Letters to the Editor
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Arne
Particularly those that have oil or some other commodity worthy of plunder.
Yes. It didn't start with bananas and won't end with oil.
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Iokannan
Is it my fault you comments have more logical and factual holes in them than swiss cheese?
I'm just thankful his unitard doesn't have holes as big or frequent.
It does, however, have a whiff of cheese about it, don't you think? ;-}
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L.W.M.
If you're going to post that, then I'm going to post my list of historic Zionist quotes:
"We must expel Arabs and take their places."
-- David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, 1949-1954, 1955-1963 to the General Staff
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
-- David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, 1949-1954,1955-1963, to the General Staff.
"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"
-- Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, 1949-1954, 1955-1963
"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."
-- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel 1969 - 1974
Let me know when you're ready for Part 2.
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@bobr900
You make a point of which I am not aware, about this sanitization of Bush Sr., as I have not seen the PBS show. But all of your suggestions seem plausible.
L.W.M. confirms my point about the mass media, who controls it, and how what is served to the public is determined by them. The owners of media decide what is news, and what isn't, and therefore determine what the people know. It is probably fair to say that most Americans do not realize that George Bush has recently admitted to being complicit in the commission of War Crimes, by international standards. It would not be in the media's interest to report this too heavily. People might start to question why no one was holding Bush to account.
The events of 9/11 are in the same black hole. If the people were aware that Bush had allowed or planned that tragedy, to allow him to take advantage of the generation of patriotic support and sympathy, that might be his undoing. The media see that this is the case. In general, they are corporations in bed with the elite. Therefore for them to report factually on this issue would be against their interests. No wonder there is no review of David Ray Griffins books, and no explanation as to why so many architects and engineers dispute the official story. Better to ignore than question. After all, questioning leads to facts, and facts tend to be unpleasant.
Many of us know the emperor has no clothes, and he knows it too. It is heartening to know that his future holds for him the prospect of someone giving him that tap on the shoulder, for the rest of his life. Pinochet got his. George will too...
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@Susan Sunflower
Enjoy your predictable outrage ... It is the "status quo" that is being defended here ... Israel is part of that "status quo" ... Israel is a "better," more reasonable, neighbor that the inevitable radical islamic state that might replace it.
Jmho.
Look on the bright side.
The State of Israel is the one thing that unites the Islamic world.
OTOH, there are running gun battlesin Beirut today (and yesterday) between the Sunnis and Shiite Hezbollah. The Army is trying to stay out of it.
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@prunes
MAD implies trust. You trust your foe to not act in a manner that would harm himself.
Suicide bombers do worry about harming themselves.
Maybe the leaders of Iran will not mimic the suicide bombers that they brainwash, but there are other ways trust comes into play.
Assuming Iran develops a nuke, can we trust them to control what they have?. . .can we trust them to prevent others from using it?
It's not a pretty picture.
I don't trust Iran.
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Must have missed that
I've never seen Glenn be ambiguous about much of anything.
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War with Iran
And why shouldn't the NeoConservatives who cheerled America into Iraq be working dilligently to duplicate their accomplishment in ian?
In a world of no consequences (for them), the occupation of Iaq is a complete success:
1. They got their war.
2. They got their war.
3. They got their war.
Nothing else mattered. And not one of the neoCons has, or ever will, suffer any consequence for hte war: In fact they all have become rich(er) as a result.
And, what are their objectives now?
1. War with Iran
2. War with Iran
3. War with Iran.
President Bush, also someone who has never even heard the word "accountable" and his own name mentioned in the same sentence in his entire life, will almos certainly give another war to the NeoConsa as a farewell president.
Presidential candiate John McCain, who wants to be President in the worst way, will do exactly that by signing on to whatever the White house policy makers want, in return for uncoditional support from the Conservative media, led by FoxNews.
Once in office, President McCain will be freed from accountability for the (then) three failing wars/occupations and permitted to fumble along for several years with a "Stay the Course because it is so important" theme to carry him into a second term.
The NeoCons' solution to what will then be three disasters?
1. War with Syria
2. War with Syria
3. War with Syria
Until China decides to stop lending the US money and pulls the plug at a Treasury Bill auction. At which point the US will go the way of Zimbabwe.