Letters to the Editor
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Nasty Hit Piece
Sorry to break-up the love-in here Glenn but that was quite a nasty little hit piece you wrote. Juvenile, ad-hominem attacks may buy you legions of adoring fans on the left, and judging from the comments here it does, but people with an actual, working brain aren't impressed by these hissy fits that seem to come from the left so frequently. Support the war, don't support the war whatever, just make some actual sense when you want to make a point. Who cares what Rich Lowry thinks. Is he in a position to have any affect at all on the war? Besides, calling people names and using "scare quotes" might satisfy some inner child's rage but it just comes across as, well, childish.
I don't know a lot about Rich Lowry but I have read a number of Victor Davis Hanson's articles and even a book or two of his. (Just curious, have you or is it just more fun to insult him?) I find him to be quite sensible and knowledgeable in his area of expertise, which is history in general and military history in particular. Being a lawyer I assume you can't claim similar expertise in either area. But hey, it’s a free country and you have a right to pop off on any subject you like. No matter how foolish it makes you look.
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Foxman
Thanks to Kovie for posting the Foxman videos on YouTube.
The subject of Foxman and his stewardship of the ADL was addressed by Glenn last week. Foxman is undermining the important work of the ADL when he aligns the group with rightwing elements and subordinates the ADL's admirable mission to his Likud agenda. Foxman has alienated many members of the ADL with his shameful water carrying for the Turkish government's attempt to deny the Armenian genocide. Here's Foxman on the subject of the Armenian genocide and his attempt to quash support within the ADL for acknowledging the Armenian genocide:
“No Armenian lives are under threat today or in danger. Israel is under threat and in danger, and a relationship between Israel and Turkey is vital and critical, so yeah, I have to weigh [that].”
How is a relationship between Turkey and Israel relevant to whether the Turkish government should acknowledge the Armenian genocide? This is a perfect example of undermining the ADL's mission by subordinating its anti-bigotry and anti-genocide message to the narrow and cynical neocon/Likud political agenda.
Here is a very enlightening article from The Forward discussing Foxman's attempts to quash support within the ADL for acknowledging the Armenian genocide: http://www.forward.com/articles/armenian-genocide-debate-exposes-rifts-at-adl-00371/
The issues of genocide and anti-semitism are far too important to be trivialized by Foxman. There can be no clearer evidence that Foxman's agenda is rightwing politics, not opposing bigotry and genocide.
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Apparently living in a complete cultural vacuum
Who cares what Rich Lowry thinks. Is he in a position to have any affect at all on the war?
Renders one an expert on what constitutes effective commentary.
Considerring that people living vicareously through the actions of our soldiers is pretty much THE driving force behind the continuation of the war, I'd say that your pronouncements of "unseriousness" pretty much make you part of the problem. Go hang out with Joe Klein. He needs your help.
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Right back at ya baby...
But hey, it’s a free country and you have a right to pop off on any subject you like. No matter how foolish it makes you look.
-- Crusader1145
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Lowry's academia...
Didn't you know? War is ok because Lowry read books from a University Library in Virginia while sitting in a cushy bean bag chair. He knows all about war, he has read books. Lowry graduated from the University of Virginia in 1990, if he really wanted to know what war was all about, he could have served in Iraq in 1991. You know, some "real world" experience in his area of supposed expertise. What a perfect opportunity he had to increase his understanding and attempt to apply and enhance his academic work by being in real situations related to it.
But of course that didn't happen. The reason is that one of the major prerequisites to being a respected Neoconservative Keyboard Warrior or Laptop Bombardier is to be the most massive of chickenhawks, it makes sense that he didn't serve when given the prime opportunity to learn about war, and instead choose the path of establishment cheerleader.
I'm sure that Lowry the chickenhawk is thankful that he has his big dopey Foghorn Leghorn in Fred Thompson.
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re:The most dangerous idea of all....
The U.S. government has never brought to bear its resources in a truly national effort to win.
A perverse truth here, tho. If'n 'Queda et. al. are Hitler why not rain down the terror? Why not [the horror] them all? Why not kill all the Palestinians and be done with it, for Christ's sake!
Is it not the perpetuity of motion that is the end game? This never ending war, the killing in the dark; a balance to maintain the Moral Authority!
An image of painful and disgusting appeal, like biting the canker clean off: the chickenhawk with blood on its talons and its addled, primordially satiated face, red and fleshy consuming dem bones, surrounded by the death of Evil!
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That Was It
The perfect article about war mongerers. Literally, a masterpiece. I'm going to start making Glenn Greenwald t-shirts.
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Jim Montague @ Harmon
Harmon, Rice and Bush all seem to be objecting to the bill not becuase anything in it is untrue, but rather because it might be inconvenient to anger Turkey. Through which a significant amount of war materiel flows to Iraq. Without which, the Iraq occupation would become much more difficult and perhaps even impossible to sustain in current form.
But the Jewish Anti-Defamation League is not part of our government, and its goals are clearly defined in its charter. Clearly, the ethnic cleansing of over a million Armenians is something the ADL must feel strongly about. One has to think that a bill that correctly identifies the historic event as genocide is something they will welcome and they will support.
I believe I have read that every living US Secretary of State supports the bill, except the one currently filling the office. How strange.