Letters to the Editor
Chris Sinnard
Published Letters: 1157 Editor's Choice: 7
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But he DOESN'T run on an "anti-war" platform
[Read the article: The "Rezko" game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He runs on, like you said, a nuanced platform that really isn't antiwar at all but likes to pretend it is. It is pro-"good wars" , i.e. His and the Democrats' Future Humanitarian Interventions (wars).
Anti-War, i.e. Against "George Bush's Stupid Wars" but keep the bases (even though he was ballsy enough to actually throw a one line mention about bases in Iraq during the last "debate". Talk about scary stuff), Pro-War everywhere else.
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Calling for Obama to "Come Clean" on NPR this morning, and Bill Donahue was on Colbert last night re: Hagee
[Read the article: The "Rezko" game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looks the press wants to perform an Inquisition with Obama in order to get to the bottom of the Rezko thing in order to decide if Obama should be excommunicated or not. There were red robed journalists on the Dianae Rhem show on NPR this morning talking about how "If Obama was really into transparency he would sit down with us, put it all out there, get to the bottom of it, figure out when he stopped being a sleazy wife beater, etc."
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Yeah, "Bush" sent the troops into Iraq....
[Read the article: The "Rezko" game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Hillary" will send them into Iran.
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It's really never any more complicated than that.
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's foreign policy "principles"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It really isn't, is it?
The only ones fooled into believing that there's some transcendent moral principles involved are the Fred Hiatts, David Ignatiuses, their pundit-colleagues, and the shrinking band of Bush followers.
Not fooled for now, at least until Boobus Americanus is fully mesmerized by Obama's silver tongue. With their "patriotism tanks" topped off, the herd of True Believers will be ready to show the world that US Interventionism really is Moral and Well Intentioned, and isn't all about profits for GE and Blackwater, suffering and torture like it is under BushCo. But the Bush followers will be there singing a different toon. Wagging their fingers and pointing out the "immorality" of The Obama Wars, nation building, policing the world, and all the other stuff young Bush bitched about before he got his finger on the button. Around the same time "conservatives" will magically rediscover their "limited Government roots", coincidently when the "other team" or "bad guys" are sitting on their throne and using all the unconstitutional powers that they fought so hard for against the pacifists, the Isololationist Cowards, and the terrorist enabling America haters, who will be using those powers "for bad" of course (after all, they hate America). The conservatives are the ones who deserve to use all the police state powers they undermined their own rights for, not the "other guys". I mean, the "other guys" could use their newfound powers against the Troops or against fellow Conservative Patriots!
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It's not about Columbia, or Equador, or Hugo Chavez. Who cares about them? really? WHO CARES?
[Read the article: Fred Hiatt's foreign policy "principles"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is about what our leaders say and do in our name. It's not about Columbia, or Ecuador, or scary ol' Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, it is the ridiculous hypocrisy of our Interventionist Foreign Policy and the perverted world of secrecy it operates in.
But it doesn't exist, because the media that is part of it says it doesn't. It is like "Collateral Damage".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%2C_Truth_%26_Politics
It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.
I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self-love. It's a winner. Listen to all American presidents on television say the words, 'the American people', as in the sentence, 'I say to the American people it is time to pray and to defend the rights of the American people and I ask the American people to trust their president in the action he is about to take on behalf of the American people.'
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Secrets secrets are no fun, secrets secrets hurt someone
[Read the article: Shocking new revelation: Unchecked government powers get abused]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even little kids get it, too bad adults forget it.
Who would have known? Probably the secrecy obsessed death cult frat brothers of our leaders.
Why should we be surprised that the elites spy on us when they are groomed from a young age to believe that one's ability to keep secrets is a virtue to be admired? Who would have ever thought that telling your hooded frat brothers all of your secrets while you stand there naked, holding a skull or some kind of macabre fetish while masturbating into a coffin, would lead to an abuse of secrecy privileges when said masturbater is in a position of power?
This bullshit goes back thousands of years, i.e. "[Secret] Knowledge is Power". This is just the modern version of the same old "Secrecy is Awesome" bullshit.
But secrets are at the base of our current system just as much as greed. In fact, secrecy is worse because it enables all the rest (e.g. telling lies to feed greed). Perhaps that is why the founding fathers didn't put the CIA into the Constitution? But without secrets Irvin Kristol and his merry band of neocons couldn't use their "Tiered Truths" paradigm, a major cornerstone of neocon thought, in order to tell their Noble Lies.
The only way to address the problem is through transparency. It appears to be much easier telling Noble Lies and fearmongering when secrecy is on your side, along with a corrupt Government to enforce it.
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@ConservativeSlayer
[Read the article: Shocking new revelation: Unchecked government powers get abused]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It should have been a pretty obvious clue as to which side Pelosi butters her bread on when she proudly and confidently took hold of the reins two years ago, ready to go with her 2006 Democratic Mandate to End the War, and then almost immediately became butthurt and ran right home to cave on Iran when AIPAC made her cry.