To do otherwise, as Gregory revealingly explained, "is not their role."- Glenn

Black is white and pigs do fly when the pundits tell us it is so. It seems it is very much their roll, Mr. Gregorian MTP accolade.

Gregory's appointment- another inexhaustible example of politically correct indoctrination of viewing the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in proper focus.

Gregory, Russet, Crystal, and all neo-con, philosophical enablers in the MSM work daily to promote the ancient tension that says non-Jews everywhere who demand their rights are a threat and less equal than "God's chosen".

The above statements are not anti-semitic dribble. Rather, it's only asking for a rational approach to the land/economic rights and struggle without the underlying appeal to theocratic dogma. Without that maybe we can determine whom should be throwing rockets at whom.

I was by no means saying Glenn was a Gregorian MTP accolade.

That was a criticism reserved for David Gregory who chants what Glenn has illustrated in the blog.

It seems it is very much their roll, Mr. Gregorian MTP accolade.- behindthecurtain

My hasty comments caused my confusion with two words- "accolade" and "acolyte".

It is more accurate to describe such behavior from MTP's new appointee as his being an "acolyte", but indeed he has also been a recipient of that accolade (knighting) within the exalted privileges of Sunday morning punditry distortions.

How differently would we exert and model respectable foreign policy if our leaders (are you listening Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Hoyer,...?)read and respected the eloquent words of Founders such as Washington that Glenn cited.

We just don't have or want the depth of history-lessons-learned to decipher the complexities- should powerful nations create the current imbalances of economic/military adventure for such self-centered and self-interested purposes at the expense of so many people?

"...a foreign army invaded and began occupying Israel for a few years,..."- cestmoi123

It's vital, apparent and accepted that what we do by invading/occupying Africa, South America, Asia, Antarctica, and native North America while leaving the trash of economic and military destruction (recent reference to Iraq and Afghanistan as pertinent examples) behind us, is of course our god-given right of liberty for all, don't you see?

While our preeminent and prominent bases of operation and economic aid to allies (Israel, for one) mount, we in America see this vision encapsulated in a sincere theology that trumps all rational perspective.

"Israel isn't at war with women and children and you should be honest enough not to imply otherwise." - shooter

Yes, that works well for promoting peaceful resolutions- convince the enemy that we always can wage justified conflagration if we believe our intentions are not to hurt the poor children and old people.

The very effectiveness of winning over one's enemies is to wage an indirect infliction of cruelty upon the civilians.

Pay attention to results and not Defense Department press conferences/"statistics". It is comforting to think we don't like killing the innocents, but we, Israel and other power-players know there is no precise or responsible alternative to fighting our battles, unless we lie to convince the war-first-choice perpetrators.

It might be cynical to posit the reality of recent incursions like Lebanon 2006 in the ugly picture of- oops we're killing a lot of plain people here, but it's a killing game, and I for one detest and cannot frame it to justify or suit the apologists.

"But seriously, here is what I propose."- hawkpsd

Where are the sarcasm police when you need them?

Every regime's history of established torture practices from Iran to Liberia are now enshrined- America's hidden and transparent, government-backed orgy of hypocrisy the past 7 years- now other nations feel exonerated by their own depravity.

US policy sates we are abhorred by nations that destroy the minds and bodies of their perceived enemies. What we are really repulsed by is the ugly cruelty we see reflected back at us.

"The torture which Taylor, Jr. was accused of ordering occurred during a brutal civil war."

We've heard the apologists for all sorts of justified-war agendas tell us if we war- we can commit anything to accomplish our goal. We cry war- we decide. It's that simple. It's simple because it appeals to any low-brow, knuckle dragging, hormonal-based intelligence deficiency.

How very historically typical for America and all other self-deluding "superior" sovereigns.

Who allowed one of the foxes into the hen house?

From Democracy Now, January 6, 2005-

"“When Alberto Gonzales takes his seat before the Senate Judiciary Committee today for hearings to confirm whether he will become attorney general of the United States, Americans will bid farewell to that comforting story line. The senators are likely to give full legitimacy to a path that the Bush administration set the country on more than three years ago, a path that has transformed the United States from a country that condemned torture and forbade its use to one that practices torture routinely. Through a process of redefinition largely overseen by Mr. Gonzales himself, a practice that was once a clear and abhorrent violation of the law has become in effect the law of the land.”

* * Mark Danner*, New Yorker staff writer and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is also the author of the new book “Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror.”

He was confirmed on February 3, 2005.

Biden and Obama voted Nay.

Can anyone who had watched 5 minutes or more of those hearings believe the President's attorney and friend would not only fulfill the AG office as a law-first advocate or promote the spirit and rule of law for the good of the country and not GWB?

We knew then, as we know now, none of the top movers and shakers in this Administration care about what is right. They care about twisting the truth or as Gonsales likes to say-

"I have not conducted a search" or typically- I'll have to search my notes/memos and get back to you."