Bill Kristol: Popularity Isn't Everything »
Posted By Beau7890 12 months ago in Political News
A cogent defense of his action -- and one that shows a well-considered sense of justice. ("I thought he merited it.") Indeed, if justice is seeking to give each his due, one might say that Dick Cheney aspires to being a just man. And a thoughtful one, because he knows that justice is sometimes too harsh, and should be tempered by civility.
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That's this guy Kristol's defending...
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Goppy11 months, 4 weeks ago
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Ha ha ... I'm sure you are referring to the 12/19/08 cartoon.
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Yes ... Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby ... these men have certainly given our nation an international black eye.
The reason I specify these four men is for one reason. They are all signatories of the Neo-Conservative Statement of Principles which is located here ---> http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinc...
And it was Bill Kristol who gave words to this ideology. Bill Kristol who was the 'brains' behind the New American Century.
If one reads the Statement of Principles, - one actually sees how these men view the world through their Cold Warrior Glasses.
These are men who were conditioned to view the world in the starkest of terms ... completely black and white ... black was Communism, white is Democracy.
Everything else was eliminated from sight by their self induced fog.
The threat of advancing Communism defined the essence of these men.
When that menace fell ... the Neo-Conservative strode onto the stage as a conquering hero ... at least ... to themselves.
The Statement of Principles outlines a philosophy that says we must "GO ... AMERICA MUST FILL IN THE VOID LEFT BY THE USSR's DEMISE!"
The problem is .... the world HATED the Soviet Union. They used brutal tactics. In addition to their brutality ... they had no interest in negotiation. Their will was achieved through force.
What irony then, that these men, free now to implement their own ideology ... seemed to have fashioned their international foreign policy on the very subject of their hatred ... the Soviet Union ... ... ... where brutal force, torture, refusal to negotiate, ... ... ... were the methods of choice.
All these men needed was a figurehead to work their magic.
They found him in George W. Bush .. .. .. a man who was willing to absorb like a sponge, the long accumulated deviancy of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Libby.
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NoWayMan11 months, 4 weeks ago
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kristol is a doosh.
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why anyone would listen to anything this guy has to say is beyond me. he's been incorrect time and time again, he continually mistakes simple observation for wisdom, and he's been on the wrong side of history for as long as I can remember.
one day soon, kristol will be nothing more than the answer to an obscure trivia question. count on it.
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