I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
That last sentence could not be a more apt indictment of Bush's failure to go to any funerals.
I just saved that to disk.
Somebody email remind me in a month, we'll see if The Standard keeps that one on the www.
Seems like a rather snide comment in there about "with a woman who's name you could pronounce."
They can't pronounce Fatima? Or Sabria? or Naama?
And they call the liberal media elitist.
Is it possibly, finally sinking in that any righter with self-respect needs to divorce themselves from the idiots on thier side?
This is gist of the problem with chickenhawks--not that vets have a better idea of how the military works (FDR, a non-vet, did great; JFK, the PT 109 hero, landed us in the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam). It's that the difference between a leader and a con-artist is the latter's unwillingness to take on risks and sacrifices he insists others take--i.e., he doesn't see those who make those sacrifices as his fellow Americans--he sees them as patsies.
Maybe *this* is why they're sending W to Iraq. Heckofa big piece of flypaper.
Seems like a rather snide comment in there about "with a woman who's name you could pronounce."
They can't pronounce Fatima? Or Sabria? or Naama?
And they call the liberal media elitist.
Well, yeah. We tend to actually try to learn things, not merely get and flaunt the degree.
I was struck by the fact that it had to be "a woman whose name you could pronounce". Isn't the most famous GI in this little adventure Jessica Lynch? (Insert conspiracy theory about the SCLM discrediting her through speculation about her sexuality here.)
Not to mention the fact that I'm more used to seeing the phrase "conjugal visit" in reference to prisoners, which I'm sure some of the troops in Iraq are beginning to feel like....
Still, I must admit that it's refreshing to see someone on that side of the debate, especially at the Standard, using some rationality and finding BushCo's bulls**t wanting....
The Weekly "Standard" is an alternate universe. It also defies free-market gravity by continuing exist despite null readership. It's authors must pray to Murdoch five times daily.
If this is what's coming from the pro-Bush, yea-war crowd, then there's some serious worm-turning going on.
Molly, JFK didn't get you guys into Vietnam, unless JFK was pulling some mighty long strings back in 1953 or so. He did, however, turn up the flame.
Otherwise, I must admit this is a very strange article.
In light of the Flypaper Theory, it has suddenly occurred to me that, with just a little bit of foresight, and for much less than $87,000,000,000, we could have simply moved the World Trade Center to Baghdad back in 2000, and saved everyone a lot of trouble. Uday and Qusay could have set up a swinging bachelor pad in Windows on the World; New Yorkers could have gotten a new WTC to hate until it, too, finally became an institution; and the whole thing would have confused Osama bin Laden so much that he would have been forced to go hide in a mountain cave somewhere for a couple of years to figure it all out.
...Of course, Dubya would then have claimed that the two towers were being used as missile silos and invaded anyway ("Do you want the smoking gun to come in the form of a snow globe from the gift shop?").
Oh well.
Ray Radlein is wasting our time. Consider that OBL was against Saddam before he said one word against us; Saddam was secular, a better challenge to the religionists' (ours and theirs) stereotype of all Muslims as mindlessly devout, than anything the US could ever do. OBL would have no problem attacking Iraq; he exorted Iraqis to kill Saddam in a tape our scrupulously honest government says was pro-Saddamite.
I had to look up from reading that article 4 times to make sure it was really the Standard.
As I said when I heard the result of the 2000 election mass: Now the US will be shoved vigorously left. Every good rightist who isn't a moron or a coward now knows how unforgivable Bush's economic "policies" are, and every true patriot will now remember the Iraqi lies.
George Packer writes in a painful reminder from Baghdad, "All the soldiers suffer from the stress of heat, long days, lack of sleep, homesickness, the constant threat of attack . . . and the simple fact that there are nowhere near enough of them to do the tasks they've been given."
In other words, they're no different than any other working stiff in the current Bush economy, where one is asked to do more than he can for long hours at minimum salary, all for the guys on the top who, because they never get their hands dirty, not ever rub elbows with anyone doing the real work, have no idea of what the work entails and thus think the guys who do it aren't doing enough.
Didn't young Mr. Labash also do the interview where he talked admiringly about Tucker Carlson's ability to go on the air and talk in depth about things he knew absolutely nothing about, and about how the whole punditry racket was really just some sort of clever parlor game, as if he were some sort of radical postmodernist?
Something tells us this guy's career is about to get very short very fast.
and no sandstorms in indiana. tornados, yes. sandstorms, no.
bet that sand gets everywhere.
For non-Americans, will some kind person do a 2-sentence explanation of what/ who/ where the Weekly Standard is, and why this (sharp and witty) article is surprising?
The W Standard is a right-wingnut publication propped up by Rupert "fair and balanced" Murdock. It's editor, W Kristol, is one of the original neo-CONS pushing to overthrow Saddam and invade Iraq long before 9/11. That's why any critical artical of W or Iraq is so amazing!
bigvic
Thanks!
So Mr Kristol wouldn't be amused by this morning's headlines in The Independent (UK) and the Daily Mirror?
"The Turkey Has Landed".
We have entered Bizarro World.
Did lefties hack the Weakly Standard? Goodness gracious, I still cannot believe I read this on its web server. Was it one of those "renew your eBay info and give us your credit card" scam things?
(knocks on wood) Did the Scalia Five admit their wrongdoing and will Al Gore Jr. soon arrive in Washington for his inauguration?
That's why any critical artical of W or Iraq is so amazing!
Actually, it had originally endorsed John McCain for President.
Arthur-agree on face of it but really, the whole guerillas lying in wait to slit your throat or bomb thing, would these be industrial accidents made more common by deregulation? I mean, the whole war thing, Arthur. But otherwise a good point-the blue collar crowd provides the fodder for work and for war, and they are not so different.
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