So David Ignatius' column is pretty standard chin-scratchery, full of official-line half-truths about Iranian involvement in Iraq, which would of course be otherwise free of foreign influence, along the standard American op-ed line that views killing thousands of people in military action as a domestic political issue along the lines of a gas-tax holiday or a crazy negro preacher, as you can see here:
How would a U.S.-Iran confrontation play out in the campaign? Obviously, that depends on how you read the American political mood. Usually, we assume that the nation rallies around the party of war, but that's less certain in this case. America is war-weary, and it mistrusts President Bush. So a military skirmish with Iran might backfire, adding to public dissent -- much as happened with the Nixon administration's attack on Viet Cong sanctuaries in Cambodia in 1970.How would it play out in the campaign? How about how would it play out in Iran? The problem with Nixon's "attack on Viet Cong sanctuaries"--and, really? is that still the line in Washington?--wasn't that it "backfired" politically for the Trickster; the problem with Nixon's bombing campaign in Cambodia was that we carpet-bombed a half-million peasants into flaming oblivion. But look, a nigger said America engages in terrorism! Get him!
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Where the fuck is everyone?
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"Mommy, mommy, make the bad man go away. I'm afraid of him".
RTR
Well at least there has only been 4000 casualties in Iraq...
I recall back in '04 and '06 how the opeds were abuzz with speculation about how Iraqis perceived our elections and what they thought of the candidates. I found this to be pure narcissism, as though they give a shit. America is incapable of imagining that anyone anywhere is not paying rapt attention to all things America. When we look across the Pacific or Atlantic, all we see is our reflection in the water.
This is just another manifestation of this narcissism
justin,
my gf and I were just talking about this the other night (she grew up in Hong Kong, so she isn't American per se and thank God for that), and while she doesn't agree with me that our empire is exceptionally bloodthirsty from a historical perspective (I've since conceded the point), she does agree that no other culture on the planet is filled with such narcissistic creatures from top to bottom. Chinese peasants don't consider themselves special or exceptional, but you can find the lowest of low white trash motherfuckers at the flea market, and I guarantee you that land monster will tell you that simply by virtue of being dropped from his maw's cooter in the United States Of America, he or she is a special, unique little snowflake who has a better life than anyone else on the planet and if you don't like it you can giiiiit out.
Lucky you, Asian women are so beautiful... (And that includes Indian and especially Persian women.)
justin,
Oh, she's not Asian, her pappy was the editor of the Asian Wall Street journal so she spent most of her childhood in Tokyo and Hong Kong. But still, in sensibility and tempermanent, she's as un-American as you can get, and man, is it ever refreshing.
tempermanent? wtf is that, an angry perm? man, my typing is the shits today.
War is an abstraction in the United States. It is not seen nor heard. But it must be wonderful.
whoa this is crazy talk; i should see if erin4iran is available ...
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