Letters to the Editor
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Thanks, Juan Cole...
"Baku." The American capitalism's is striving to establish a world monopoly of oil. Juan Cole helps us to understand that on account of oil, blood is being shed. U.S. oil companies are crass. It's not easy to understand the Islamic movement either and why soldiers must die because of the lure. Oil.
There certainly has been no effort at "conflict resolution" and honest discussions in our "leadership" about a Central Asia culture, their irresponsible governments, their oil pipelines spread across all those "stans"...our military bases etc.,
Afganistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikisstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbeskistan. All those "stans."
How can we citizens be informed unless people like Juan tell us what his expertise senses from a more familiar, and honest assessment? When all the words were being flung around that were foreign to our 21st Western ears; I accidentally head a Ahmed Rashid being interviewed on npr radio. I sat in my pick-up truck where I sometimes "hide" and find a beautiful music tune.
I bought the book later to try to comprehend, "Jihad-- The rise of militant Islam in Central Asia." He also for the Wall Street Journal and his known for his weighty analysis about that far-away oil-land. He wrote "Taliban" which was a # 1 NYT's best seller.
I sure admit that the world of thought, ref: 'stuff' about the World Bank, Chevron, Exxon's and CEO's, etc., 'stuff' of The United Nations Deverlopment Programs...etc., is very strategic "foreign" 'stuff' mentality to me. I only glean the more simple sentences:...'stuff'...
...*the areas have been beset by wars, misery, irresponsible political shortsighted (long before Bush2's entrance, but as oils # '1' representative)..."food for oil," (hoax)...Western diner aid...
THEN: people have sold everything for food, they have nothing left to sell, they have sold their doors, windows, and one can see children digging in wheat fields, searching for grain in a rat hole, where a rodent hoarded winter stores. And 60,000 children in southern Tajikistan are unable to attend school because they have no shoes or clothes...and on and on.*
...Informed persons, worldwide, were warning about NO Good outcome in these oil-conglom real-estate's areas, decades previous to BusbCo's cabal, and the medium and 'tool' was a willing "journalistic" press. BushCo raced to fetch a black rodent's hind quarter-- Baku- interpreted= Oil.
...We really have a batch of sleazy in DC's playground sand box...it's ugly and bloody.
...others comments above the 'stuff' we need to hear, and it's well said. I just wanted to say "Thanks Juan Cole."
I can't remember my password at your site (?) and maybe the plague of "I forget, I can't recall" is fallen upon all the Westerner's associates and a lapse in memory, is a sot death?
I do REMEMBER I was corresponding with the maladministration before 9-11. They nose knot how to speak the truth. What frauds, ill, and they LIE!
Treacherous.
Our quarrel now is dark to view,
They bear the weakest, and gloomiest hue.
Treacherous.
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Some guys will do anything
to keep a job. This guy did. He shut up. He kissed ass. He did as he was told. He was the Michael Brown of espionage. His book is reminiscent of that written by another war criminal, Robert McNamara.
Tenet is a sycophant who played footsy with the guys who kept him in his job after the Supremes orchestrated regime change. Watching him trying to bully the reporter on "60 Minutes" made me think about what might have happened had Tenet showed the same balls in dealing with the Perles and the Wolfowitzes and the Cheneys. Instead, like a good puppy, he waits until there is something in it for him. What a loser and what a truly illustrative example of how we got in this quagmire in the first place.
In trying to sort out the run up to Vietnam, David Halberstam titled his book "The Best and the Brightest." When history writes this tawdry chapter of American history, the book will be "The Dumb and the Deceitful" and Queens George will have a starring role.
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Still waiting, Professor Cole...
You apparently wrote this paragraph before learning that the central premise (that Tenet and Perle would have encountered each other on September 12)could not possibly be true;
Tenet has revealed for the first time that he encountered Pentagon advisor Richard Perle on the day after the Sept. 11 attacks. As Tenet recounted the story on "60 Minutes," Perle "said to me, 'Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday; they bear responsibility.'" Tenet told interviewer Scott Pelley that he was startled at the allegation. "It's September the 12th," said Tenet. "I've got the manifest with me that tells me al-Qaida did this. Nothing in my head that says there is any Iraqi involvement in this in any way, shape or form, and I remember thinking to myself, as I'm about to go brief the president, 'What the hell is he talking about?'"
Now that you know that Perle was in France at the time, and did not/could not fly back to the US until several days later, don't you think you need to reassess this central thesis in your article?
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round 'em up
and ship their sorry asses to the Hague. Let's start with George from Queens, then grab Feith from his cushy professor job. Perle lives in France (a Repub in France?) so it's short trip for him. Rummy & Cheney & Wolfie get the next spot and let's let W. watch his pals go off and get convicted. Let him comtemplate not how history will judge his presidency, but which country's jail is he going to rot in.
If Milosovic is a war criminal, so are these guys.
Geez, that feels so much better...
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I really hate to think what the "slow burn" of Tenet's revelations must be doing to the wounded and families and friends of the dead ...
I was among those who suspected in early fall of 2002 that war ON Iraq was a "done deal" and that Bush was engaged in window-dressing to sell a war with a country that we had beaten decisively a decade earlier, crippled with sanctions, whose population was already suffering, whose economy was teetering on collapse -- a country with a few tanks but no airforce.
With all the exaggerated threats and seemingly unfounded claims, it was difficult to conceive that it was ALL lies ... and I recall being fairly baffled that we would deliberately send our infantry into the line of fire of chemical and biological agents -- weapons Saddam denied having, weapons which if used would bring the world down on his head, but the only possibly effective resistance in his arsenal (if he still had them, they were still operational, etc.)
Tenet's revelations must be doing VERY.BAD.THINGS for morale of the "honest mistake" crowd.