The silenced majority
The American Prospect
by Harold Meyerson
10/11/07
We are condemned, the smart guys tell us, to stay in Iraq. None of the three leading Democratic presidential candidates will pledge to remove all U.S. forces by 2013. In the think-tankocracy of Washington, defense intellectuals of both parties argue that pulling up stakes is not an option. ‘Some of the people mentioned as possible defense secretaries under a Democratic White House,’ the Post’s Thomas E. Ricks reported last month, ‘offer a vision of a U.S. presence in Iraq that does not differ markedly from that of the Bush administration.’ … Everyone’s on board except the American people, but what do they matter?
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_silenced_majority
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson
by Harold Meyerson
10/11/07
We are condemned, the smart guys tell us, to stay in Iraq. None of the three leading Democratic presidential candidates will pledge to remove all U.S. forces by 2013. In the think-tankocracy of Washington, defense intellectuals of both parties argue that pulling up stakes is not an option. ‘Some of the people mentioned as possible defense secretaries under a Democratic White House,’ the Post’s Thomas E. Ricks reported last month, ‘offer a vision of a U.S. presence in Iraq that does not differ markedly from that of the Bush administration.’ … Everyone’s on board except the American people, but what do they matter?
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_silenced_majority
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harold+Meyerson
rudkla - 12. Okt, 15:52
