The rule of the “experts”
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
05/11/09
[N]ow that the neocons have been driven out of town on a rail — supposedly — we have a new bunch of Official Experts in town. And if you hated the Project for a New American Century you’re going to despise the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the freshly minted Washington think-tank that seems to have been granted the foreign policy franchise by the Obama administration. … These left-neocons have their own cadre of experts, who are trotted out to imbue our current wrong-headed policy of escalating the Afghan war and dragging in Pakistan with an aura of faux credibility. Prominent among these is Tom Ricks, the Washington Post’s Pentagon correspondent and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Like most of our vaunted experts, Ricks hates having his credibility challenged, and he especially hates it when … well, let him tell it …
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/10/the-rule-of-the-experts/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Project+for+a+New+American+Century
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Center+for+a+New+American+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
by Justin Raimondo
05/11/09
[N]ow that the neocons have been driven out of town on a rail — supposedly — we have a new bunch of Official Experts in town. And if you hated the Project for a New American Century you’re going to despise the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the freshly minted Washington think-tank that seems to have been granted the foreign policy franchise by the Obama administration. … These left-neocons have their own cadre of experts, who are trotted out to imbue our current wrong-headed policy of escalating the Afghan war and dragging in Pakistan with an aura of faux credibility. Prominent among these is Tom Ricks, the Washington Post’s Pentagon correspondent and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Like most of our vaunted experts, Ricks hates having his credibility challenged, and he especially hates it when … well, let him tell it …
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/05/10/the-rule-of-the-experts/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Project+for+a+New+American+Century
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Center+for+a+New+American+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
rudkla - 11. Mai, 09:14
