is beneath you and unnecessary. I can play that game too.<br><br><i>Well, CStanley, given that you\'ve already said you\'d rather see a nuclear war than negotiations that could hand an adversary a PR victory, I don\'t know how I can convince you of the value of human life.</i></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-502222">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-502222" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-502222" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-502222">Neocon</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-502222" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-502222" class="dsq-comment-message">Hyperbole...............A figure of speech in which exageragion is used for emphasis.<br><br>Everyone who follows politics knows that the far left which has repackaged themselves as progressives have always had a problem with Israel.  You hear it day in and day out.  You can see it in your writings.  The minute I posted about Sadat you had to throw out the Assassination of Begin and accuse me of intellectual dishonesty.  <br><br>The far left has always had social agendas in mind.  They want America to look like Europe with health care for all.  35 hour work weeks, government guarantees for everything they do from the time they get up in the morning till they go to bed at night.<br><br>Israel is a symbol to them.  It is the reason we fight in the middle east.  It is the reason we have a big military.  It is these reasons that we do not have health care and 35 hour work weeks and we do not have nirvana.  <br><br>So no.  There is no exxageration in my mind when I say given the predisposition of the Europeans toward Israel.  Given they put them on boats and told them to go away in 1948.  Given that they are Europes "Slavery Issue"  (you know that thing a country or a continent is most embarrassed about having in their past) Given that the only thing that has kept them from utterly abandoning Israel was their need to have close relationships to the United States with the USSR staring across barbed wire fences with 2 million soldiers just itching to eat them alive.<br><br>Now the USSR is gone.  And now there is no reason to hold the USA near and dear.  There is no evil empire to provide the cement that bonds the bricks of this realtionship together.  Their world is filling with Muslims as they have opened their doors to them because of serious shorfalls in birthrates in Europe due to several factors that I will not go into now.<br><br>The dynamics of what is transpiring in this world is simple.  Israels peaceful survival depends upon America.  Every other nation on earth has abandoned her a long time ago.  Europe has never been her friend and has never really pretended to be her friend since the 50\'s.<br><br>And now we have Barak Obama coming to power in America.  Being pushed to the gates of Babylon by the far left progressives and their anti Israel stance.  His rating by Israeli newspapers puts him at the bottom of the list of those candidates least likely to support Israel.  His chief middle east advisor has pushed Israel unmercifully for large concessions.<br><br>Appeasement is in the air.  Its just repackaged my friend.  Instead of the USA giving away Israel, Barak Obama is going to ask Israel to give herself away.  The results are the same.<br><br>If the progressive left (NOT DEMOCRATS) were in power for 50 years and if Europe continues on doing what they are doing today then there is no doubt in my mind that Israel would once again be homeless.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-502315">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-502315" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-502315" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-502315">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-502315" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-502315" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris, I honestly didn\'t think I was twisting your words, though I admit to phrasing it with a sarcastic tone. If you think that I mischaracterized you then I\'ll have to explain further what you meant by your earlier statement:<br><i>Does anyone seriously think the Munich Agreement had any serious effect on WW2 one way or the other? Hitler was going to invade Poland, and he was going to take all of Czechoslovakia. War was inevitable.</i><br>How is not having "any serious effect" different from my paraphrase "&lt;not&gt; an error of significance?"<br><br>And the funny thing is that what you wrote to show an example of twisting my words was pretty much what runasim already did, or didn\'t you notice?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-502785">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-502785" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-502785" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-502785" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-502785" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-502785" class="dsq-comment-message">CStanley,<br>Allow me to clarify then. I think ceding part of Czechoslovakia was a mistake. Among other things, Czechoslovakia was a sovereign nation and it wasn\'t Neville Chamberlain\'s to give away. <br><br>However, while ceding part of Czechoslovakia was a mistake, I still don\'t think it had any significant effect on the subsequent war. I don\'t think Hitler was "emboldened" by Chamberlain or anything like that. War was inevitable. The fall of the entirety of Czechoslovakia was probably inevitable too. <br><br>The reason I brought it up at all was because I find the Republican\'s rhetorical use of the Munich agreement as being dishonest by reason of incompleteness. This is how an honest Munich agreement argument would go:<br><br><b>War between the United States and Iran is inescapable. Diplomacy of any kind will never alleviate the tension between our two nations.</b><br><br>That\'s the only way it works, unless you honestly think that Obama is going to cede something significant to Iran. And no, a propaganda victory doesn\'t count.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-502886">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-502886" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-502886" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-502886" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-502886" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-502886" class="dsq-comment-message"><blockquote>The minute I posted about Sadat you had to throw out the Assassination of Begin and accuse me of intellectual dishonesty.</blockquote><br>Because it was true :-) There are implacable nuts on both sides.<br><br><blockquote>Israel is a symbol to them. It is the reason we fight in the middle east. It is the reason we have a big military. It is these reasons that we do not have health care and 35 hour work weeks and we do not have nirvana.</blockquote><br>There\'s you climbing that mountain again...<br><br><blockquote>So no. There is no exxageration in my mind when I say given the predisposition of the Europeans toward Israel. Given they put them on boats and told them to go away in 1948.</blockquote><br>Uhh... remember how our government wouldn\'t let them come to the United States either?<br><br>Ben-Gurion was okay with that anyways, "If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel." - 1938<br><br><blockquote>Their world is filling with Muslims as they have opened their doors to them because of serious shorfalls in birthrates in Europe due to several factors that I will not go into now.</blockquote><br>O noes!<br><br><blockquote>Israels peaceful survival depends upon America.</blockquote><br>I thought it was assured by their secret nuclear arsenal?<br><br><blockquote>And now we have Barak Obama coming to power in America. Being pushed to the gates of Babylon by the far left progressives and their anti Israel stance. His rating by Israeli newspapers puts him at the bottom of the list of those candidates least likely to support Israel. His chief middle east advisor has pushed Israel unmercifully for large concessions.</blockquote><br>The air must be thin at the top of the mountain :-)<br><br>You realize that Jews in America overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party and Barack Obama in a matchup with McCain?<br><br><blockquote>Appeasement is in the air. Its just repackaged my friend. Instead of the USA giving away Israel, Barak Obama is going to ask Israel to give herself away. The results are the same.</blockquote><br>Is this before or after he gives reparations to African Americans? He\'ll probably sign that one into law while sitting in a mosque!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-503598">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-503598" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-503598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-503598">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-503598" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-503598" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>And no, a propaganda victory doesn\'t count.</i><br><br>By your measure it doesn\'t. Let me try one more way to get you to see why it does.<br><br>If Iran scores a propaganda victory, several things happen.<br><br>One, the neutering of the UN Security Council is almost complete (not that that hasn\'t already transpired, see <i>Hussein, Saddam</i>.) The idea that Iran has to suspend enrichment isn\'t just a precondition that the US has placed on them, it\'s the result of the SC resolution. Apparently a US president isn\'t supposed to act unilaterally in defiance of the SC, unless he\'s doing so in a way that weakens the response.<br><br>Second, the result of legitimizing Ahmedinejad makes is much less likely that the internal opposition to him from more moderate leaders will oust him. I don\'t know if you are one who refuses to read anything by Taheri but he\'s got an article about how this is already manifesting itself, since some of the leaders are deciding to play a waiting game with the US election. That\'s actually one of the main points of the current strategy- that diplomatic isolation coupled with economic sanctions can force Iran to moderate, because their isolated position isn\'t sustainable.<br><br>And for the third part, what you seem to ignore is that the US is part of the Quartet negotiating for a peaceful settlement of the two state map for Israel and Palestine. So in that regard, if we fail to support Israel\'s interests for her own existence by legitimizing a leader who has stated a desire to obliterate her, then we are doing exactly what you\'ve said Chamberlain did to Czechoslovakia- giving away what isn\'t ours to give. Obviously we wouldn\'t be doing it directly- no one is claiming that Obama\'s planning to sign an agreement saying that Israel no longer exists and the Palestinians are the rightful inhabitants of that entire territory. But in effect what Chamberlain did was assure Germany that the Allies wouldn\'t defend that territory that he wanted to take-and that\'s the exact same effect of going to Iran and allowing them to believe that we don\'t have the resolve to defend Israeli territory.<br><br>And sorry, but I reject your assertion that WWII was inevitable. Even if it was, there\'s certainly reason to believe it would have been a much more limited conflict if the Allies had acted with resolve instead of an attempt to placate Hitler. But the basic premise of those of us who support a harder line diplomacy is that such approaches work better to prevent war than a softer approach does, at least in situations where you face a determined aggressor. The way I see it, the real question is whether the aggressive motivations are really there or not; currently many conservatives see that motivation in Ahmadinejad but not necessarily in the more moderate mullahs of Iran. So forcing Iran to choose between the aggressive and the more acceptable course for regional stability is based on making the mullahs see that Ahmad\'s way is a dead end.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-503719">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-503719" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-503719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-503719">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-503719" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-503719" class="dsq-comment-message">Also, Chris, you might want to note that everyone from Bill Richardson to Chris Dodd to Joe Biden to Susan Rice is attempting to back off of Obama\'s stated position, so maybe, just maybe, the rest of the world really does think it\'s naive and a bit dangerous to pledge to talk mano-a-mano with leaders of countries that support terrorism and have nuclear aims, without precondition?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-504172">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-504172" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-504172" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-504172" href="http://www.whyweworry.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ChrisWWW</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-504172" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-504172" class="dsq-comment-message">CStanley,<br>I didn\'t note that. Link me!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-504474">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-504474" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-504474" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-504474">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-504474" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-504474" class="dsq-comment-message">Biden\'s is the most cutting, so I\'ll give you that one first:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IRYCHy3y4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IRYCHy3y4</a><br><br>Here\'s Rice dialing down on the idea that it would be Ahmad. specificallly that Obama would meet with (yet Obama did at least one time say that he\'d meet with Ahmad.):<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xj82Zuc0Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xj82Zuc0Y</a><br><br>You\'ll have to google for the others, I\'ve gotta run...</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-505327">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-505327" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-505327" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-505327" href="http://dotpoli.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MsSwin</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-505327" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-505327" class="dsq-comment-message">"Appeasers" who have caught hell from the far right:<br><br>John F. Kennedy for promising not to invade Cuba if missiles were withdrawn by Russia<br><br>Dwight D. Eisenhower for inviting Khrushchev to the United States<br><br>Ronald Reagan for reaching arms control agreement with Gorbachev<br><br>Obama for even suggeting talking with our foes<br><br>"Appeasers" who have not caught hell from the far right:<br><br>George W. Bush for talking and negotiating with Libya, North Korea and Iran</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-505781">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-505781" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-505781" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-505781">Neocon</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-505781" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-505781" class="dsq-comment-message">So Chris then we have your assurance and agreement that Israel is safe, must be protected and that no further concessions on their part is necessary.<br><br>Further that Barak Obama will not demand that Israel give up anything but will in fact bargain with Hamas and everyone else who wants to destroy Israel with an iron fist because "Israel\'s security" is first and foremost.<br><br>I am glad to know that you favor those things.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-510441">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-510441" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-510441" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-510441">CStanley</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-510441" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-510441" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t know if Chris or anyone else is still checking in here, but I just came across this:<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/opinion/22thrall.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/opinion/22thr...</a><br><br>I don\'t know who these authors are but they\'re channelling me! Maybe they read my blog comments and decided to write an op-ed with my thesis. LOL</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-500096">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-500096" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-500096" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-500096">Neocon</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-500096" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-500096" class="dsq-comment-message">We could, for example, couple discussing Israel\'s policies with discussing the more questionable policies of its neighbors. <br>  <br>Linkage does not work.  <br><br> Linkage is what the progressives are demanding of the Middle east.  50 years of progressive rule and the way things are shaping up in Europe and Israel will once again be homeless.<br><br>They have found a champion in Barak Obama.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
';

(function() {
	
	





Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=themoderatevoice&t=obama8217s_8220appeasement8221_and_diplomacy&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = '8e626a1cbe92745e5f4435bb28791555';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

// Global event handler for narcissus.
if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
	var g = Dsq.Utils.ie ? document : window;
	Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(g, 'keydown', function(event) {
		// Handle "enter" key on input for post box.
		if ((event.keyCode || event.which) == 13) {
			var target = Dsq.Utils.ie ? event.srcElement : event.target;
			// For Safari bug, detect text node.
			if (target.nodeType == 3) {
				target = target.parentNode;
			}

			if (target.nodeName == 'INPUT' &&
				target.parentNode.className == 'dsq-input-wrapper') {
				var postId = Dsq.Utils.extractId(target);
				Dsq.Templates.postComment(postId, this, false);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




