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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
This man publishes books after book filled with blather. TV gives him lots of time to promote his blather. He gets on the NYT bestsellers list. And then he tops it off with a speech at the Council on Foreign Policy followed up an interview on PBS with another serious looking guy.
Rinse and repeat one year later. His mission: Searching for the next American Enemy.
The Bush Administration of course agrees with Friedman that we must attack Iran. Here's the latest from negotiations on Iran's nuclear capabilities:
The White House on Wednesday said security guarantees for Iran were not being considered at the moment in nuclear talks.
The comment came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the six nations pressing Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program could guarantee Tehran's security."Security guarantees are not something we are looking at the moment," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in Israel, where President George W. Bush is meeting with leaders during a trip to the Middle East.
Yep, the rest of the world be happy to give Iran some sort of safety guarantee if they will stop enriching uranium. No way the US will go along with that, because then Cheney and Bush couldn't get their jollies from one last attack for old times' sake.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080514/pl_nm/iran_us_dc_1
...with yesterday's post. No one "serious" can say a bad word about Israel or a good word about Iran.
It is hard not to comment on 9/11, given that this is part of the text of your column.
My own feeling is that 9/11 served as a pretext for all the abuses of the Bush administration which have followed. Bush has been able to essentially dismantle the American Constitution, and we all know that he thinks its '..just a god damn piece of paper..' anyway.
Since we still do not know who the real perpetrators of 9/11 were, it would be difficult to understand their motives. The motives of Friedman and the neocons are much easier to discern. Endless war means endless money, and who doesn't love money?
Serious? [!] Chicken Rooster. A brick-bat. Tom F. is a loose cannon dangerous weapon. He's noy reading good bedtime child books. He spews old fashion reed and hate, and fakes it with fancy rhetoric. Tom F. supports pow-wails with the pro-war and killer neo-cons. Misery. Yes.
Tom F. dines with the murderous.
The man is full of misery and pride.
He is nay, and Not a salve to humankind.
(I was just enjoying back letters from Scintilla Fly.)
GG said:
[Iran] has never invaded another country.
This just goes to show the short memory of your average liberal. Iran invaded Greece not once, but twice in the 5th century BC. In fact, Iran (sure, it was called Persia then) was a scourge in the eastern Mediterranean. My god, they even invaded India! Iran has invaded most of its neighbors at some point in the past 2500 years. This is the truth Glenn Greenwald doesn't want you to know.
And now Friedman has shifted his phallic, warmongering eyes from Iraq to Iran.
Glenn, did you just call Friedman a "dick"? Pretty funny. (I'll grasp at my humor straws humor where I can find 'em, inasmuch as the rest of the post, and what it says about Serious U.S. foreign policy is so bleak).
Shhhsss. Do not say that out loud; Shooter might hear.
(I'll grasp at my humor straws where I can find 'em, inasmuch as the rest of the post, and what it says about Serious U.S. foreign policy is so bleak).
READ WHAT I MEAN, NOT WHAT I TYPE!
And don't forget, more recently Iran invaded the US. As our RWNM friends will no doubt remind us, embassies are considered US territory, so when the embassy in Tehran was seized, the US was invaded. What other proof do you need that they will attack Cleveland next?
Tom F. is more public bad animus. He (ETC.,) will not assuage perpetual quarrels. GOPS initiate strife and stir animosity. They instigate troubles, and they do a poor job at rationalizing carnage. I opine that opinion.
The false 'conservative' is the one who ruins sustainable conservative principles. Looser's.
Old wounds open to fester ooze.
Tom F.oolery is a neocon stooge.
so they'll sell us cheap oil."
So how's that working out for "us"? I mean considering that oil is now $100+ a barrel more expensive than before Chimpy started jaw-boning his A-rab buds. The only thing "cheap" to come out of this administration so far is Jenna's wedding night trousseau.
Until a couple of weeks ago, Friedman seemed to have vanished from the NYT op-ed page, and I fantasized for a time that he had been quietly canned, perhaps to atone for the dismally misguided choice the paper had made in putting Bill Kristol there. Though too good to be true, it made sense to me that since two of their "liberals," Friedman and Dowd, were clearly unhinged irrelevancies, perhaps a search was on for someone with something to contribute to the page.
Alas, it was not to be. The Foghorn Leghorn of the of the chickenhawk class is back, and apparently better than ever. Perhaps he should reissue his unreadable claptrap, "The World is Flat," under the new title, "The World Ought to Be Flattened."
It never ceases to amaze me that, among the Serious, each lost war begs for another, while among normal Americans, the warmongers look like bigger idiots with each passing day.
Maybe Friedman's alter ego will show up (again?) in the comments to set us all straight....
had the pie throwers at Brown University known of Friedmans penchant for baseball bats. Oh well there is always a next time.
Petroleum, natural gas. McCain pisses on Russia, we isolate Iran while the Neo-cons try to create a subterfuge association outside of the UN to deal with vetoes from China and Russia specifically for this issue. Sounds like par for the course for our bold foreign policy agenda. All that's left is Israel to bomb Syria and Iran and we wage war on the Axis of Evil by proxy. Bring the popcorn ...
Be sure to check out Scott Horton's Interview with Sid B. over at No Comment.
Here is the money paragraph:
"My last point applies here. Bush, Cheney, et al. sought to create an unaccountable and unfettered executive. In order to do that they kept the Congress under their heel (when Republican) and at bay (when Democratic), as well as exploiting and intimidating a craven and status-driven national press corps. Following the dictum that people are policy, Bush & Co. used the power of presidential appointment to fill the administration with more than loyal Republicans. Bush built a regime, not just an administration. For example, the appointments of Federalist Society lawyers from the commanding heights of the Department of Justice to counsel offices of every department and agency was intended to install cadres of a new ideological clerisy. Professional standards have been construed as mere instrumentalities of conscious “liberal’ ideology, a counterpoint and obstacle to power. Cherry-picking information to support a priori political conclusions has pervaded government methodology from intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to climate change.
Once again, a new government would have to have extensive understanding of the federal apparatus in order to reconstruct it. The Congress cannot do the job, even if it conducted the most far-reaching investigative hearings and maintained diligent oversight. Only a president can truly fix the executive branch. The Bush model of a president who casts himself as a big picture man, while dependent on advisers for working the actual machinery, inevitably leads to a president who would soon find himself in control of neither."
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/hbc-90002915
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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