No Iran attack? Don’t be so sure …
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
12/05/07
The NIE seems to have unhinged the lesser neocons, who are reduced to the sort of noises a small mammal makes when cornered. Norman Podhoretz, however, is quite a different story: his contribution to the ‘debate’ is a perfect gem of the purest nihilism, a textbook example of Bizarro World logic. According to Podhoretz, since the last NIE was wrong, this one cannot be right. They were wrong then, he wails, so how can we trust them now? This principle, applied to, say, the realm of science, would ensure that no progress, no advance on the road to truth, no technological or theoretical innovation would ever be possible, because, after all, scientists have been wrong before. But truth is not Podhoretz’s concern: he’s already determined, a priori, that the truth is whatever he says it is...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12005
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Podhoretz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
by Justin Raimondo
12/05/07
The NIE seems to have unhinged the lesser neocons, who are reduced to the sort of noises a small mammal makes when cornered. Norman Podhoretz, however, is quite a different story: his contribution to the ‘debate’ is a perfect gem of the purest nihilism, a textbook example of Bizarro World logic. According to Podhoretz, since the last NIE was wrong, this one cannot be right. They were wrong then, he wails, so how can we trust them now? This principle, applied to, say, the realm of science, would ensure that no progress, no advance on the road to truth, no technological or theoretical innovation would ever be possible, because, after all, scientists have been wrong before. But truth is not Podhoretz’s concern: he’s already determined, a priori, that the truth is whatever he says it is...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12005
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Podhoretz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
rudkla - 5. Dez, 17:00
