That's just one of the not-so-new revelations that aren't generally acknowledged in polite circles, but which the New York Times just blabbed to the universe.
What's even more revealing is the tone of unapologetic belief in American Exceptionalism that permeates the article.
Not that there's anything new about that. What's remarkable is that in this week of a rapidly disintegrating war effort in Afghanistan this kind of chest-thumping isn't more muted.
After having made a complete mess of both Iraq and Afghanistan, America's newspaper of record operates under the assumption that it is a self-evident truth that it is America's unique mission in the world to monitor, threaten, intimidate, cajole, and otherwise bully anyone of whom our ruling class does not approve.
The Times at least puts a little lipstick on this pig. For sheer unadulterated jingoistic war talk find yourself a transcript of the exchange between Senator Joe Lieberman and Admiral Jonathan Greenert at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings this past Thursday.
Greenert and Lieberman seem to believe war is on its way.
We're just not sure of the timing.
Showing posts with label IAEA. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Fox's Bill O'Reilly sez GOP race not cool with old white guys
And he had three old white guys on his show just to prove his point.
Sucks to be you, Bill. Must hurt a lot to see the unwhite old guys taking over the roost.
One of the issues Bill was particularly incensed about was those Persian towel-heads giving us the finger about their nuke program.
Guess I'm a bit of a traitor in the incensed-old-white-guy ranks.
As an old white guy, I think it's dispicable that anyone would want nukes.
Nukes have been nothing but bad news ever since the US tried off a couple on Japan back in the WW 2.
That was enough for me. Ever since, I've thought it was pretty obvious that nobody should have any.
But the nuke club keeps expanding. The Russians needed them to balance out the US. The Chinese needed them to balance out the Russians. The Indians and the Pakistanis needed them to balance out the Pakistanis and the Indians.
And now the towellers in Iran think they need them to balance off the Israelis.
Well, when you think about it for a moment, they probably do.
The IAEA nuke cops are crawling all over Iran as I write this.
They steer clear of Israel.
Why?
And that's a question that "No-spin Bill" will never even have on his radar.
Sucks to be you, Bill. Must hurt a lot to see the unwhite old guys taking over the roost.
One of the issues Bill was particularly incensed about was those Persian towel-heads giving us the finger about their nuke program.
Guess I'm a bit of a traitor in the incensed-old-white-guy ranks.
As an old white guy, I think it's dispicable that anyone would want nukes.
Nukes have been nothing but bad news ever since the US tried off a couple on Japan back in the WW 2.
That was enough for me. Ever since, I've thought it was pretty obvious that nobody should have any.
But the nuke club keeps expanding. The Russians needed them to balance out the US. The Chinese needed them to balance out the Russians. The Indians and the Pakistanis needed them to balance out the Pakistanis and the Indians.
And now the towellers in Iran think they need them to balance off the Israelis.
Well, when you think about it for a moment, they probably do.
The IAEA nuke cops are crawling all over Iran as I write this.
They steer clear of Israel.
Why?
And that's a question that "No-spin Bill" will never even have on his radar.
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