Letters to the Editor
maniondl
Published Letters: 52 Editor's Choice: 1
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The march to war, part II: Iran
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In addition to Gordon's Judy Miller-esque Iran scare piece, Bill Kristol has indicated on Faux News that Bush could make the case for invading Iran more quickly than people think.
Hillary Clinton says we would "obliterate" Iranians should there be an attack on Israel, and wants to create a nuclear umbrella of deterance around the middle east--something her top military advisor, Wes Clark, had a difficult time defending.
The whole John McCain Shia'-Sunni "flap" a weeks ago always struck me as something beyond a senior moment. Let's assume McCain does know the difference between Sunni and Shia, an assumption that befits someone of his experience in the Senate. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't deliberately lying about Iranians training al-Quaida. Isn't it more likely that the old actor forgot his lines/ mistimed them? I think it's highly probable that McCain was trained in the neocon new world order plan--which includes invading Iran and selling said invasion to the American people by conflating Iran with al-Quaida--and ye olde truth-teller just forgot that it wasn't time to put those lines out there yet.
The press has to take up the story first, then the politicians sell it with the story already confirmed by the pres.
At the risk of sounding paranoid, I really do think the neocons ,and their likely and unlikely allies of late, are planning to invade Iran and we are seeing the first waves of Psych Ops, of propoganda attack, right now.
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Neocons, anti-semitism, anti-Israel clarification
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. These comments help me remember there are certainly high passions for politics and that threads go off into unintended directions. I'm glad folks are passionate.
Even though there has been no uproar over my last post (thankfully), I just wanted to clarify for the record that when I use the term "neoconservative" or "neocon," I'm using it in a pro-perpetual-war-machine kind of sense. I see it as a defending-the-Bush-Doctrine word, not a rejection of the state of Israel or the thinkers who defined the movement in the late 20th century.
As y'all were...sorry for the interruption.
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Don't I wish it, Iokannan in the Well
[Read the article: Who needs Dana Perino when you have the NYT's Michael Gordon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ha! As Rummy (in)famously said "You go to war with the army you have."
I would not put it past the war-machine to continue the march with whatever it has and whatever "intelligence" it has cooked up.
In the meantime, the terrorists on the Afghan-Pakistan border remain relatively unchallenged.
Our lack of foreign policy staggers the mind.
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Leadership and Blogs
[Read the article: Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not much to add to the substance of your excellent post, Glenn. Thanks for holding our leaders accountable. Someone has to do it, and it ain't going to be traditional media.
But one of Reid's comments struck me as an important aside. As someone relatively new to the blogosphere, I can say that many--if not most--of my liberal leaning and mainstream colleagues consider blogs to be extremist. This view is of course inherited from mainstream traditional media, and is not tested by the reality of actually devoting some time to finding blogs that promote solid reporting and reading them to judge for oneself. If one reads blogs it's kind of a dirty secret. Blogs are written, supposedly, by folks who didn't make it to the elite level doing whatever they set out to do, and consequently their authors haven't learned how the real world of power and compromise works.
Note that I disagree with these assessments, but I have to admit a brief sneer of disapproval on my part long before I had actually read any of the "harder stuff" than you and Salon. It was only because I had an unexpected break and was bored with some bias on the sites I usually browsed that I took a chance and branched out.
Just sayin'. We need a majority in Congress, a Dem president, and a swift attitude change toward blogging and media coverage before progressive causes have a serious chance at being reinstated. We have a bad reputation in the mainstream.