Letters to the Editor
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the "new and improved" Ledeen Doctrine
“Tom Friedman -- and the rest of our media class -- are completely unchanged as compared to what they were like in 2002.”
There does seem to be one change: a much shorter shelf life for the “Ledeen Doctrine” – which seems to have changed from every ten years to every two years.
Their craving for blood and war increases when they get it – it doesn’t satisfy them at all, they just need more and more of it.
The war in Iraq just made them more insecure, so they need another war to ease their new-found insecurities; it’s sort of a perverse “mission creep” for war-loving pundits, who seem to get more insecure with every display of their awesome machismo.
So now we have the new and improved “Ledeen Doctrine”:
“Every two years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”
Why didn’t the world learn that we meant business after Iraq?
The war-loving pundits don’t want to ask that question, they just want another war, so they don’t have to ask it. They’re expecting a different outcome, a different answer – after the next war then the world will learn we really mean business.
But that’s the very definition of insanity: “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”