Letters to the Editor
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"conservative intelligentsia?"
"For almost 20 years, Dinesh D'Souza has been a prominent force in the conservative intelligentsia..."
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...
Well, most everything that could be said about this helium-huffing, chirpy voiced spin merchant has already been covered by Salon letter writers, particularly the "Editor's choice" selections. But here's a bit more...
If this is the best face of "affirmative action" that conservatives can muster (the same nitwits who gave us Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court), there's not much to fear.
Blaming Carter for "losing" Iran is the height of idiocy. Iran was never "ours" save for those periods of corporate and imperialist domination attained with the help of U.S. and British-imposed stooges.
When the democratically elected Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown by the CIA in 1953, and replaced by the Shah, it set the stage for the eventual ascendancy of theocrats. Carter didn't arrive until the last act of a script that had been written decades earlier.
When the First Nitwit declared Iran to be of the "Axis of Evil," I winced as he stumbled through his teleprompted nonsense. Iranian moderates, who had slowly been returning some sense of rationality to their country were instantly doomed, and were in fact disempowered within weeks. It was just as inconcievable as when some bozo had Dumbya proclaim the forthcoming Near Eastern slaughter a "crusade," as if every Muslim had forgotten that their progenitors' blood had run deep in the streets of Jerusalem (along with the blood of Jews, who had been getting along quite well there).
If d'Souza managed to get through an entire book without mentioning the role that Abrams, Wolfowitz, Perle, etc., played in these fiascoes, he should never be allowed to destroy trees again for the purpose of disseminating his hogwash.