Letters to the Editor
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I thought everyone knew that.
That's what I thought too. It never occurred to me that there were serious war opponents who were unaware that Saddam had switched from dollars to euros for Iraqi oil.
I'm an economic illiterate, but even I can see the threat to American hegemony and particularly American oil hegemony from that simple decision.
I don't know enough to really comment meaningfully on this subject, economics is not something that has really attracted my attention enough to drive me to study it in my usual obsessive manner, everything I know about economics is the result of picking it up while studying something else.
I'm going to ask once more, why did Dick Ctheney have America jump into what it is perfectly obvious he knew was going to be a quagmire? Until this question is adequately answered no amount of planning or strategizing is going to to do much good.
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@bucky1
Unfortunately, I fail to see any reason for optimism regarding our fatally flawed foreign and economic policies. The only way it might stop is if Paulson or whoever the Treasury Secretary at the time is comes out and makes a statement along the lines of "the US can no longer service its obligations", i.e. we're flat broke. Then the Storm Troppers and Mercs will be coming home, to stand around guarding the Federal Reserve Bank and BofA near you.
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What a web of deceit we see... Who Wins?
The Award goes to Sinnard who admits of never eating pink baloney.
And to buck1 for nasty galore projections, and never having an orgasm?
A rodeo buckaroo poke gets a dose of madness, depression and chronic dismay?
Then, a spell of spontaneous compassion, and bucky1 ask a donkey where it hurts.
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He wanted us to be in a quagmire.
why did Dick [Cheney] have America jump into what it is perfectly obvious he knew was going to be a quagmire?
Duh.
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When the companies that build ICBMs own Newspapers
Do you really expect objectivity? Not Objectivity as applied to mainstream journalism, which is little more than licking peanut butter off of the balls of the Military Industrial Complex, but real objective analysis.
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Maybe
...the reason why those debate panelists were chosen is that Mr. Rose recognizes that there's zero point in arguing whether or not the barn door should have been left open five years ago, and that the only pertinent question is how best to round up the animals. Everything else is sound and fury.
And if any of you would like a sneak peek at what an immediate withdrawl of US troops would lead to, check the news about the fighting in Basra today, where militias have killed "hundreds", according to CNN.com, since the British army pulled out.
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@Aycharaych
I'm going to ask once more, why did Dick Ctheney have America jump into what it is perfectly obvious he knew was going to be a quagmire? Until this question is adequately answered no amount of planning or strategizing is going to to do much good.
It was the first battle in the war to end the American Republic and begin the American Imperium. The guy thinks he's an enabler to Caesar Augustus. On the side, to isolate China from the emerging Caspian and other oilfields. Not a secret.
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Aych...
I'm an economic illiterate, but even I can see the threat to American hegemony and particularly American oil hegemony from that simple decision.
Same here. That's why I asked you to post more about it, since you first mentioned it. I thought it might be another one of your disparate areas of expertise.
However, I am not at all surprised that there are well-informed people who don't know about the euro/dollar issue. It is almost never mentioned in the press, and then never by "serious" journalists. And it's likely to be covered in depth only in places like Harper's or The Nation. And their readership bases are not huge.
The point was never to make anyone feel badly about not already knowing, but to open up a discussion. Period.
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Charlie Rose
Fist of all, I keep reminding myself to send Glenn Greenwald a note telling him how thankful I am for the terrific "pro-American" work he does.
Thanks, Glenn.
Does Charlie Rose realize that his mos Youtubed moment is looking on dumbly (in both senses of the word) as Thomas Friedman delivered his notorious "suck on this" soliloquy?
The people who promoted this war should be in monasteries with shaved heads, wearing sackcloth and ashes.
The people who saw what a folly this war was back in 2002 should be rewarded with acclaim and visibility in the punditocracy.
How many more people must die for this country's inability to admit a mistake?
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I was too glib
Cheney knew (and knows) that for his maintenance of an over-arching Executive power that supersedes that of the other branches to have any arguable Constitutional sanction (by virtue of POYUS' role as CiC) depends on the US being in a state of war.
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But Chris,
Glenn quite obviously reads the egregious dreck that comes from these same rags and more (and thank goodness). Are you going to smite him with your pulsating ePeen?
What the hell is an "ePeen" anywhoo? I'm afraid to ask what might make it "throb". :-S
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@get real
The people who promoted this war should be in monasteries with shaved heads, wearing sackcloth and ashes.
People in monasteries with shaved heads, who wear sackcloth and ashes command respect. The people who promoted this war should be in prison. If the Quakers want that to be a penitentiary, fine, I just want them out of the political system forever.
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Chris:
When the companies that build ICBMs own Newspapers
Do you really expect objectivity?
I'm sure this was meant rhetorically, but "No!"
Just wondering, though... do you have any links or references showing those ownership connections? I could use them for something else I'm working on.
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The death of billions? That sounds like Eugenicist propaganda
Either that or we will die in vast numbers, having violated the balance in our atmosphere. How, I dunno. I have some ideas, but no traction on them. An invisible death awaits billions.
Sounds like you've been spending too much time hanging out at the Georgia Guidestones, aka bigoted pervert pagan monument to the awesomeness of Eugenics Programs. You sound like you're buying into the "90% Humans on Earth must die so that Humanity can live on in balance" propaganda.
http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm
Where do you think China's One Child Only policy came from? China? Would you volunteer your family for sterilization and Government depopulation measures in order to "save the planet"? Do you think that any of the elites are going to volunteer?