Saturday, March 6, 2010

"Liz Cheney isn't careful about the words she throws around. She uses terrorist and killer the way normal people use words like salt and pepper."

Are Riled Bill Kristol and Big Dick Cheney's daughter Liz trying to channel the spirit of McCarthy by accusing members of the Department of Justice of being terrorists (= 1950s communists)? Are they not aware that John Adams defended the British soldiers accused of committing the Boston Massacre?
http://www.slate.com/id/2246903/

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Back in the fall of 2003, I was in London for an conference and I took a stroll around the neighborhood near my hotel. At one point I turned a corner and saw a massive, looming building, surrounded with various barriers and fences and looking for all the world like an updated version of a medieval castle. "What's that?" I wondered, and wandered over to investigate. It was the U.S. Embassy, of course, and I was struck by how forbidding and unwelcoming it was. It seemed to me to be a vivid physical symbol of a powerful Empire striving to keep the outside world at bay."
Steve Walt

Iran is not a threat, not a problem. Fear-mongering about Iran now is just the same as it was for Iraq in 2003.
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/05/how_not_to_contain_iran

Has the Powell Doctrine been replaced by the Mullen Doctrine?
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/05/this_week_at_war_the_powell_doctrine_is_dead

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