As Full Of Crap

As one human being could be. Today, I mean Tom Friedman.  Via Atrios, and thanks to Virtually Speaking, this little contrast.  Friedman now:

" the decision to go to war stemmed, for me, from a different choice: Could we collaborate with the people of Iraq to change the political trajectory of this pivotal state in the heart of the Arab world and help tilt it and the region onto a democratizing track?"

Friedman, as you will remember, then:

"What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, “Which part of this sentence don’t you understand?”   Well, Suck. On. This...We could have hit Saudi Arabia. It was part of that bubble. Could have hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. That’s the real truth…"

See, it's not just the Republicans.  People like Tom Friedman, hailed far and wide as a responsible, even liberal (my God) journalist, felt free then to indulge in their infantile, homicidal fantasies, and now entitle themselves to lie their asses off to cover up the fact.  Oh yes, we were there to bring democracy to the people of the Middle East.  Certainly we were.

We were apparently there so immature psychopaths like Tom Friedman could have their jolly old time with the lives of other sorts of people, and now it is apparently our responsibility to forget all that, so they can get back to doing it again as soon as possible.

Comments

Grung_e_Gene said…
Friedman (and Hitchens) were always called "liberal" so the Republicon War Machine could retort any anti-war argument with, 'Well, even the liberal writer XXX thinks we should invade Iraq...'

It was tawdy then, it remains tawdy now. Or to be more correct Fuck all you Chicken Hawk Warmongers!
Dave Dubya said…
Those jerks are corporatist Neocons, not liberals. Even though Bush and Cheney are out of office, Neocons are our greatest threat to peace. The Neocon menace is alive and well and their ideology is the path to eternal war and fascism.

Their loyalty is to wealth, AIPAC and the Israeli radical Right, not to the citizens of the US.
Magpie said…
Iraq was the perfect embodiment of the neocon philosophy that American exceptionalism is nothing less than the manifest destiny of America to rule the world through force of arms or associated coercion.

No less perfect in that it was extremely costly in American lives, because neocons delude themselves that they represent a ‘moral’ force. The greater the cost and sacrifice, the more ‘moral’ the mission. That’s how they think.

It is no different to Hitler’s demanding the 6th Army die to the last man at Stalingrad. It is the belief that catastrophic losses are redemptive and that they presage final victory.

For all those years of unfettered neocon perversion of US foreign policy, I’m only amazed it wasn’t actually worse, because, incredibly, it could have been.

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