War with Iran
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
08/29/07
Buckley shocked his fellows when he admitted ‘one can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed’ and urged on the administration and his fellow conservatives ‘the acknowledgment of defeat.’ Ah, but not VDH and his fellow fantasists, including Buckley’s epigones over at National Review, who are stubbornly hewing to the neoconservative line. Immune to evidence, however vivid, that their premises and ideological theories are not only wrong but actively harmful to American interests in the Middle East and worldwide, these people — the neocon ‘dead-enders,’ to borrow one of Donald Rumsfeld’s favorite phrases — are quite simply crackpots. They are like proponents of the Flat Earth theory, or advocates of phrenology: in the face of all evidence to the contrary — mountains of it — they hold that the ‘real truth’ (about the earth’s flatness, the ’scientific’ validity of phrenology, all the ‘progress’ we’re making in Iraq) is being ’suppressed’...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11521
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
by Justin Raimondo
08/29/07
Buckley shocked his fellows when he admitted ‘one can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed’ and urged on the administration and his fellow conservatives ‘the acknowledgment of defeat.’ Ah, but not VDH and his fellow fantasists, including Buckley’s epigones over at National Review, who are stubbornly hewing to the neoconservative line. Immune to evidence, however vivid, that their premises and ideological theories are not only wrong but actively harmful to American interests in the Middle East and worldwide, these people — the neocon ‘dead-enders,’ to borrow one of Donald Rumsfeld’s favorite phrases — are quite simply crackpots. They are like proponents of the Flat Earth theory, or advocates of phrenology: in the face of all evidence to the contrary — mountains of it — they hold that the ‘real truth’ (about the earth’s flatness, the ’scientific’ validity of phrenology, all the ‘progress’ we’re making in Iraq) is being ’suppressed’...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11521
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
rudkla - 29. Aug, 11:50
