Eulogy for the Neo-Cons

[prole]

Good essay, pretty much sums it up:

 

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Content...4&t=TS_Home

 

My favorite passage:

 

Some supporters got off the neo-conservative bus earlier than others. The entire staff of liberal hawks at The New Republic endorsed John Kerry in 2004 and agonized in print over their misplaced faith in both Bush and the neo-con agenda. And that grand old man of American conservatism, William F. Buckley, conceded in an interview the same year with his long-time nemesis The New York Times that, "With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn't the kind of extraterrestrial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war."

[fear_and_greed]

My favourites;

 

While Kristol's Weekly Standard endorsed the worldly war hero John McCain for the presidency in 2000, the neo-cons were far luckier in the selection, by five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, of George W. Bush, an empty vessel , who knew less about the conventions of foreign policy than his well-travelled father had forgotten.

 

"Bush had a poor memory for facts and figures," Frum recalled following his abrupt departure from Bush's speechwriting shop after his authorship of "axis of hatred" (later modified to "axis of evil" by chief speechwriter Michael Gerson) was revealed to a wide network of friends by a spouse untutored in the cardinal rule of speechwriting (anonymity). "Fire a question at (Bush) about the specifics of his administration's policies," Frum said, "and he often appeared uncertain. Nobody would ever enrol him in a quiz show."

 

A delighted Richard Perle, a 30-year veteran of the Pentagon and a foreign-policy adviser on Bush's 2000-01 transition team, was equally blunt: "The first time I met Bush," he said, "two things became clear. One, he didn't know very much . The other was that he had the confidence to ask questions that revealed he didn't know very much."

[Jim]

"Long after the days of "The smoking gun might come in the form of a mushroom cloud," "Shock and awe," "Mission accomplished" and "Bring 'em on" are mercifully past, historians will chronicle an early 21st-century America so distracted from its real enemy that Osama bin Laden and even the perpetrators of the 2001 anthrax attacks against Congressional leaders are still at large.

[Dechristo]

The real enemies are in ideologies

[tvashtarkatena]

the real enemies are ideologs

[underworld]

real enemas or ideal logs

[Dechristo]

The real enemies are in ideologies

the real enemies are ideologs

 

= my point.

[tvashtarkatena]

Not =. Ideologies don't act, people do.

[Dechristo]

= my point

[tvashtarkatena]

I think your cat is walking on your keyboard, again.

[lI1|1!]

in other news:

 

[cj001f]

pussy and ass on the same page - I'm in heaven

[tvashtarkatena]

If you're good enough on a keyboard you'll get both.