July 8, 2006 at 19:59:47

The Washington Post's War-mongering Scribe

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"The fact is that in the Arab World, they understand that they have suffered the most significant, and in their eyes, humiliating defeat since the Six Day War. There are tyrants throughout the region who sit uneasily on their thrones. All of them have seen the statues toppled in Baghdad, and they know that their citizens also have seen those statues, and they know that the statues outside the windows of those who saw it in Cairo, and in Damascus, and elsewhere also can be toppled."

"What we have produced is a revolution in military doctrine, a revolution in national security doctrine, and also a revolution in the region and the world in understanding what the power of the United States is and what it is capable of doing."

"We ought to make the Syrians think that anything is possible.
We are in a position, after the shock and awe of this war, of influencing the behavior, if not the composition, of regimes in Iran, Syria and elsewhere. We ought to use that momentum. We ought to use the uncertainty in the region to try to impose changes in behavior on regimes like that in Damascus and leave them wondering and thinking."

"The war on terrorism many people believe is an endless war. It is not. It is a war which is winnable. ....I would venture a guess that this war is winnable in five years."

"The brilliance of the campaign".... "the deep understanding of the nature of totalitarian regimes".... "a revolution in military doctrine."

Perhaps, we should keep in mind Krauthammer's unreserved praise for the war as Bush prepares to negotiate a settlement with the resolute Ba'athist resistance.

Accountability for Journalists?

Iraq is in ruins. The "cradle of civilization" has been decimated by US ordinance and a savage occupation. The primary infrastructure is devastated, clean water is scarce, the electrical-grid is severely damaged, business has been disrupted, the society is in tatters, death squads control the streets, and depleted uranium will continue to produce cancer and birth-defects into the next millennium. These are the costs of Krauthammer's war in real terms.

Fredrick Nietzsche said, "Ideas are the explosive material that shape history." Men, like Krauthammer, who crafted the perfidious ideology which led the country to war, are equally responsible for its appalling consequences. His bloody fingerprints are all over the 100,000 Iraqis and 2,600 American servicemen who died in this gratuitous act of aggression. It is shocking that the Washington Post hasn't thrown Krauthammer out on the street and given his seat to a responsible adult who knows the difference between foreign policy and the malignant fantasies of buffoons.

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