Letters to the Editor
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Greenwood should join the Edwards Campaign
Glenn Greenwald is one among many far-left critics of the war who specializes in keeping score but always looking backwards. He offers no real vision of the future. Frankly, Greenwood belongs in the Edwards campaign where he could spend all day pounding Hillary on her war record. I value opinions and analysis that place more weight on what is in front of us as opposed to keeping old scores straight. 20/20 vision hindsight is great, but, so what!
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This article is for Gary Owen
who thought Democracy Now was as bad as Fox.
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Squash all these cockroaches
William S. Lind and the Free Congress Foundation:
Criticism
Alleged publishing of Islamophobic books
Carl Ernst, an academic scholar of Islam, states that the Free Congress Foundation publications is 'promoted and supported by right-wing organizations, who are perpetuating a type of bigotry similar to anti-Semitism and racial prejudice...Free Congress Foundation has received almost $24 million in funding from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and other conservative sources in the past twenty years.' [1]
Alleged links to "Dominionism"
TheocracyWatch, a project run by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy at Cornell University and critical of much of politically active religious conservatism, says that the Free Congress Foundation has ties to what TheocracyWatch calls the Dominionist movement. As an example of "Dominionism In Action," TheocracyWatch says FCF's manifesto The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement "illuminates the tactics of the dominionist movement."[2] The manifesto is no longer on the FCF website.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Congress_Foundation
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LWM/Anonymous cockroaches
I would quote LWM, but he is afraid to write anything so there is nothing there. Perhaps it is because Lind has a great article and the coward just does not have the ability to address Lind's points.
More likely it is that the memo from William, the leader of the cabal, forbids LWM from saying anything --- so he just does insult against his betters like 14 year old boys do when the adults can not hear.
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Bebop-o
I only try to remind people about the human cost of war. You breathe it for us and are far more eloquent. You keep the intellectual in us grounded. Thanks
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@ rft100
I don't agree there. Totally stomachachingly disagree.
It is exactly the lack of insight into and interest in recent history that got the US into this mess. Heck, the outcome of the invasion in Afghanistan and Iraq was clear before it even started.
History shows that it has a great way of clarifying the present.
So I prefer to sticking with Glenn on this.
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Chickenhawk liar, pants on fire
Glenn, I should have written before but was too lazy to register.
This is just a line to thank you for your amazingly on-the-money and rapid responses to the thrashing evasions of the fork-tongued chickenhawk crew. In this instance it's the most despicable component: the "liberal", "humanitarian" global crusaders of the school of Scoop Jackson, for whom beating up unoffending foreigners hurts them more than it does the kids they starve and the wedding parties they bomb.
Neocons and other breeds of Fighting Keyboarder sing the praises of Winston Churchill with monotonous regularity nowadays, but their true role model is Winston Smith, the fellow who made his living rewriting history. The history the armchair generals want to make over is their own-- of cheerleading while the going was good and then trying to salvage a shred of credibility by pretending they had always "had grave doubts" or had become "tough critics of the failed strategy" yadda yadda yadda.
Facts are stubborn things, as the man said. The internet lets us dive into the Memory Hole and catch these liars at it. Nobody does it better than you, sir.
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Funding for OHanlon and Pollack
Funding for the Saban Center from here http://www.saban.com/. Staff is here http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/staff.htm. Israel interests figure pretty big here.
Just following the money.
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Recommended Partitioning of Iraq Presentation
Dear Mr. O’Hanlon
Yesterday I was watching your recommended partitioning of Iraq presentation on C-SPAN, as a born middle easterner from a neighboring country of Iraq I thought there is an easier and less expensive way to achieve all your recommended objectives to ultimately save Israel and US from previously proposed disastrous idea of invading Iraq by this country that you had also proposed.
Simply Instead of moving millions of Shies and Sunni Iraqis to “SHIESTAN” and “SUNISATAN” as it was in your plan yesterday a” Better Way Forward” will be to just move all the Iraqis to the current location of state of Israel and move all the Israelis including the Liked party members to Iraq and rename the newly formed country “Likudestan” and the adjacent body of water will be called The Likud Golf with its own Brookings Institution. To assure that this names will be accepted we can ask the National Geographic to immediately print the new names on all published atlases and even pass a new UN resolution with chapter seven penalties for countries that do not recognize this newly formed young countries and renamed waters.
With this proposal Israelis will ultimately get both the OIL and the Water that they need to continue and still have access to open sea via the Likud Golf and we will have the control of the oil with much less military interventions and invasions of other countries and killing terrorist insurgents.
Now since Iraqis are moved to Palestine, Muslim Arab brothers from Palestine will not fight and kill Muslim Arab brothers from Iraq although we have moved them there so we will finally bring peace and calm and prosperity to the eastern Mediterranean shores this brings the end to the sixty year war we had created in 1946 or rather the end of world war one. This may sounds a little like the birth pang speech of last year.
The icing on the cake or the big bonus for us is that Likudestan (formerly Israel) will be Iran’s next door neighbor it will be much easier to ask the Likudies to drop Nukes on Iran and save the Arabs from being embarrassed like the war of the 1980’s we don’t even have to send brother Rumsfield to supply them with WMD since the Likudes are self sufficient.
The only difficulty with this proposal which I am sure that a scholar like you will be able to easily solve is the logistics of renting so many U-Hall’s in short notice but we can contract the moving to KBR and install the Marines as the traffic cup to clear the jam that can be created in the Jordan desert highway which I am sure the scholars of the Brookings can figure out this rather simple details.
Hopefully we can all see the next scholarly planed recommendations in a nationwide presentation on major western media.
I for myself thank god for Mr. Blair’s acceptance of being the new Middle east peace envoy we could not have a better person for this post. I am sure he is the only person can facilitate this plan and Mr. Abbas will be happy that he can be now president of a nation of twenty five million plus.
With best wishes
Kooshy Afshar