Letters to the Editor
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Twenty mintitues after RMP, posted I began to huff, and puff to vent.
I hope some more clear voices overrules my deserved rage...I can hardly belive I'm silly enough to enter the fray...
Other- are more studious and erstwhile journalist (thanks RMP) etc.,), and I'm aware my expression are raw, and maybe a tiny bit unrefined. But I never will hush? If a sense a fake-level head actor actress, I wont.
T.F's ilk have betrayed youth. College educated youth can't find acceptable employment. They are burdened with a harsh school debt that stalks them to the grave. Homes are not affordab. The arrogant, and "dominant" haughty disposition, sicken the more respected good common people. Never allow the Gop mentality a ounce of headway. A inch=mile=Ruin.
It is false, and low self-esteem, phony geniality that they display for us to exhibit- Ill. They pretend to be acknowledging a lowly 'peon' may have a thought to consider but, okay, the neocon hisses, sneers, and like the proverbial snake- they are wanting to hide in the green grass. They drag the belly. They come back with another, useless, and vain venom attack.
'Um get feather fluttered, but never doubt, they are embodiments of the former characters who wreaked havoc and did grievious harm, historically to communities. To me: 'um are ignominious. And they deserve the distinction, and must be publicly exposed: frauds, fakes, failures, and the old term suits- gads, fits, 'um Rat finks!
They will try to prevail with a wounded pride. But they hate to haul real muck and may sing Yankee Doodle. Yes, O, eat at the wealthiest establishment while many starve from Global Policy.
Thumbs down!
Ra-zoo. Ra-zoo.
Visit the zoo.
I despise from cover-to-cover what they spew. Oh, Ah, and the bland stick-to-it-ive-ness is hidden goo, and in my opinion, this arena is where lusty killers go for self-false self aggrandisement's and try to save false face and forked tongue.
It is a buddy boy, slap on the cheek, jockey boy club of nincompoops, in my view. They act so assured, and that to me is conceit of the worst kind, and if No doubt, they are very wrong, and failed all humanity. Boot-lick. Ruffled feathers. It is a pig's gig for more and more greed. If so adamant- Why is all so deplorable? Any why are so many in the world "screwed" from the daily persistence in THEM! Fakes.
If the scintillating intellect has failed thus so far--- Why trust another second their globes mentality imposed by relatively few "rich goons" which have ruined, and hurt so much/many?
A big oak grows from a little nut-- Have these "big" ex-spurts sprouted yet? Little jerks. Little Joe's and little Tom tom's, is right.
The fake placid public show they perform is nauseating. War hustlers. Bloody. O, sharpshooter badge of cowardliness! Wheww--- No fool many of us citizens...the quick puckered fake grin looks like they went on a 4- leg coon and possum hunt on a grey foggy day and ate a bite from a unripe persimmon tree?
Whoop, if you ever ate a unready persimmon, you'd do a pucker face, you-wee, too. My Dad played a trick like that, and I thought my lips would fall off! Old yore. THEM in the MSM are just fake trickster and bad crappers. It's Not funny, either.
Whats more-- If the neocon hauled a 3,000 pound wagon box into town...It's still homicide-- the war. No leave wriggle room. No big Little Red Neocon Riding Hoods, anymore. The red puddles in the Middle East sand are not red tulips. Yea-- dash someone else's youth down Bloody Dael People Lane...Not fair.
Oh-- such pride can expect a weal and angry determined opposition with hope to reclaim some integrity, but there is none left within them...Take the pink tint goggles off. Put real honest-justice spectacles on. Hang them for clarity on the nose bridge. 'Um neocons or "neoconservatives" , or whatever, can feed pork and beans to a lame donkey-mule or horse forever, but they are destitute empty neocon creeps.
Give us back some anticipated decency in America. okay. Oh momma.
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I'm real late to the party
But I will mention that somebody who is capable of writing this:
if one is seeking to engage in an open and respectful dialogue about political issues with the goal of mutual understanding (while perhaps bridging some differences)
is not someone I would trust to have good judgment of the effects of military intervention on the attitudes of an indigenous population.
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To Iokannan in the Well
Iokannan in the Well, I think you've misread what I wrote. Iraq is not anything but a disaster. That is to say, it is one. To call it anything else is either wrong or disingenuous. This does not change the fact that there were advocates of the war who had intentions other than those of the Bush Administration. It would take a separate argument to support whether it could have been a just humanitarian intervention under the right circumstances and with the right leadership.
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a couple things ...
I don't think Friedman qualifies as a "neocon" ... I am certain he does not so self-identify ... I don't think he sees himself as an idealoge. I think he is fairly typical of his generation and mine ... "boomers" if you will, who were raised saturated with American exceptionalism ... America as Superman ... America as "god's chosen policeman of the world" ... and while I was educated in America's history of covert and not-so-cover self-interested "intervention" way back in the early 1960s, Friedman and most Americans rarely acknowledge that America as seen by much of the world was and is actually defined by such big boot tactics. I am continually appalled at how deeply entrenched American "privilege" and exceptionalism are in the American conciousness ... the excessive self-regard.
Regarding Iraq and racism: I am not talking about "hating moslems" or "ragheads" or "swarthy ones" .... I'm talking about hating and devaluing "others." Racist behavior by American troops in Iraq has been on display continually. Our casual response to civilian casualties, our continued use of airstrikes despite repeated civilian casualties ... our cost/benefit ratio appears to place almost no value on civilians.
Robert Fisk did a series of interviews with Iraqis trying to find out how, when, why so many Iraqis who were quite happy to be rid of Saddam, came to support various aspects of "the insurgency"... primarily, it was OUR neglect of their needs that VERY EARLY post-invasion convinced them that we didn't care about them ... that, most likely, we were there just for the oil. We didn't even protect priceless national treasures ... we didn't even restore electricity ... people wouldn treat dogs like that ... racism seemed likely ... and our "they all look alike" brutality seemed to confirm this.
I do realize it is "fighting words" to charge racism ... we live in a country that alternately pretends that's all behind us while we are regularly informed of glaring inequalities, "urban problems," gang violence, other race related "issues" ... We have to start "seeing" the racism that's endemic ... just because the racial slurs have gone underground, the race and class issues and prejudices remain.
Finally, it is hard to accept the "alternative hypothesis" that Friedman is so naive as to think the "democracy" can be forced on a country by military invasion, military occupation, and puppet governance. Friedman is not an economist or a historian ... but still... this isn't rocket science. The history of "regieme change" in the last century was DISMAL ... while I will not doubt his "hopes" for Iraq, they seem pathetically out of touch with reality and "likely outcomes"